I took Memeorandum off the blogroll today.
Why? It seems to me that it is servicing more of the news media than the blogger community at this point, and it serving as a focus point for the swarming of bloggers over the same stories. And the news stories just seem to keep getting dumber. I find it a very depressing place to go, and I figure I'll reduce my own visits to the site if I take it off the blogroll. I don't figure it will impact anyone else - in all my log analysis review, I don't think I've ever seen anyone go from this site to memeorandum. But I've got to quit reading the stories that bloggers are swarming to - much of it is a sad commentary, on both the news media and the lack of independence that bloggers seem to be showing in their choice of blog subjects.