What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

Unless you’ve been under a rock, or in a coma, or both, for the past week or so, you’re aware of the scandal which has bubbled up around, and enveloped, Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from New York. Rather than recount the sordid events here, we recommend that those just emerging from a week’s seclusion, and unfamiliar with the tale go to Google and simply do a search for “Anthony Weiner.” You’ll know more than you care to know soon enough.

Prior to his marriage to Hilary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, the congressman was a bit of a well-known eligible bachelor, and romantically linked to a number of attractive, glamorous women. We figured it would be fun in a – “ripped from today’s headlines” sense – to see to what degree the media and political careers of these women have found them utilizing the remarkable tools of the world wide web and social media, and to what degrees their impressive accomplishments in the world (dating the congressman not even registering among them, it must be stated clearly that we’re certain) translate to visibility in the online sphere. And, not for nothing, this list may even give a sense of to what degree a tacit involvement in something such as this Weinergate nonsense may impact one’s overall digital footprint.

What have been your feelings on this whole scandal? Should the congressman resign? Should we move on? Should Mr. Weiner have handled things far, far better? Do you care at all? Let us know in the comments. (A brief disclaimer follows the list below.)

Rank	Picture	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1		Kirsten Powers	A Democrat pundit, blogger, columnist, and regular guest on The O’Reilly Factor.	8.04 / 10
2		Ginger Lee	An adult film actress with no real relationship to the Congressman apart from a Twitter relationship (in part played out publicly) which some have interpreted as flirtatious. There’s been some speculation in the media that the offending picture was not intended for the innocent young woman who received it, but instead for Ms. Lee.	7.60 / 10
3		Alli Joseph	TV host and producer, and author of books such as The Shaolin Way: Ten Modern Secrets of Survival from a Shaolin Grandmaster.	5.48 / 10
4		Huma Abedin	The congressman’s wife, and aide to Secretary of State Clinton.	5.29 / 10
5		Gigi Stone	Currently a correspondent for Bloomberg TV, she has also worked for ABC News and New York 1 in the past.	5.00/ 10
6		Rebecca Mead	New Yorker writer, and the author of books such as One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding	4.52 / 10

AND NOW A QUICK DISCLAIMER:

Divorced from any sort of meaningful opinion on the matter, we still do have a job to do, same as most folks, and throwing sweet and tawdry meat to you, the fine vultures of our beloved cyberspace, is sometimes the whole of what we’ve been taxed with for the day. “Give the people what they want,” the old saying goes, and you savages want sensationalism. We didn’t have much of that for you today, but we did have something, as we simply could not allow this wiener dog to lie unpoked.

We hope that in having done this list we have contributed to the white noise generated by this matter in as harmless a manner as possible. We sincerely cast no aspersions on the congressman, and offer no opinion nor judgment regarding his behavior. This is a matter between the congressman and any number of people, none of whom are us. We have, it must be noted, also happily forgone the endless smutty puns and double entendres that both the distinguished gentleman himself, and our nation’s news media have embraced throughout the lifespan of this “story” (not that we’re above such things, just acknowledging that in coming to the story late, we’ve little to add to that pile).

One last note: The young woman who the congressman contacted (either deliberately or accidentally) was kept well and fully out of this. She’s just some kid who got caught up in something insane. The women on this list, while also innocent, are all public figures, to varying degrees. Lest we be accused of abundant decency or ethics, though, let it be known that we have included on this list the woman who some in the media have speculated may have been the intended recipient of Mr. Weiner’s correspondence, as she is an entertainer and public figure. We stress, however, that there is no known romantic link between Mr. Weiner and Ms. Lee, and she’s on this list at all in the name of cheeky good fun, and not in the name of conveying bias.
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