I was about to say that I would not wish this bug that has had me down for the past week on anyone.
But, on second thought, realizing how little I’ve been able or even wanted to do over the past week I might suggest it for a few select groups beginning with the members of the US House and Senate.

I might start reading the New York Times more frequently again. I had put them way down my list many months ago when they started breaking links to their articles.
Now, new to me, but apparently circulating in some circles since last June is a method for creating links to NYT articles that have some staying power though the process isn’t as simple as one might hope and might require a change your preferred Times reading method.
So, thanks to Kevin Drum for this tutorial (Hat tip to Lisa Williams who gave Kevin the pointer).
Via Outside the Beltway.
Update (11/25): Mary at Pacific Views adds this tip:

Aaron Swarz has a site that provides a link generator for NY Times articles after June 23. This utility is quite nice and provides you an easy way to take a standard NYTimes link and create the USERLAND link that will work forever when linked into a blog.

I have not tested this yet.

Regular Technorati users may have noticed it getting increasingly behind.
James Joyner has the scoop including news of an infrastructure upgrade. Hey, given the number of weblogs and links Technorati is tracking I’m amazed it is staying within a couple days:

1,219,785 weblogs watched.
60,013,930 active links.
101,059,393 links tracked.

This post lost Michael Hanscom his job. See details here.
This seems to reflect some pretty deep paranoia over at MS. To think, they have smurfs who spend all their time looking for stuff like this to snuff out. Probably a training camp for the ashcroft justice department.
In the meantime, all of you who are not tenured academics or retired MS mizillionaires take note: MS may not be the only employer who might frown on something you say in your blog.
Via Brad DeLong.
Update (10/30): The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on this today.

Both Jaquandor at Byzantium’s Shores and Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light report a new p*rn scam targeted at blogs.
This is what the scammers have done as described by Teresa:

The other thing this supposed weblog has is a titanic blogroll some 3,500 entries long. It�s an utterly indiscriminate list. It links to conservative religious websites, and to weblogs in languages that don�t use the Roman alphabet and haven�t been transliterated, and to random pages on About.com, and to the official website of the California Sociological Association, to name but a few.
It looks like the proprietors harvested the addresses of everything that looked like a weblog and tossed them into their list, not even pausing to weed out the false positives. The links go out, the webloggers learn via Technorati or some comparable site that they�ve been linked to, and they go to have a look.

I won’t give the scammers a link or name their site. Just be aware that if you have a new linking site that you don’t recognize and that has a title that suggests you might get to read about someone’s carnal adventures then you will get some apparently poorly done versions of that and a whole bunch of p*rn advertising.