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Gotta give a plug to Heather Hamby’s newly-redesigned website (now with working buttons) for anyone following the adventures of the Triad’s favorite beauty queen.  (Or at least, my favorite beauty queen). And, as always, I recommend that you keep abreast of Emily Mark’s website, and in particular her blog, The Soap Box.  Funny stuff.  Emily has toned up like I-don’t-know-what … Read More

Pew survey: 54% of bloggers say that they have never published their writing or media creations anywhere else; 44% say they have published elsewhere. 54% of bloggers are under the age of 30. Women and men have statistical parity in the blogosphere, with women representing 46% of bloggers and men 54%. 76% of bloggers say a reason they blog is … Read More

According to U.S. Newswire: At U.S. Politics Today, we thought it might be interesting to see how the right-wing media machine was doing. Not well, it turns out. During the past three months, for instance, http://rushlimbaugh.com traffic ranking has declined 18 percent. He still huffs and puffs away daily on radio, but advertisers might want to double check the size … Read More

Oh, my.  Things are really busy.  And I want so much to respond to Marie Jon Apostrophe.  Hopefully tomorrow.

You may have heard the story this week about a tragic case of mistaken identity.  If not, here’s the low-down: The casket was closed for Whitney Cerak’s funeral more than a month ago. Her mother, Colleen, declined to look at the body, battered as it was in a collision between a van and a tractor-trailer. "They wanted to remember her … Read More

I’m calling it "The Seventh Sense" for now.  I’ll see if it grows on me.  It may change any day.  I’m just that fickle. I realized that a lot of my ideas had negative words in the title ("can’t" "not" "don’t"), so I stayed away from those. P.S.  Commenter Brett reminded me that I once called this blog "Goldfish Don’t … Read More

According to recent estimates, there are 7 million blogs in America, NOT counting sites like MySpace and Xanga. Of the top 55,000 blogs tracked by TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, I am ranked at around 15,000.  My internal Typepad counter informs me that I get anywhere from 50-100 hits per day, although I suspect that many of those "visits" are from spambots. … Read More

Well, the home computer died.  Expect blogging to be light for a while until I get back on my feet.

No, that wasn’t blogger Atrios playing blogger Atrios on tonight’s episode.

I guess I should take note of a couple of milestones: (1)  I passed by two-year blogging anniversary on January 21, 2006.  Ironically, my first post was about the State Of the Union . .  in 2004.  (Although not really, because I was part of a group blog back in 2003.  But whatever.) (2)  My 2,000th post was written today. … Read More

Bush mentioned human-animal hybrids in the SOTU From Technorati, here are the number of blog posts that mentioning Human-animal Hybrids per day for the last 30 days.

Daniel Rubin at the Philly Inquirer makes the convincing case that Ben Franklin, who celebrated his 300th birthday yesterday, was the first blogger: Not so far a stretch, really. He pamphleteered, self-published, delivered colonial dish, news and opinion, sampled other’s work and remixed it into his own mash. He wrote anonymously, or under pseudonyms. Instead of posting daily, he squirreled … Read More

I’ve added a couple "live" webcams (actually, 0ne is updated every half hour) to my slideshow at the right.  They show the current view of the Augustine (Alaska) volcano, which is set to blow any day/week now.  Maybe. The cam from Homer, Alaska is from a vantage point 75 miles away, so it may not look like much, especially on … Read More

National Journal’s Blogometer has a wrap-up of the year in political blogging, including the ever-increasing influence that blogs have on media and politics.  A must-read.