I was one of gazillions who posted yesterday about Andrew Rasiej's bid for NYC Public Advocate, and apparently Rasiej has been getting more searches at Technorati than Katrina or the Skype deal with eBay. Either this is proof of the mobbing effect of all those posts -- and the specific recommendation from Rasiej's handlers that people should "Check out what other bloggers are saying by going to http://www.technorati.com and type “Rasiej” into the search box." Although some hecklers are suggesting that this is a dark conspiracy at Technorati -- that they are rigging things so that the Rasiej posts are "most popular" as some sort of support for his campaign. Or maybe people are just worn down on the Katrina coverage, and are genuinely interested in a politician who seems, well, profoundly different from the norm.