March 19th Iraq War Blogswarm
Warning: Somewhere between 95-99% off topic post coming up.
I get emails from various folks asking for backlinks to their blogs on a semi-regular basis – not that I mind them, if you are pointing me to something with good content, I may subscribe by way of RSS, and if you have good content relevant to mine, I will probably point to your posts in an upcoming post of mine.
By the same token, if you have no real original content – and the people I’m talking about know who they don’t – please refrain from spamming me.
In the meantime, and definitely off topic, or at least not very criminal defense related comes the March 19th Iraq War Blogswarm project. Those looking for backlinks to their blogs need merely write a post this Wednesday and they will get that oh-so-coveted backlink. (The page is fairly new, and thus shows no Google PR for now, for those who care about such things, but I think the fact that it’s been up one month and already shows 863 backlinks means it’ll have some Google juice.)
The blog authors even give folks ideas about what to write:
Here are some things you might want to consider if you are having difficulty making up your mind (on what to post about):
- Attend an anti-war event and report on it.
- Interview military families and veterans.
- NEW IDEA: Blog reactions to Pacifica's Live Radio Coverage of the Winter Soldier testimony by Iraq Vets would be of great interest. Coverage from the event in Washington, DC would be great too. This event deserves all the coverage it can possibly get.
- Examine current plans and the rather shadowy oil laws as well as long term military bases.
- Compare and contrast candidates stated intentions on what they claim they will do with their records.
- Publicize online action alerts by pro-peace organizations.
- Discuss the economic impacts of the war on people in Iraq and/or western countries.
- Discuss the casualties on both sides.
- Explore issues and impacts often ignored by most media outlets.
- Analyze war propaganda.
I’ve got my own ideas on how to make my post relevant to my ‘niche’ – but I’m going to keep that to myself, for now.
