August 14, 2003

Warning: Petty Post

[whining and navel gazing]

I'm glad the story about a Milwaukee human shield being fined is getting around the blogosphere. Mr. Clancy's should get no sympathy for backing Saddam. What irritates me is RWN and Cam Edwards both linked to the story with no trackback or hat tip to me.

Do I know those two webloggers got the link from TAM? No. With stuff like Google's new News Alerts they may have gotten it somewhere else. According to Technorati, only two other weblogs linked to the Clancy story. Since the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is my local paper, and RWN and Cam Edwards both link to TAM they had an opportunity to read my post.

I'm not mad at either John or Cam. With all the news they're tapped into they just may have forgot the source. I've done it too. What bugs me is I felt this story had legs and would spread throughout the blogosphere. It's made it to the Volokh Conspiracy, and I would have loved to get a bunch of traffic from there.

How come I have a feeling I'll be submitting this post to next week's Bonfire?

[/whining and navel gazing]