Reuters reports:

Boeing Co. apologized on Friday for a mistakenly published advertisement for its V-22 Osprey aircraft showing troops dropping onto the roof of a mosque in what appears to be a simulated battle scene.

Randy: WTF were they thinking?

PR: 724 Solutions, a leading provider of next-generation IP-based network and data services, today announced that Hewlett-Packard Company has notified the company that it will terminate its subcontract agreement with respect to the deployment of 724 Solutions' access gateway solution at Sprint effective on October 31, 2005.

http://www.724.com/news/details260.asp

Randy: I guess that's it. Could someone please lock the door on the way out?

David Crow: I am really psyched about doing a BarCampToronto. [cut] Like MooseCamp there will be no camping involved. If you would like to camp out on the streets of downtown Toronto, more power to you, but I prefer a comfy down comforter covered bed. [cut] The date, hmmm, sometime in February 2006.

Randy: What? No camping? F-that! Oh, you said February. K, iM in. Don't let it slide to March, because I live at Disney in March. BTW, how does TorCamp sound? And if this works out, then let's do a summer TorCamp at Indian Line. Yes, there's a campground in Toronto (Finch and 427).

eWeek: On Tuesday, the PTO issued a "Notice of Intent to Issue a Reexam Certificate" to Eolas, a one-person company spun off from the University of California, on U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906—known as the '906 patent. The notice means the PTO has decided to uphold the patent's validity, with an official certificate to follow later this year.

Dennis Crouch: From the standpoint of the PTO, the reexamination certificate is essentially a stamp of approval from the PTO that the prior art submitted does not invalidate the patent.

Microsoft said it would redesign the browser to get around Eolas' patents, potentially breaking large numbers of Web pages in the process.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1865104,00.asp

Randy: That's an interesting turn. The W3C and Microsoft both seemed convinced that a re-examination would invalidate the patent. Microsoft could probably fight this patent forever, but it's starting to look like they'll eventually lose. Redesigning the browser means that technologies like Java and Flash applets would have to adapt and could mean millions of broken Webpages.

Nathan Weinberg: The URL calendar.google.com is now live, which recent history tells us means Google will be launching the site shortly.

http://calendar.google.com/

Michael Bach: These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, called optical illusions or visual illusions.

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

David Gross, U.S. State Dept.: We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet. Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.

Dougie: Clicking GmailThis! creates a mini-interface to Gmail prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page.

GmailThis! <-- drag this link to your browser's Links bar

AFI.com: American Film Institute (AFI) revealed the top 25 film scores of all time:

1. Star Wars
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Psycho
5. The Godfather
6. Jaws
7. Laura
8. The Magnificent Seven
9. Chinatown
10. High Noon
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood
12. Vertigo
13. King Kong
14. ET
15. Out of Africa
16. Sunset Blvd
17. To Kill a Mockingbird
18. Planet of the Apes
19. A Streetcar Named Desire
20. The Pink Pather
21. Ben-Hur
22. On the Waterfront
23. The Mission
24. On Golden Pond
25. How the West was Won

I watch very few movies or TV, as can be seen by how many of these top 25 I've watched (in bold). I'm gonna buy a few and watch them. You only live for decades.

Gootch: Google is the owner of gcalendar.com!

http://googleaddiction.blogspot.com/2005/09/date-to-remember.html

Randy: Another service in the works. I currently use Yahoo! Calendar, but it's so slow and Web 1.0-like. Give me Gmail for calendar.

David Berlind: MIT Media Labs director Nicholas Negroponte is on course to deliver a $100 laptop to the people who need it most: the world's children.  The first prototype, [cut] is on course to be shown-off for the first time on November 17 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis. 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935

Meg Hourihan: By paying great bloggers to produce Weblogs, we remove economic constraints and enable them to devote their energies full-time to producing compelling content and creating outstanding Weblogs.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/12/megnut.html

Randy: She said that 3 yrs ago. I'm surprised there are not more professional bloggers. Wouldn't it pay every Fortune 500 company to employ at least one?

NYPost: She was shown the door at her high-powered real estate job after an ambitious assistant tattled to executives about her online diary.

Randy: Anonymous blogs are not full protection against reprisal.

Universe Today: The latest images released from the Hubble Space Telescope pinpoint an enormous galaxy located almost 13 billion light-years away - at a time when the Universe was only 800 million years old. This galaxy contains 8 times the mass of stars as the Milky Way, and really shouldn't exist according to current astronomical theories. This research demonstrates that mature stars and large galaxies formed much earlier than astronomers had ever expected.

