April 20, 2005
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Wow. I just found out that this journal (http://barzelay.livejournal.com) is the 4th result in a google search for "barzelay". That seems very strange to me since there are thousands of people in the world with my surname, including hundreds of doctors, lawyers, and professors.
Also the singer/guitarist/bandleader/songwriter for Clem Snide, a really awesome indie-alt-folk-country-rock band (like if Bob Dylan channeled Andy Warhol's pop-culture references, and then Wilco covered it on Unplugged) that you should definitely listen to or download from me in zip format here since it's great stuff and I love it, is named Eef Barzelay. They've had a decent fanbase for several years now, and they're starting to get well-known with songs on compilations such as The Future Soundtrack For America (the one by MoveOn.org where all the proceeds went to progressive organizations), and they're all over college radio stations and headline their own tours and such. Anyway, this guy, Eef Barzelay, gets two results above this journal, but that's it.
Three results later is my staff bio on The Slant's site. That is a lot more expected. I can see why people link to The Slant (pagerank whoring). But it is seriously surprising that anyone links to this journal. I guess there's a lot of internal linkage, when people say things like "barzelay passed this meme to me," but then people usually link to "http://www.livejournal.com/users/barzelay/", not "http://barzelay.livejournal.com".
Any theories on the matter?
Posted at April 20, 2005 3:17 AM | Comments (0)
