Sometime around Valentine’s Day of this year, intermediation blew up:

Update, 4/7/05: The link above used to show a nice graph, which you can still see if you follow the link. I linked directly to the graph image as a kind of experiment to see whether BlogPulse enabled such a thing. Unfortunately, it looks like the graph images are only generated temporarily and the image files disappear after a few days. Too bad–allowing deep linking to their graphs would be a great way to spread word. After all, they have their name and copyright clearly embedded in the image.