Every since Google bought Blogger there's been a brouhaha about how Google ranks and presents weblogs in searches. There's been said a lot about this already, but I thought Ev's responds to Matt's entry, which claims something isn't right in Googleville, is fairly interesting. And because this is the blogosphere Matt responds to Ev's entry right away.

I haven't signed up for Friendster (or Enemyster for that matter) mainly because I live here and everyone signed up lives in NYC, so really what's the point? But that doesn't mean I don't think the Friendster shirts aren't a good idea [via Gawker].

I guess it was just a matter of time [via Dong Resin].

Man, they're sooo writing about my life here [via Felafel].

Bolt of Blue's Alyse is living the life of a bonafide rock star these days. I mean check out who she's been hanging out with!

Someone on the blogathon mailing list posted this nice article about Heather Truett, who'll be blogging in the blogathon as well.

And speaking of the Blogathon the third person to sponsor me is another member of the abcbc posse - Jens Winther - who runs the popular bound.dk weblog. So big thank yous go out to him as well.

Remember when I got the date and time for the blogathon screwed up (I really can be such a tool sometimes)? Well, I done did it again! Not the dates this time, but apparently I didn't read the rules clearly enough (which is whack, because there's pretty much just one rule). Anyway, the rule is that you have to post something every 30 minutes (and not every hour as I thought), so now I'm thinking of topics and anecdotes, so I'll have some stuff to blog about, when we hit that 4AM blogging drought.

People are going crazy making all kinds of weird buttons to promote the blogathon. You can download a bunch of them here, but my favourite one belongs to Cat Connor, who started the whole blogathon thing. I just love that I want my two dollars kid from Better Off Dead.