Well, the funny thing is that the fellow, in the story, Allen Kraus, has a web page. It's just that no one links to it. Well, not until I wrote that piece.

Well, I heard you :) And in honor of this post I'm filling out this comment with the "URL" field set to http://www.PublicEditorMyAss.com/ :-)

I agree search engines should be more meritocratic and less reliant on the excuse that "if you don't like what people are saying, get a Web page" (which sounds like libertarians saying "If you don't like what Microsoft does, write your own operating system", and they're not kidding, they're being serious). Nobody seems to know exactly how to do this, but I don't think that means it can't be done.

p.s. I feel compelled to point out, I wasn't even ego-surfing. I actually do check in here every couple of days!

Jon: More links now.

Bennett: You and what Slashdot audience? :-(
[n.b. this is playing off the common expression "You and what army?"]

The moral used to be: never argue with a man with a barrel full on ink. Now it's never argue with a man with a barrel full of links.