The Bhutto assassination has obscured my ability to figure out what else is going on in the world. Too much noise in the spectrum.
Nobody knows what will happen in Pakistan until patterns emerge among the disparate rioting throughout the country, which will take a couple of days to discern, at the very least. I wish people would be intellectually honest and shove the armchair quarterbacking in the meantime.
Look at today’s Buzztracker distribution of top location mentions throughout the blogosphere:
Today’s Top Locations
- Rawalpindi (14%)
- Washington (12%)
- Karachi (09%)
- Islamabad (05%)
- New York (05%)
- Beijing (04%)
- Toronto (03%)
- Peshawar (02%)
- Ottawa (02%)
- Hong Kong (02%)
30 percent of all city mentions (within the blogosphere covered by Buzztracker, which should be the vast majority) are: Rawalpindi, Karachi, Islamabad, and Peshawar. Come on.
Here’s what it was 4 days ago:
Today’s Top Locations
- Washington (06%)
- New York (06%)
- Gaza (05%)
- Baghdad (04%)
- Delhi (04%)
- London (03%)
- Melbourne (03%)
- Chicago (03%)
- Vatican (02%)
- Hiroshima (02%)
Important things are happening outside of Pakistan, but I can’t sift through the noise and find out what those things are.
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