It seems that there is a grand experiment going on where bloggers are including the meaningless term Brrreeeport on their blogs in an attempt to make it the most popular term on Technorati and other search tools. It has worked, because brrreeeport is right now the third hottest tag, and the most popular search on Technorati.

Now, there are all sorts of people talking about it on their blog just to draw traffic. What a cheap trick. This is exactly what I described people might do with Jack Bauer a few weeks ago. How could anyone stoop to such a level?

With the return of 24, it seems like all anyone wants to do in the blogosphere is talk about Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland. “Jack Bauer” has been the most popular search term on Technorati the past few days since the four hour premiere on Fox.

Pretty soon, there will be people writing entries about Jack Bauer just to see how many people come visit their blog to read about Jack Bauer. And then, those people might look and see that Drew Barrymore is the second on the list behind Jack Bauer, so they will start writing blog entries about how Drew Barrymore is going to marry Jack Bauer. That would be really confusing, of course, because Drew Barrymore is real (at least we think she is) and Jack Bauer is fictional…OR IS HE? Maybe all those searches for Jack Bauer are people who are trying to find a real person named Jack Bauer who they thought was killed 18 months ago, and now they are wondering if instead he is holed up somewhere with Drew Barrymore.

Back to the point…somebody somewhere is probably writing a blog entry right now that mentions Jack Bauer and Drew Barrymore just to draw some traffic to their blog. That would be despicable.

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On Tuesday, Google labs created a new home page called GoogleX. They mentioned it on their blog. The look of it was based on Mac OS X. This madman tried it. This madman loved it.

This madman went back to try it yesterday, and it was gone! What the freak? All I got was a lousy message saying: “The requested URL was not found on this server.” How dare they tease us like this?

Thankfully, several sites have given us a GoogleX mirror so you can see it for yourself. Ain’t it pretty? This madman is almost smiling…almost.

Everyone has a blog these days. It’s another stupid trend that will die out in a few years. Blogs are the new pogs. We will make fun of them before you know it.

However, for a couple of raving madmen, it’s a pretty good way to point out all the stupid stuff that goes on out there. So…check us out…we have a blog now too. We might be raving madmen, but we have a worldwide audience.