Why is Joi-san such a PageRank rainmaker?

This is a quiet blog, meandering along happily on its own. Nobody comes to it, and nobody links to it. It's a wonderful meditation on solitude and peace. Not a ripple of traffic bestirs its calm surface. I know, 'cause I checked the logs.

So imagine my surprise when my Google toolbar started showing some actual PageRank. A *lot* of PageRank, considering where we are here. Curious to say the least, I looked at the backward links and found links from Joi Ito's blog. *Lots* of links, none of which actually contained links to this site. Totally unwarranted, considering I've probably made three comments total on Joi-san's blog, moblog and wiki combined. So WTF? Is there something about his blogging tools that causes Google to read all comments as links from all of his posts? Is it a conscious strategy to provide benefit to people that connect to his community? Or is it yet another manifestation of the man's mysterious, superhuman talent for connectivity, a vast social probability distortion field that even Google can't parse adequately?

I've gotta understand this better. In the meanwhile, thanks Joi-san for your generosity, however it comes about 8-D