Congrats on the link from MSM. I saw it and popped over to see what you had on the subject.

I think Goldberg has Jesse Jackson too high up on the list (#4). While true a few years ago, I think Jackson's star is waning.

And George Soros doesn't make the top ten?

Well, thanks, but I'm not so excited about getting featured by the Seattle Times as I am about the idea that it may be sinking in to the procedures of MSM dailies to actually LINK ALL BLOGS that they reference. Usually they just name them, possibly to avoid diverting traffic from the site.

I agree that Jesse Jackson should be bumped farther down because of his limited influence, but boy are his tactics atrocious.

I thought hotlinking was when someone links directly to one of your images, stealing your precious bandwidth.

Yeah, it's a link and not a hot link. That's linking someone's storage directly.
Congrats for getting the link. You don't seem so avowedly Republican to me.

The article says Goldberg wrote something about Courtney Love that is unprintable. Hard to believe Goldberg would, and hard to believe there's anything bad left to be printed about her.

"Hot link" refers to any active, dynamic link between two applications. Web slang has come to mean bandwith theft, but technically any "link" is a hot link.

HOT LINK, definition (see #4 in the second set)

(v.) (1) To bind together.
(2) In programming, the term link refers to execution of a linker.

(3) To paste a copy of an object into a document in such a way that it retains its connection with the original object. Updates to the original object can be reflected in the duplicate by updating the link.

(4) In spreadsheet programs, linking refers to the ability of a worksheet to take its data for particular cells from another worksheet. Two or more files are thus linked by common cells.

(n.) (1) In communications, a link is a line or channel over which data is transmitted.

(2) In data management systems, a link is a pointer to another record. You can connect one or more records by inserting links into them.

(3) In some operating systems (UNIX, for example), a link is a pointer to a file. Links make it possible to reference a file by several different names and to access a file without specifying a full path.

(4) In hypertext systems, such as the World Wide Web, a link is a reference to another document. Such links are sometimes called hot links because they take you to other document when you click on them.

More :

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hotlink

http://www.dailypress.com/services/dp-service-commonterms.htmlstory

Though slang has indeed come to mean bandwith theft:

http://www.free-webhosts.com/definition/hotlinking.php

I'll eliminate the word "hot" so as not to confuse anyone.

Deeplinking is the better term for bandwidth stealing (IMO). But hotlinking is so widely used that using hyperlink or just link makes a lot more sense.

Congrats. I guess I'll have to go get the book.

Thanks, but what's everyone congratulating me for?

Because you actually got recognition from the MSM instead of the customary (obligatory?) blissful ignorance towards bloggers.

Eh. Trying to put this matter-of-factly without sounding like (too much of) a pompous ass:

Seattle Times isn't that big a deal, and blogs no longer have to beg for crumbs or cred from the MSM. I probably sent as much traffic their way as they did mine, honestly. In terms of exposure, a link from Reynolds would be much more significant.

I happened to catch B. Goldberg on the radio (Sean Hannity's show... ugh, I know). He was ranting about how raunchy television is ruining America and how much he hates it when people tell him to "change the channel" when he encounters something he finds objectionable. His reason, paraphrased: "even if I change the channel, it's still out there, corrupting the country."

Maybe he'll add himself to the list for the second edition.