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/distant_galaxy_too_massive.html

I'm downloading Yahoo! Desktop Search. I found the Beta horribly buggy, but loved it when it didn't hang or crash. Here's my live blog entry about experiencing this latest version. CRASH!!!

An error occurred while attempting to download Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta.

That's what happened when I clicked the download button. Second time was a charm. Installed!

It hangs a lot still. I chose not to install the Yahoo! toolbar. It prompt me for my Yahoo! username and password. When I entered them, it responded that this function wasn't available unless I installed the Yahoo! toolbar. Why did they bother asking?

It's working and well! I can even see the new results as they become indexed. This makes Google Desktop Search and Windows Desktop Search useless. They will be uninstalled. Let's just hope YDS doesn't hang all the time, like it use too.

http://desktop.yahoo.com/

Update: Not perfect, but very close.

Google Blog: For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-wanted-something-special-for-our.html

Randy: That's a big index.

ComingSoon.net: The Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith DVD promises an experience that will thrill "Star Wars" fans worldwide, says Jim Ward, the DVD's executive producer and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd.

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11331

Randy: November 1st. That's all I needed to know.

I came to the realization today that many bloggers have very populist opinions. That is, they advocate whatever is popular with the majority. By the way, there are no populists opinions. Populism lacks any opinion. You're simply agreeing with the majority to curry favor. I think the government should give everybody $1 million too! Whatever!!! Read my blog.

Red Flag Deals: Audible.com is offering new subscribers a free iPod Shuffle if they sign on for a 6 month subscription.

http://www.redflagdeals.com/deals/main.php/weblog/tbp_sep_26_audible/

Wired: Transit officials in New York and San Francisco have launched a copyright crackdown on a website offering free downloadable subway maps designed to be viewed on the iPod. IPodSubwayMaps.com is the home of iPod-sized maps of nearly two dozen different transit systems around the world, from the Paris Metro to the London Underground.

http://www.ipodsubwaymaps.com/

Randy: The author has since made non-copyright infringing versions of the maps. This all worked out for the best and he got a little publicity too!

Gmail China, but not quite Google. Page loads in less than a minute and requires an ActiveX control.

http://gmail.cn/

Russell Beattie: I’ve been using Macs almost exclusively now for about 7 months - since just after I joined Yahoo! and got my PowerBook to go with my mini at home. Now that I’ve been using Macs for a while, I’m wondering if they’re all that special. [cut] Let me be more specific about what I see as non-plusses, I’ll just list them out in no special order, but conveniently numbered so the zealots can refer to each number directly while defending their beloved macs:

1. Anyone who says that Macs are more stable than Windows are smoking dope. I have two brand new Macs and they regularly go wacky and need reboots.
2. ... Randy: You can read the other 32 on Russell's blog.

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008631.html

Reuters: Microsoft Corp. and its longtime rival in the mobile software market, Palm Inc. Monday introduced a jointly developed cell phone that analysts say could prove a big hit among corporate users.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9492503/

Randy: Who would have thought?

I love Oleg's tagline.

http://www.olegdulin.com/

Human Rights News: As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff's department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail, Human Rights Watch said today.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/22/usdom11773.htm

Randy: What happened in the evacuation plans? Did they fail to account for the inmates?

Typepad: Pro Level subscribers have a fast and easy way to receive tangible feedback from their readers by adding a Tip Jar to their weblog sidebar.

http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2005/09/tips_accepted_h_1.html

Randy: Very cool! I have a tipjar too! But don't bother tipping, I'd appreciate a simple link much more.

1. Google Talk
2. Google Labs
3. Google Video

They are currently password protected.

What a great week. I had a big breakthru in earnings with Adsense and Amazon. There was even some speculation that I was gonna announce that I'm a 6 figure blogger. Well, I can safely tell you that even with my latest successes, I'm not making $274/day blogging. Either way, I'd like to thank my loyal readers; Dave, Oleg, Miel, John, Aimee, Steve, Chris, Scott et al. And don't forget all those blog comment SPAMmers who leave me 350 comments per day. I read each and every one. And most of all, thank you Google, for making it possible.

Yesterday, I received the following email from Flickr:

We received and have executed on a Notice of Infringement, deleting content (the photo you published of the iPods and transistors) from your photostream. In future, please refrain from posting material to Flickr if you don't have the necessary permissions. If we received subsequent NOI take down requests, we will take further action on your account that may include termination.

