What up with BlogShares?: For some reason RFB's market cap and incoming/outgoing link tallies are frozen at March 20 levels over at BlogShares. On the other hand the share price is updated dynamically (and, gratifyingly, I suppose, has been on a pleasing upward curve lately). One interesting thing is that the people who've acquired shares... (Weblog Concepts)

Did U.S. troops encourage the looting?: This site published an allegation that the occupying troops declared open season on looting. Was this a propaganda effort (look! freedom!) that got out of hand? When you couple it with reports that much of the museum looting was "professional" in nature, it looks pretty ugly. (Not as ugly as maimed... (Miscellany)

Iranian blogger arrested: Blogging has gotten pretty big in Iran, which is no surprise given the democratic strivings emerging from the enormous Persian youth culture. Now it appears that one Iranian blogger/journalist has been arrested. He is "accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles... (Salon Bloggers)