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What do I think of The Huffington Post? Not much, certainly not enough to link to that site and increase its TTLB rating. It has been portrayed as a “celebrity blog”. There’s one problem. There are few that blog there that can reasonably be called celebrities and they’re drowned out by the masses of unknowns. I’ve searched through the entire archive, which is rather large considering the site hasn’t been around long. I found only three real bona fide celebrities, Robert Evans, Rob Reiner and John Cusack. There are two minor celebrities, Ellen DeGeneres and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Finally, a non-celebrity famous person, Bill Maher. The rest of the bloggers at Huffington are writers, politicians or idiots that happen to know Arianna.

Why have Bill Maher blog? He has a cable show that lets him voice his opinion. Ellen also has a show.

I just don’t understand the premise or strategy of Huffington Post. Each day there are more and more posts. It’s not uncommon for there to be more than 40 blog entries a day. At this time, there are 253 articles and the site was officially launched only six days ago. Who is actually going to read all those articles? These people need to get their own blogs. Instead of forming one site, they should’ve formed an alliance. Each getting their own sites and linking to each other.

I actually went over to Huffington Post looking for an article to discuss. I left disappointed. I have no interest in tearing apart poorly assembled thoughts or political statements. There’s no challenge and it’s completely pointless. Anyone that agrees with a Huffington article won’t listen to reason. That leaves the people that disagree and preaching to the choir sounds about as much fun as reading Huffington Post.

In order to claim control of the XML feed of my blog at Feedster, I need to post a specific link on the blog to prove it is my blog. It’s kind of annoying having to make a post just for this, but I suppose it’s a reasonable security measure to prevent people from claiming other people’s blogs.

I do have an idea how to keep this entry from being a total waste, a helpful hint to newer bloggers. A good way to get your blog indexed on more databases and subsequently get more traffic. Visit Ping-o-Matic! and submit your blog. Some of the services won’t work unless your site is configured properly. Don’t worry, the first time, select all the services and hit submit. It will tell you which services rejected the request and you can visit those sites to find out why.