On Saturday evening, the Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, posted an article on its Web site saying that Mr. Mukasey was the leading candidate to succeed Mr. Gonzales.
But after Wired News, an online publication, posted an article about flash mobs on its Web site, interest began to spiral upward.
On the eve of the Nobel announcement, Colta, a highbrow Russian online culture publication, posted a short item headed "Why You Should Know Who Svetlana Alexievich Is".
Its first publication, posted to the WikiLeaks Web site in December 2006, was a message from a Somali rebel leader encouraging the use of hired gunmen to assassinate government officials.
On Wednesday, thirty minutes after The New Yorker contacted A.M.I. for comment about the payment to Sajudin, Radar Online, an A.M.I. publication, posted a story acknowledging the thirty-thousand-dollar payment but saying that the former doorman's story was false.
The Ventriloquist, an independent student-run publication, posted an anonymous statement attributed to the complainant.
Two days earlier, the New York Post, a Murdoch publication, posted an editorial headlined: "Hillary Clinton's head fake," stating that Secretary Clinton's story about her illness "beggars belief:".
Various other UK publications post naked pictures of women.
Occasionally, serious publications post about the tweets is if they prove the old canard that looting during disasters is a major problem.
And while it's rare, vandals have been known to sneak harmful material into publications post-editing.
