Papal Bull?
By Micah L. Sifry, 04/19/2005 - 12:40pm

Did Cardinal Ratzinger have a blog strategy for becoming Pope? A glance at this Blogpulse chart is suggestive...[Thanks to Doc for the tip.]

Somebody's Got His Domain Name

He and his campaigners couldn't have been too Web savvy. Somebody scored the domain name, BenedictXVI.com, two weeks ago. (See the
Wired story.) It links to the WorkBench blog on programming and publishing news, written by a very prescient Rogers Cadenhead. His comments on his coup are pretty entertaining.

Kate Kaye
Associate Editor
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