Play One on TV

David recently highlighted a Marketleap site that claims to rate your “Link Popularity.” Being ever the glutton for punishment, I submitted my site to see what could happen. I opted for a check in the “Humor” category, if for no other reason than I wanted to see how much market share I was stealing from Dilbert.

At first, I was quite pleased to find myself listed as having an “average presence.” But a careful scrutiny of the chart quickly revealed that “average” isn’t in the middle of the chart — it’s at the start. The “participation trophy” meets the blogosphere.

To make myself feel better, I took a glance at the heavy hitters and found the expected players — engrish.com, comedycentral.com, theonion.com, and yes, dilbert.com.

What was astounding was that all of these sites, even Dilbert, were trumped by none other than whitehouse.gov. That’s right — our Commander-in-Chief is raking in the laughs by the bucketfull.

This strikes me as a bit unsporting. After all, we’ve already seen the lengths that they’ll go for a laugh — it’s easy to be funny when you have diplomatic immunity.