To change the dark undertones of my prior post:

As do most bloggers, I search through Technorati pretty often. I find it interesting to keep in touch with the pulse of the blogosphere and its readers (assuming that the bloggers know what their readers really want). I continue to sit slack-jawed at the utter waste of time that the average American spends on its celebrities.

Here’s the Top 10 List as of last night:

Ron Paul
YouTube
GTD
Galilea Montijo
Railsconf
Paris Hilton
Mario Lopez
Murray Waas
Videos
Starcraft 2

Let’s break this down:

Ron Paul - The independent candidate that bloggers and liberals just love to love.
YouTube - The video sharing site that continues to make headlines for its popularity.
GTD - Stands for Getting Things Done and is an action management method, and the title of a book by David Allen.
Galilea Montijo - Evidently, there was a “naughty” video where she, purportedly, took the star turn.
Railsconf - A programming conference. Tech stuff.
Paris Hilton - No explanation needed.
Mario Lopez - Saved By The Bell, Dancing With The Stars, and now trying to host The Price is Right.
Murray Waas - Political columnist with a blog.
Videos - Too generic, but let’s assume the worst.
Starcraft 2 - Beta game that’s rumored to be released towards the end of the year.

Score it:

Politics - 2
Technology - 2
Entertainment - 6

or

Enertainment/Celebrity continues to rule the blogging universe. So I decided to take a look at the search engines for some corroborating evidence and this is what I saw (from Yahoo’s keyword search tool): In the month of January 2007, the word “Paris Hilton” was searched for over 16.9mm times. However, the word “finance” was searched for UNDER 1mm times. It thus turns out that Paris Hilton is 17 times more popular than that which affects us each and every day.

It’s no wonder that America is having an “issue.”

I understand the obvious irony that occurred the second I hit the “publish” button (actually, when I thought of writing this column)…

Ha!