On February 21, I attended a meeting between March 20 Coalition organizers and city/police officials.

I published a report on the meeting in the afternoon on February 27. On that very same day, a Web crawler employed by the City of Chicago spent 51 minutes and 14 seconds on the site, so obviously someone had programmed this thing to be on the lookout.

Two of the city's web crawlers have spent one hour, 55 minutes and 41 seconds trolling the Chicago FreeSpeechZone so far this month. Is it overly cynical to speculate that they're trying to keep tabs on anti-war protesters' plans?

This after I described the meeting as "surprisingly cordial." I'm starting to think I got spun.

Partly peeved and partly flattered by the city's attention, I left an unusually direct message to the snoops. Refer to it for your amusement or for further info, like the IP addresses of the snooping entities.