A PhD candidate from MIT is doing a survey on blogs with some extemely interesting questions.
Web logs, also known as blogs have gone from being a once marginal activity of Internet enthusiasts to becoming squarely mainstream. With the gradual upgrade to a more “serious” publishing venue, blog authors are finding themselves increasingly liable for their [...]

If you have clicked over from Christianity Today’s print column about weblogs, welcome!
If this is your first introduction to what we call the blogosphere, I encourage you to explore.
Blogging has it’s own social and technical language.
Anyone can blog. The technology is simple, the cost free. All it takes is the time and inclination.
As you explore, [...]

Connexions posted error message haikus. Very funny stuff.
Beats reading the rant below.
So, can anyone come up with some ‘extreme weather’ haikus?
It’s sweltering in Australia and New Zealand, so we’re all facing extremes on some level. Might as well get some poetry out of it.
The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist. [...]

Our various levels of government need ‘mystery shoppers.’
You know, people assigned to access and deal with various departments and rate them.
But it wouldn’t work. There is no incentive. We have one the largest, most broken systems on this planet. It would stall in committee for the next 50 years.
I’m no further ahead with my dealings [...]

A depressed man gave 126 thousand dollars to a Florida church five years ago and has been trying to get it back.
The church says they can’t because the money was used to build a family ministry space. Apparently church officials and 55 year old Marcel Mager tried to work it out, with the church [...]

The Big Five Personality Test

Extroverted
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34%

Introverted
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66%

Friendly
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54%

Aggressive
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46%

Orderly
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52%

Disorderly
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48%

Relaxed
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54%

Emotional
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46%

Openminded
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52%

Closeminded
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48%

Take Free Big 5 Personality Test
Link via Ian’s Messy Desk
Marriage
What is the definition of marriage?
How important is parenting within the definition?
Can same sex couples marry?
What country are you in?
What decade were you born in?
If you’ve ever thought about the above, you can participate in a quick survey without having [...]

This isn’t a King of the Blogs, hit the top of the charts or a Carnival of the Vanities.
LivingRoom is holding a Blogging Idol idea that seems fair and balanced for everyone who’d like to participate.
I’ve been enjoying Carnival of the Canucks, even some that haven’t submitted are getting a mention.
Australian responds to Baby It’s [...]

…How hast thou merited -
Of all man’s clotted clay, the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee,
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from thee I did but take,
Not for thy harms,
But just that thou might’st seek it in My arms.
All which [...]