I've recently discovered Google Insight and am using it for all sorts of pointless trend analysis attempts - to see what's hot, and what isn't.

And apparently, LiveJournal is not so hot any more. Searches for it have declined by more than half since its peak in January 2005. This suggests that the community of LiveJournal users isn't really growing (with the possible exception of Russian Spambots), and that interest is slowly waning.

Blogging itself seems fairly stable at the moment, so there must be other trends filling up the void caused by the reduction of LiveJournal.Twitter, possibly - but what else is out there?

This image of Obama allegedly "checking out" a 16 year old girl at the G8 summit in Italy is currently making the rounds:



I want you all to bookmark this video showing what really happened, as I know, I just know that this image will be used for "swiftboating" attempts against Obama until the end of the next American presidential elections at the very least.

The Legend is already forming...