New contributors at RFB: Please join me in welcoming four new contributors to Radio Free Blogistan: Andrew Bayer filchyboy Liza Sabater Rayne Today All have written extensively about weblogging on their own blogs and all have graciously consented to join my newly formed writing staff here at RFB. I'll post brief bios soon and you... (Nanopublishing)

Al Franken kinda blogs: Visiting the DNC, Franken apparently dictated an entry for the Kicking Ass weblog. I'd read a real Al Franken weblog, if he had the time to write it. Hell, Bill Maher and Margaret Cho do.... (Politics)

Movable Type growing pains: Scot Hacker reports some scaling problems with Movable Type. He's noticed that his server is taking longer and longer to rebuild after each new post or comment. The comment problem leads to people double- or triple-posting in frustration. Thus far he's found an unorthodox solution, but he's mainly hoping that the... (Products)