Hugh Hewitt has some interesting ideas on disinformation and "Black Blog Ops", which we would like to see renamed "Blops". One can imagine the conversation - are you a blogger or a blopper?
But seriously, Hugh Hewitt mentions the sudden success of the Belmont Club. Now, honestly - would that blog have as much impact if the author were revealed to be Lewis Libby? I don't think so either, but how do you know it's not?
In a related vein, this chap at Esoteric Diatribes had a concern about the spreading of disinformation by way of Google bombs (and he had his own exemplary success with "Waffles").
And some folks are so sinister that they think they might succeed in spoofing other naifs using fake web-sites. Here is a fascinating tribute to an economics prof that illuminates this example.
The revolution will be blogged - but will you trust it?
UPDATE: In related news,we see that Google has been Google-bombed.
I don't think it would work, for the simple reason that blogs that have changed their minds on a candidate do not tend to change the minds of their readers, except for the changing their minds about visiting there. I know at least anecdotally that a lot of former readers of Andrew Sullivan's blog have stopped checking him. I haven't quite but I don't go there anywhere near as often and I ignore the anti-Bush stuff.
Posted by: Pat Curley | June 18, 2004 at 01:01 AM
Blops? lets leave the toilet humor to Howard Stern
Posted by: Clark | June 18, 2004 at 12:40 PM
You mean Lewis "Scooter" Libby?
Posted by: J Bowen | June 19, 2004 at 05:00 PM