More Loaded Pilots: CNN.com reports that Mesa Airlines fired a pilot who tested positive for drinking: The incident follows two other cases involving commercial pilots allegedly drinking before flying. Is this a trend or the end of one?... (Memes)

Blogcritics.com Cited by Slate: In its "Other Websites" section, under the odd heading of "Peacebloggers," Slate gives a short blurb to the Blogcritics project, a site of book, music, film and other reviews entirely by bloggers. Hey, wasn't it the free LPs and movie tickets—and eventually the ad buys for so-called alternative music—that killed the... (Weblog Concepts)

Teardrop in Space: An ex-coworker just sent me this site's address by IM. Reading some of it I am reminded that not all idiosyncratic self-published writing on the Internet is in blog format. I know that's obvious, but with blogs getting all the heat and light lately maybe I was tending to forget it.... (Memes)

Another 'Blog Martyr': Catching up at nickdenton.org I see he identifies a second "blog martyr" (after Steve Olafson): Other blog martyrs Brian Sobalak writes in to remind me that Heather Hamilton of Dooce was fired when her company discovered she'd been bitching on her site. Here's Heather's post on the subject. One of the... (Memes)

MovableType Update: Since I did the original test installation of MovableType locally (on my PowerBook) a few months ago and have only fiddled with it since then, I decided to bite the bullet and install MT on my remote (Linux) server to reacquaint myself with the process, and to explore the 2.2 version... (Weblog Concepts)

Bet You Can't Read Just One: Agh. I've just tossed three hours down the blogosphere memory hole, clicking open links in new windows and following the trails of breadcrumbs. The incestuous cross-linking between blogs is a joy and a burden.... (Weblog Concepts)

Again, Please, In English?: Nick Denton takes Traction to task for the buzzword bingo in their press release: Oh no, the corporate wordmanglers have got hold of blogging. "Traction is a leader in next generation Enterprise Weblog software, delivering interoperable, inexpensive, rapidly deployable, open and easy to use tools for groups and teams to communicate,... (Best Practices)