Re: How best to market this article
This is not a press release, nor applicable (That I can think of) even if modified - you should not attempt to use PR services (Purposed to "promote" something newsworthy from the submitter) to try to generate link pop.
You could of course submit it to all relevant article repositories, stick a digg this link on there, seek out other like minded individuals and ask them to post the article (With proper link credit of course) or link to it
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