Coming from the only end-of-year list worth perusing, the 27th Annual Top 8 NY Entities That Didn’t Exist:

Blogs: It was widely reported that “blog” was the most searched for term on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. What was not widely reported was that 99% of those requests came from a loop procedure written by Nick Denton, the English-type responsible for the proliferation of machine-blogs such as Gawker and Wonkette. When those machine-generated requests are taken out of the equation, the ranking of the term “blog” plummets to 9587, landing with a thud between “moist” and “unctuous.”

A blogosphere of idiots…that is what we all must be. Really, how many of you can claim that you looked up the word “BLOG” on the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary? Yet thousands upon thousands of postings were written upon the announcement of this allegedly most-coveted word. How very unctuous of Mr. Denton to pull such a publicity scheme, which I suppose is why he’s been so allegedly successful with his moguled blogharem.