Huffington Post: Popularity Gauge
May 25, 2005 
Don’t leave it to me to try and figure out what Arianna Huffington’s blog-of-a-million-celebrity-voices represents or what respect it is supposed to garner or even why it exists.
However, it is a good way to get a bunch of people blogging that would otherwise have not chosen to share their mishapen, convulted, and sometimes thought-provoking entertaining thoughts. Welcome to blogging all you HuffPost blogging celebrities!
Okay, some of the posts have been interesting — some for their content, others just as a show of some of what’s going on in certain people’s minds.
I used to think groupblog Metafilter (the blog of a million voices) was fascinating in terms of a group blogging dynamic. But maybe HuffPost will relegate Metafilter to being known as “the blog of a million nobodies’ voices.” Not true, but that doesn’t matter, does it? Or maybe Metafilter will continue on as it has for the past years and HuffPost won’t draw anymore attention and quietly fade.
Who knows? For now, let’s just use the always non-reliable, always entertaining Alexa ranking as litmus test for HuffPost: 30,191. I’ll be comparing its ranking over time to see how popular it really does become.
P.S. Check out Bill Maher’s reaction to crazy Congressman Spencer Bachus’ call for his show to be cancelled over Maher’s “low-lying fruit” comment.
UPDATE (5/30): Now it’s up to 27,537.
UPDATE (6/5): A week later and it’s up to 25,242.
UPDATE (6/7): Now its jumping 1,000 spots a day to 23,407.
UPDATE (6/27/2006): What a difference a year makes: 1,276.
