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Any promotion is good promotion, right? So we’d like to thank our friends out their in cyberspace who link to our humble newspaper -- even if the link-love is not always to promote our content, but to condemn it.

As Barack Obama took his oath of office last week, it seemed the whole world was watching the historic moment with bated breath. Then the flub heard around the world happened, and Patt Morrison took to cyberspace to share her thoughts -- and people were reading. FindLaw’s Common Law blog discussed whether Obama should retake the oath and noted Morrison’s inclusion of the not-known-to-most tidbit that the oath language prescribed by the Constitution does not include ‘so help me God.’ Ever since FDR’s inauguration, presidents have simply volunteered the phrase themselves. Others referenced us for noting that the Constitution doesn’t even require a president to take the oath. But they weren’t the only ones to examine the flub.

If the infamous oath incident weren’t enough to draw webbies to our blog, Michael McGough’s odd discovery that Pope Benedict XVI has his own YouTube channel -- yes, it’s true -- got us noticed.

And former Opinion staffer Amina Khan’s July 2008 post on whether then-Sen. Obama’s vote on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will come back to haunt him was a picked up recently by Under the Radar Media.