CENTCOM posted a comment on my blog today.

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 3:02 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 15:02

Hi... as some of you may already know, I'm the main poster at an off-off-Broadway blog called Needlenose. Like most bloggers, I have a few pet topics that I post about often -- if anything, I may be best known here for as a Plameologist, but I also post near-daily analyses about the Iraq fiasco (and especially the twists and turns of post-invasion politics there).

Our traffic isn't huge -- about 1,500 to 2,000 unique visitors a day -- but it's not nothing, either. And we like to humor ourselves that we're kind of like a cult band, not wildly popular ourselves but with an elite and influential following. (Hey, laugh if you want, but at least Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post, said he was a reader, so I can die happy.)

But I didn't really think that anyone was paying that much attention until this morning, when someone from CENTCOM submitted a comment on something I'd written just a couple of hours earlier.

Granted, it wasn't exactly a "comment" in the sense that it said anything specifically about my post -- but if it hit my latest post and nothing else, it wasn't blatant spam, either. Here's the comment:

Hello, my name is Spc. Patrick Ziegler with U.S. CENTCOM Public Affairs. I would like to invite readers here to visit the CENTCOM website. The site is a good source of information; press releases, news stories, etc, on the day-to-day events in Iraq, Afghanistan and the entire Central Command Area of Responsibility.
Feel free to visit Central Command at www.centcom.mil
Thanks.

What do you guys make of this? Does anyone know of other blogs that have been hit with similar comments?

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