Yahoo! is my home page but it's ticking me off. You know about how United Air Lines got hammered becaue some insomniac looked at a year-old story about their bankruptcy, and Google's algorithms treated it as a "most-viewed story" because of the hour, leading to a "War of the Worlds"-like lemming panic.
I suspect the same thing is going on with Yahoo's "Most blogged" list on their home page. Almost all of the "most-blogged" stories are from a site called "hotair.com" which is a vile compendium of nastiness and libel thrown against anyone to the political left of Rush Limbaugh. Obviously, these guys have made it a point to spin out a bunch of self-serving blogs for the sole purpose of getting on lists like the Yahoo one.
Don' trust anything you read on the internet, including that advice.
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