The Truth Laid Bear

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The Truth Laid Bear (commonly abbreviated TTLB) is a website maintained by the pseudonymous NZ Bear, which is well known for its TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem. The TTLB Ecosystem is a means by which tens of thousands of weblogs are ranked algorithmically by popularity.

[edit] The Ecosystem

TTLB classifications of blogs, from most popular to least popular:

Higher Beings
Mortal Humans
Playful Primates
Large Mammals
Marauding Marsupials
Adorable Rodents
Flappy Birds
Slithering Reptiles
Crawly Amphibians
Flippery Fish
Slimy Molluscs
Lowly Insects
Crunchy Crustaceans
Wiggly Worms
Multicellular Microorganisms
Insignificant Microbes

[edit] Porkbusters

NZ Bear was also instrumental (with Glenn Reynolds) in creating and promoting the Porkbusters campaign, the object of which was to call attention to wasteful spending by the U.S. Congress.