15 gigabytes of fame

15 gigabytes of fame
: Leave it to today’s instant media onslaught to turn Salam Pax into an overexposed star before we all even get to meet him.

Stories about him are everywhere: CNN, Der Spiegel, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and every local paper that does a story on weblogs.

I only hope that all the efforts to get closer to him, identifying his career and even his ISP, does not let Saddam’s SS identify him before we get to meet him.