Purported Bin Laden "Letter to: Purported Bin Laden "Letter to America". Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'... (Miscellany)

Tom Coates on the rightward tilt in the punditic blogosphere: Over at plasticbag.org, Tom wonders about the popularity of right-wing views among political bloggers, and offers a few theories: [T]he sheer number and moral certainty of current right-wing webloggers is intimidating (occasionally terrifying). This in itself would not be a reason to avoid debate, except that (as is often the case... (Weblog Concepts)

Qual Tour (is this a guest editor?): Your Salon Blog Tour of Quality     Pesky the Rat has the inside information regarding the John Ashcroft "War on Redwoods."   Over at Reflections, Daniel Dolinov makes a number of unflattering remarks about mega-star Babs. I'd have to say that anyone who has ever seen "Yentel" and not been profoundly... (Salon Bloggers)

Can the Democrats win again?: Harley Sorensen has some, on balance, very wise advice for the Democratic party in Dems Must Change To Win In '04 / View from the left:To win in 2004, the Democrats must return to their roots, rather than continue their recent insipid balancing act, an act that has turned them into... (Miscellany)

Kikkomaso. Let me be the: Kikkomaso. Let me be the last one on the block to link to this bizarre flash soy sauce superhero risqué music video....... (Miscellany)

My interview happening live now on the Well: Today we're starting the Inkwell interview with me about Dreamweaver Savvy and related topics. The Inkwell is a publicly-viewable conference at the Well usually featuring interviews with book authors. Besides the software addressed in my book (Dreamweaver and Fireworks), we're planning to talk about related topics such as web design and... (Book News)

Garden blogs: Can anyone recommend some good garden or gardening blogs? I have an ulterior motive for asking which I'll explain after I see what this search turns up.... (Weblog Concepts)

Blogging 'Revenge of the Blogs': Bag and Baggage provides some good coverage of last weekend's 'Revenge of the Blogs' conference at Yale.... (Weblog Concepts)

Start at the beginning, proceed through the middle to the end, and then stop: Diane E. is ending her Letter from Gotham blog and plans to remove it from the Web (so the preceding link may not work). I'm not sure why she wants to remove it, but her reasons for ending it are clear: she's finished. Like everything else, a blog can have a... (Weblog Concepts)

I'd laugh if I weren't crying: Tom Tomorrow describes three scenarios and asks you to guess which actually happened and which are outlandish satire. I should probably just link to the cartoon every Monday.... [Bite Media]... (Salon Bloggers)

Video kill the bloggio star?: As a writer, I am ambivalent about mediablogging and the old vidphone idea mixed with a kind of public-access Wayne's World media future, but mobile blogging (moblogging?) — which seems to be the meme of the moment in metablogging circles — seems more appealing. Just as I've always liked carrying a... (Weblog Concepts)