ACCORDING TO BLOGPULSE, this Instapundit flood aid post was #2 in the blogosphere for 2005. #1 was a LiveJournal post that was removed by its author. I don’t know what it was about, but I’m guessing it was something sexy; sex usually outsells charity.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Amazingly enough, the post has nothing to do with sex. It was a script that allowed a LJ user to see who’s reading their journal without commenting (can you imagine how many bloggers would kill for something like that). It was an online flash mob that Russian LJists are famous for.

Russian Internet is a phenomenon in its own right, with the LiveJournal being analogous to the blogosphere in English. I think the post’s #1 ranking is the biggest achievement of the Russian people since the cosmonauts (I mean, it beats Kournikova).

Ah. Well, ego often beats even sex.