Rumour?
Trial ballon?
Leak?
If it is true, it’s not a surprise anymore.
Tony Blair has ordered his closest aides to draw up plans for a snap general election to be held in February, The Telegraph has learnt.
Alan Milburn, Labour’s new head of election strategy, has been told to launch a television and poster advertising blitz in the New [...]

Is this video, and it’s timing, a surprise to anyone?

There is a baby porcupine up a cedar tree, and he/she is not happy.
I didn’t know they could sound so distressed.
He/she got themselves up there for whatever reason, they’ll have to find their way down.
I’m tempted to help, but a leather jacket and work gloves wouldn’t protect me. Or the porcupine, he/she is scared and [...]

This BBC article speculates why the official re-election website of the Republican party is being blocked outside the US.
Mike Prettejohn, president of Netcraft, speculated that the blocking decision might have been taken to cut costs, and traffic, in the run-up to the election on 2 November.
He said the site may see no reason to [...]

Over at The Blog Herald I noticed they linked up to Christianity Today’s piece on Real Live Preacher. Underneath was a comment left by someone from BROG- Blog Research by Genre.
The paper, Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis “From the Bottom Up” will be presented in Hawaii at an International Conference on System [...]

What have you done the past four days?
A 39 year old mother, her two year old son, and her three year old daughter were unburied and rushed to hospital in Japan.
They had been buried under a landslide, in a van since Saturday.
As rescuers dug them out another earthquake measuring 6.1 hit the Nagaoka area.
Four days. [...]

I have to tell Dispatches from Outland something and the rest of you are very welcome to listen in.
It started with this post.
Once again the real action was in the comment section.
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) did go to Pennsylvania, and there was a live town hall meeting with US citizens.
Questions to US voters were [...]

Once again the blogosphere bumps into online ‘mainstream’ religion.
Christianity Today reviewed RealLivePreacher.com (the book).
It’s okay. I don’t live in the US and hang out with seriously churched folks, so I don’t quite understand the disclaimers. The review could have been worse.
I suspect in some quarters as the book gets more attention, there will be er, [...]