This article in ClickZ Today looks at the content of blogs, their usefulness and lack of it.

My. My. Part of the fun of trying to be a meta blogger is linking up and watching the fun. Connexion likes the fact Susan Solomon, scribe of the above mentioned article knows about wiki, but that’s about it. Mark Morris has quite the rant/fisk for Ms. Solomon.

Portrait of a Blogger
kuro5hin.org give us an idea of what a teenoger, togger, trogger, Has to much timer, woggler, glogger, blinker and bippy is. Wonder what a God blogger is?

Google coolness
Microcontent News looks at Google. Very interesting how the Google News Search got started.

Bloxdex
Blogdex has spiffied up.

Connexions is on line. Welcome back.

Nintendo
Nintendo has been fined about 200 million dollars in an anti-trust case for price fixing between 1991 and 1998.

Worms and other take downs
Scientific American takes a look at the recent DDOS assault on the internet’s 13 root servers and the virilent worm/viruses and trojans being aimed at computer users.

Ah, good. Banana Counting Monkey is back. Now let’s hope Ranting and Roaring and Dispatches return soon.

Update on Bali: It has been confirmed that a second Canadian, 39 year old Mervyn Popadynec died in the bombing October 12th.

So when did Sainteros blog get new clothes? Nice threads dude.

Russia
I recall saying here, that when Russia was ready, Russia would say what gas they used to end the Chechan hostage taking. I did speculate on what gas was used and I was wrong.

I followed through and speculated again. Russia has named the gas used in the theatre.