Tweaking the sidebar here: I figured the link back to RFB proper should be bigger and easier to click on, so I sort of combined two sidebar-title/sidebar elements from before.... (Editorial)

Template access: filchyboy, you now have access to the templates at RFB. Anyone else want in? Please everyone check around before trying out changes. Best to demo them over here first as Liza will be doing. filchy, i didn't give you config access. Do you need that?... (Editorial)

Don't mess with the Dutch: The blog spam wars have begun to get nasty.... (Blogosphere)

Are blogs a new form of virtual community?: Dr. Anita Blanchard has published a preliminary analysis of a proposition that blogs may be a new form of virtual community, based on a studio of the Julie/Julia Project Salon blog: This research provides an initial look into the complicated topic of blogs as virtual communities. For many readers, the Julie/Julia... (People Power)

Trackback Failure: Track backs do not seem to be reflected in the template for indivual posts. This post declares 4 trackbacks but does not display them.... (errors)

Another metablog comes on the scene: Now, I'm still super-skeptical of the actual impact that blogs will have on the presidential election, or politics in general, but the new blog run by Matt Stoller, Jay Rosen, and Christopher Lydon, The Blogging Of The President: 2004, looks like it'll be worth watching. True, Lydon has drunk deep of... (Politics)