In establishing this weblog, I wanted to take a look at the best blogs out there addressing the global AIDS epidemic to learn from folks that know more about this than I do. I first looked on technorati which tracks nearly three million weblogs. I found six posts in the last week on "global AIDS", some of which are moderately interesting. But only six posts? As a point of contrast:

"iraq war": 609 posts
"global warming": 338 posts
"school vouchers": 33 posts
"kyoto protocol": 26 posts
"school prayer": 19 posts
"kitchen sink": 68 posts

There you have it -- folks running blogs are interested in pretty much every topic more than global AIDS -- including the kitchen sink. This would be easy to dismiss as reflective of the "teenage blogger" stereotype (which isn't so true -- bloggers tend to be older and more educated than even typical Internet users). And why should "global warming" get fifty times as many posts?