Huff my blog

Arianna Huffington candid party Business 2.0 reports that Arianna Huffington is starting a megablog:
...Based in New York and staffed with a full complement of editors, the Huffington Report appears to be a culture and politics webzine in the classic mold of Salon or Slate. It will have breaking news, a media commentary section called "Eat the Press," and its most interesting innovation, a group blog manned by the cultural and media elite: Sen. Jon Corzine, Larry David, Barry Diller, Tom Freston, David Geffen, Vernon Jordan, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Harry Evans and his wife, Tina Brown. That's just to name a few, and Huffington is still recruiting...
Apropos of nothing, that caused me to visit ariannaonline.com, which links to resignation.com. In turn, resignation.com links back to ariannaonline.com. No doubt somewhere at ariannaonline it links to another of her "projects", thedetroitproject.com, which was designed to get us hoi polloi to drive smaller cars than Arianna and her friends. Needless to say, thedetroitproject.com links back to ariannaonline.com. And, here's the kicker: they're all on the same IP address. Let's turn to Craig from google:
Anonymous Coward:

Why in this day and age does google continue to penalize sites that are virtual hosted? With ip addresses becoming harder to get/justify every day why does google discount the relevance of links that don't come from a unique ip address. Please don't just deny it, I think the Internet community deserves an explanation.

Craig:

I can't just deny it? What are my other choices? [:)] Actually, Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses. If your ISP does virtual hosting correctly, you'll never see a difference between the two cases. We do see a small percentage of ISPs every month that misconfigure their virtual hosting, which might account for this persistent misperception--thanks for giving me the chance to dispel a myth!
Unfortunately, they didn't ask him the more important question: will google penalize me or my friend Arianna for interlinking our sites together while they're on the same IP? Would I and my close personal buddy Arianna get more hits if we hosted each separate domain on its own, distinct Class C IP? Frankly I don't know, but I've heard rumors. There's more on that here, here, here, and here.