I was going to put together a Venezuela blog roundup but Daniel got there before me, putting together a fine collection of Venezuelan blog posts in these fermenty times, and saying all the stuff I wanted to say.

It reminds me of Daniel’s and my own simultaneously-made observation that Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit did exactly for Miguel Octavio what Hugo Chavez did for Noam Chomsky – rocketed him up to Number One.

For Miguel, Glenn’s link yesterday got Miguel’s blog over 13,000 hits and put him at the very top of the salon.com blog rankings for two days in a row, besting his nearest rival more than fourfold. For Chomsky, the Venezuelan dictator put him at number one at Amazon, well, for one day at least, not because of his recommendation but because everyone wanted to know just what Chavez was filling his head with to come out with that kind of sulphur spew.

Read Daniel’s Venezuela News & Views blog news roundup in this great post here.