I like #3 for the same reasons I like Mahalo, it's a question that brings together a good combination of thought, research, experience and opinion. #1 and #5, while collectors of useful information, are still things that you could have found anyplace (tips for saving money is right up there with tips for increasing your web site traffic in terms of popularity). #2 is just too abstract for me to care about it - though it may be interesting, it is not valuable. #4 is too arbitrary, asking us to be long distance doctors without knowing all the symptoms.

So #3 it is. While you could easily find a picture of Waco in any search engine, it is the human element of Mahalo that differentiates it and for 1993 at least promotes that picture higher than, say, Clinton being sworn in. I remember watching Waco happen. It is a powerful image. Which, I think, is sort of the point of that whole "defining photograph" series.

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