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Workers of the World: Unite (on blogs)!

Charles Todd is taking a break. Hopefully he'll be back.

You could have fooled me, but rumor is that conservative women are better looking.

Somebody likes to collect old cameras, and then develop the old film they find in them. Pretty cool!

The Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005 (MORA) sounds like a good idea to me.

The most profitable costume you could wear for Halloween? Perhaps it would be a plumber...

Is it just me, or is it time for David Broder to spend his full time at the beach?

There's a lesson in the "Nigerian 419 advance fee scam" email scam that I don't think we've quite absorbed yet:

The 419 scammer’s profession is one of daft promises made via email, backed up by weeks or months of persuasion, all to make sure that money is levered out of the gullible at long distance. The favourite targets are Americans, because they are seen as particularly greedy and easy to dupe with these ludicrous tales.

I just assumed it was an international scourge, with wealthy nations targeted equally. Apparently our country's reputation precedes the effort.

Soj is back!

Nah, they're not necessarily the most important bloggers to the entire rest of the blogosphere, but I like to read them, and they blogroll PSoTD, which I'm thankful for, so some highlights from some this blogroll's "A" letter bloggers:

A Grand Illusion: Remember When the Russians Were Threatening?

Above Average Jane: What's Sign Language for "dollop"?

After School Snack: Damn You Ticketmaster and Suck On It Fox

All Spin Zone: Keep the Powder Dry

alphabitch: How to wake up in the morning without really trying

Alternate Brain: What's This Blog Worth?
(more than mine)

American Regression: Let Hypocrisy Reign!

An Old Soul: CA: Our Governor's ties to Norquist, Prop. 75 and his appointee

Audacity: Reasons

Ayn Clouter's Blog: Out of the Shadows

Last week I had a post picked up by Daou Report, which generates quite a bit of new traffic. But this is the second or third time now that I've noticed that shortly after a Daou link, I'm getting considerably more traffic from Google as well on various searches completely unrelated to the Daou-linked post. I'm assuming that these searches are going on all the time, because they don't seem particularly time-sensitive at this point, and that for whatever reason, this blog is higher ranked as a result now. Is it due to a "higher ranking" because of the Daou Report link? I haven't had any other major blogroll links to my knowledge in the past week...

Even with the recent traffic increase, we've devolved back to a Marauding Marsupial at The Truth Laid Bear. So, let me share some highlights from my new neighbors in the trees:

UnFairWitness: Daniel Goetz: A soldier silenced

GruntDoc: LSU Medical, Nursing and Dental continue despite Katrina

LannyCardow.com: Top ten young conservatives in the House

Just thought you might be interested who they think their stars of tomorrow will be.

Freedom to Tinker: Breathalyzers and Open Source

Lawyers for 150 Floridians accused of drunk driving have asked a court to order the disclosure of the source code for software running in the breathalyzer machines used by police to analyze their blood alcohol level...

Patridiot Watch: Ahmed Chalabi for Fed Chairman?

Yow. Oh, and hey, why is Brad Lidge giving up so many homeruns now?

In an AOL-valuated world, how much is your blog worth?

According to their site, PSoTD is worth $62,099.40. Yeah, I'm a bit behind Crooks and Liars and Talk Left, but who isn't?

Yep, gonna add three of the blogs listed below to the blogroll on Saturday, and you get to help pick which ones. Vote for as many as you think should be added, and the top three votegetters get in. What about the remaining five? Next time!

Once upon a time, relatively early in the days of the web, a site began called Political Site of the Day by some operation in Texas. It was a simple Cool Site of the Day type of site, except it was about politics, and at some point the Texas firm decided they wanted out, and they decided to sell the site/domain. We bought it and ran Political Site of the Day ever since.

Blogs, and the diversity of constant political information they offer, has basically overwhelmed the premise of the Political Site of the Day, and it is time to put that site to bed for good. By the end of 2005, we will be retiring it. However, there's still a pretty good domain attached to it - aboutpolitics.com - and we're curious as to the value of the domain. Of course, I'm not very hopeful after seeing the domain bid results at http://www.afternic.com/names.php?s=politics#

but still curious.

I haven't sold a domain like this before, so I'm looking for advice and suggestions on how to go about it. Anything would be helpful.

And P.S. - PSoTD the blog will continue, it's just the Political Site of the Day site that we are disentangling ourselves from...

Okay, I will admit, I probably haven't visited The Huffington Post for a couple of months before last night.

When I went to the site yesterday, the first thing that struck me is that it didn't seem as attractive as I remembered it. Text scrolled too far to the right, blocky layout that seemed a bit counterproductive to finding articles. However, lots of things to read that I hadn't seen before, and some of interest. Still... it's really not a common stop for me on the Web, and I don't see that changing at this point. For me.

What I'd like to hear from folks is how they think The Huffington Post is doing, both for readers and for the blogosphere. Is it a must read for you? Is it better or worse or the same as when it first started? Is it a good thing for bloggers in general? How is The Huffington Post doing?

I seem to have put down roots around 1640 at The Truth Laid Bear - Large Mammal country. I move up, I move down, but not very far either way.

I still get new neighbors, folks moving in and out. Here's a sampling:

ArchPundit: Falafal Boy is attacking blogs tonight.

Fast Company Now: Federal lawmakers are reconsidering restricting airplane travelers from using their cell phones while in flight. Should business — and other — travelers be allowed to use their cell phones while on airplanes? Take the Fast Company poll.

Common Grounds Online: The Washington Post has a lengthy and loving review (here) by Neely Tucker of The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, which arrives 10 years after creator Bill Watterson retired.

This one really caught my eye...

Global Guerrillas

HOW BIG IS THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ?

UPDATE: I am currently revising this estimate. Stay tuned for a new release.

The net result is that we are likely facing an insurgency of 184,800 men.

It's always interesting to check out the nearby blogs on the list, although it sure seems I'm located in a very conservative section.

Thanks to the following fine blogs for including PSoTD in their blogroll:

Young Philly Politics

The Price of Liberty is Vigilance

Much, much appreciated!

If so, it seems pretty unlikely to me that God would blogroll Hugh Hewitt.

I just wanted to take a second to appreciate a personal blogging milestone: 10,000 page views for PSoTD in September. I don't foresee doing that again in October, since viewing was greatly enhanced by postal workers checking blogs for postal service news during Hurricane Katrina (thank you, USPS) but it was encouraging to me as a blogger. Thanks!