Letters…we get letters:
Hey, found your blog today [while] researching the ACLU. I see we are on the same page. I will be linking to an article you had on the ACLU late tonight. How would one go about being added to your blogroll? I would gladly reciprocate with a link back to yours. Let me know if you are interested.Thanks,
Stop the ACLU
Because, of course, I just loathe the ACLU.
This is not the first time that, based on one blogpost, someone who ought to hate my blog thinks they love it, or vice versa.
It is, however, the first time that such an incident has happened via a mass linkwhoring. What exactly is the logic of a “blogburst” such as this? What do Stop the ACLU and its fans accomplish by getting people (28 and counting) to post exactly the same text on different blogs?
Cross-posting is one thing — I’ve done that myself on more than one occasion. But why have so many people post the exact same entry to their own blogs? Why not just say, like normal people, “Stop the ACLU has a good post up about ___”? Because they have nothing to add? Then why bother?
The first rule of good blogging is good research, which includes not blindly embracing every fleeting reference to your cause. Not all of us are monotonic drones. I may agree with you in this instance, but tomorrow is another day. Especially when you’re a far-right or far-left blogger. This has always been the case for libertarians, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
The second rule of good blogging is to have something to say. Blogbursts are not blogging — they’re worthless parroting.
In any event, if these are the kind of bloggers who are trying to “Stop the ACLU,” then the ACLU is in no imminent danger.
