Encroaching porn: The blogosphere is Zion as the machines pour through the dock. A couple of days ago I received 5 copies of the following note: Hi, I saw your email on your Blog …..cool stuff. I'm just surfing around trying to meet new people, so hi!. Check out more about me at... (Blogosphere)

There's also the 'memes' category: Another place the Onion article could be listed is under Memes, which is a safe place to stow any link that is currently riding the popularity charts in the blogosphere... So, there are some unanswered questions embedded in earlier entries. I'll try to sift them out soon, but they include deciding... (Editorial)

Tech writer changes her mind about blogs: After dismissing weblogging as just another technology-assisted fad, writer Chris Shipley has reconsidered and started writing a blog herself himself (actually, two blogs, both listed at Shipley's website). In The Blog Nation, Shipley cites several reasons why she he now believes weblogs are a publishing medium with innovative potential. Among them,... (Weblog Concepts)

Radio frequently not updating my blog: I find it very frustrating when I discover, as I do more and more frequently these days, that Radio has either ceased upstreaming my changes or is continually upstreaming an out-of-date version of my weblog home page. Today, for example, I fixed a typo in the Iraq/Iran salonika post and posted... (Products)

Idiocy of the week indeed.: Idiocy of the week indeed. At Salon this week Andrew Sullivan writes, "Where, one wonders, has Denby been? The main argument on the right these days is not white supremacism (I know that's news to Joe Conason, but then a lot of what's going on in the world is).... (Miscellany)

Blogger getting sued: A reader, probably looking for news of the blogger being sued by the Scientologists, ran across a September 23rd post to this blog in which I quote Dylan Tweney writing in his blog: "Thought experiment: What will happen to the free-and-easy culture of the blogosphere after the first weblogger (journalist or... (Weblog Concepts)

Blogging Iraq (and Iran) at Salon: Camille Roy's Ich Bin Ein Iraqi blog at Salon recounts her memories of a childhood in Iraq and takes on the powers-that-be in their drive to war, past and present. By coincidence, topping the Salon rankings these days is Hilary and Kathy's Tehran <–> Washington, DC 1970–1973 teen girl blog, featuring... (Salon Bloggers)

W. Bush believes he is: W. Bush believes he is presiding over 'the end times'. (via The Smirking Chimp) According to Jack Van Impe Ministries International, President Bush "knows" that he's involved with prophetic events concerning the Middle East and the final battle between good and evil:I know that he as seen this video, "Jerusalem: War... (Miscellany)