Wizbang: When I originally put the Nick Berg video on one of my servers, it was as a service to the relatively small group of regular Wizbang! readers as well as the "extended readership."  ...then Google happened. I'll admit the search engines picked it up faster than I anticipated. My first instinct was to delink the video. But then it hit me. Everyone of these people that find "us" via google are new blogosphereonians. This is why we are here. We can do what the big guys can't.

Dude - you've got this so wrong in so many ways. I'm not sure what type of readers you have, so if you are catering to the same sick twisted people that traded "Faces of Death" video tapes back in the '80's then perhaps this might be a service for your readers. But to think that you are doing weblogging a service by attracting new "recruits" is completely off-base.

You are attracting people that are looking to satisfy their twisted curiousity and get an odd thrill from this sort of thing. You aren't recruiting new webloggers and the likelihood that these people are going to turn into devoted readers of your weblog is nil - unless you plan on keeping them coming back with more demented footage.

The circumstances that led up to this killing aren't known yet, and may never be - but this doesn't change the fact that Nick Berg is dead and you are looking to profit from this terrible act. Enjoy your notoriety if you can, but please, don't mislead yourself by thinking that you are doing me, weblogging or anyone really, a public service.

You are peddling someone else's tragedy in order to increase your profile. Be proud, hold your head up.

Great work.