"As I understand it," says Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the

Federal Reserve Board, "'blog amnesty' means you link

only to blogs you read regularly. Of necessity, this means

you would link to a relatively small number of blogs. Were this

to become the rule in the blogosphere, the link structure

Google and Technorati use to search for--and rank--blogs

would break down. In the near term, this means the only blog

you will read regularly will be your own, because it will be

the only one you can find. In the long term, this would mean

both good news and bad news for the economy."