Combatting linkrot: Every now and then Kevin Drum at Calpundit puts in a little plea to other bloggers to take a few modest steps to avoid linkrot. (Journalism)

Slate diary based on Salon blog: I noticed that Interns' Diary ("Two medical interns examine their roles as healers while learning to be doctors") was high on the Salon blog rankings charts last week with a huge traffic spike coming in the form of referrals from a Slate weeklong diary featuring Ingrid Katz and Alexi Wright, the... (Salon Bloggers)

The John Kerry blogosphere: The John Kerry for President Blog now features an aggregrator page listing recent blog and news items that mention Kerry. [via Scripting News]... (Politics)

If you like RFB, you'll love...: (Some) people who subscribe to Radio Free Blogistan also subscribe to these "similar" feeds.... (Blogosphere)

Standing Room Only at Live from the Blogosphere!: Preliminary reports are coming in from SRO (see the entry following the one I've linked here as well, although he mentions sighting me—or another xian?—there when as far as I know I was still here up north at the time): Dear Bloggers: Well, the jig is up. I've seen you. I... (Salon Bloggers)

Bloggle? Googer? Google buys Pyra: Why am I always the last to know? Dan Gillmor reports that Google is buying Pyra. In the short term, the main effect will be greater stability for Blogspot users. Over at his blog, Dan is also collecting commentary from bloggers about this move. Most seem to think it's a good... (Best Practices)

xian's 115th dream: I think I can safely file this under "blogging too much lately." I had one of those long, convoluted dreams last night, much of which I can still remember even as the internal dream logic has started to tatter. Near the end, I was in a motel room with Mark Pilgrim.... (Weblog Concepts)