Blog Notice: Searching For John McCain

Today something was posted on Daily Kos, which is going to lead to some minor changes in my blog. Here is the gist:

Searching for John McCain is a massive, online activism campaign designed to make at least ten million non-partisan, poll-tested, on-message voter contacts that reveal the damning truth about John McCain entirely through mainstream news reports and McCain’s own words. Through mass blogger participation and the use of embedded hyperlinks, Searching for John McCain will connect millions of curious, low-information swing voters to negative, mainstream news articles about John McCain without 99% of those voters even knowing that Searching for John McCain exists.

To learn how to participate, and to learn how it will work, read on into the extended entry.

Essentially it is a strategy to make it more likely that casual internet searchers who type in "John McCain" will find news articles which expose his true nature. These aren't opinion pieces or exaggerations, they are just mainstream news articles that accurately reflect John McCain's positions, but might otherwise be subsumed by less informative or important results. Read the original post if you'd like to know more about the project.

So how this affects my blog. Basically, from now until some time in the future, every time I mention John McCain, I'll link his name to one of nine news articles about him. Unlike my normal links, these generally won't be relevant to the content of what I'm writing about, so don't get confused if you click on "John McCain" in a post about how ignorant John McCain is on foreign policy, and find it is an article about the minimum wage. Please note, though, that if I have a link that covers more than just McCain's name, like the one in the preceding sentence, it isn't part of this project, it is a real link worth checking out.

I'll also be posting a new McCain blogroll at the bottom of the right side of my blog listing all of the articles. If you'd like to join the effort, read the original post, and jump right in!

It should be interesting to see how this goes..