This was regarding a picture I uploaded to Flickr and posted on my blog. I asked Cory from BoingBoing about it, since he also posted it on his server and he said "We didn't have permission and we didn't get a takedown."

I really like Flickr, so I immediately deleted any pictures I could find in my account form the BBC or similar. I usually acknowledge the source on my blog and that's not immediately obvious to the author when he sees his picture in Flickr. Flickr didn't respond to my question as to whether the notice originated from John Ousby, the author. I guess from now on, when I discover an image and wish to share it, I'll search Flickr first and link it there, because you can always find it there.

I'm writing a new book. It's called Blogs of Dreams. It's about a farmer that keeps hearing "If you post it, I will link to it." while he farms his corn crops. He started a blog, he posted crap, I linked to it. He put up Adsense, sold the farm and retired.

If I send you this link by email, it means that I'm waiting for you to post something so that I can link to it. Post it! I rarely use bold.

CNN: A bus caught fire and exploded early Friday on a crowded Texas interstate, killing as many as 20 people who were fleeing ahead of Hurricane Rita. The bus, carrying about 45 elderly evacuees, burst into flames on Interstate 45 south of Dallas.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/23/rita/index.html

BBC: Amid talk of invention, no novelty is completely new?

This RV is currently for sale on eBay. You can have it for $5,000 USD. Thanks John!

cross-posted

Darren Rowse hinted yesterday of a new 6-figure blogger. There was even some minute speculation that maybe it was me. Thanks Ozh! I wish! Today, Darren announced it was The Manolo. A quick look at his blog, reveals he has 30 subscribers and I've never heard his blog mentionned before. Makes you wonder what a 6-figure blogger is? I guess in the Philippines, I'd be a 7-figure blogger.

cross-posted

Wait to you find out Scoble's alter ego. Watch him save the earth with an awesome blog post.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=118323

Nathan Weinberg: Google is now telling all Orkut users to upgrade to a full-fledged Google Account, the first move to unify logins across its properties.

CNN: Marine biologists have rescued the last four of eight trained dolphins that were swept to sea by Hurricane Katrina.[cut] Before the hurricane hit the coast on August 29, the dolphins were moved to a pool at the Marine Life Oceanarium that had withstood the destruction of Hurricane Camille in 1969. Katrina destroyed that pool and pulled the mammals out into the Gulf of Mexico. [cut] The dolphins appeared to have some large lacerations and were as much as 100 pounds underweight.

CNN: Ford Motor Co. plans to speed up its hybrid strategy and offer the fuel-efficient gas-electric cars on half its models in the next five years, according to a published report.

http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/AUTOS/09/21/ford_hybrid/index.html

Randy: Another day of high gas prices, another hybrid announcement.

10.  Won't make IE any better, its still old borrowed source code no one wants to work on with a deep coat of pixels and lipstick.
9. Won't make Vista run on a $200 3gHz Pentium IV without a $600 graphics card.
8. Won't make stealing everyone elses innovations seem any more noble, even if you fire those that arent good at it.
7. A company based on subterfuge, idea theft, and price gouging can only keep people interested as long as they arent the victims of it.
6. Linux, Firefox, Open Office and all that really good software that doesnt suck, need 8 updates a week, or need a staff of 12 to keep running effectively.
5. Its still a monopoly, and a monopoly doesnt have to run well to succeed, it just has to stay a monopoly, but eventually the wheels start to come off, and the wheels are shaking.
4. The company will continue to attract people with a bit of brains, luck, and absolutely no moral character, who leave 6 months after the ink on the business card is dry.
3. Don Box will continue prosthelitizing stuff he doesnt understand but is convinced he does
2. Corporate america will still look at the cash reserves at microsoft and realize thats from overpriced software they purchased.
1. anyone whos ever spent more than 15 minutes with either Bill G or Steve B knows what the real problem is.

I decided to try to find out, if any of my books are in Google Print. I didn't find any, but I did stumble across a book on "Computational Mathematics" that references my Website. I'm intrigued. What did I say that was worth referencing in a book on computational mathematics? To the bookstore Robin.

http://print.google.com/print?q=kbcafe

Google Blog: Today we learned that the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit to try to stop Google Print. We regret that this group chose to sue us over a program that will make millions of books more discoverable to the world -- especially since any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program. [cut] Google respects copyright. The use we make of all the books we scan through the Library Project is fully consistent with both the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law and the principles underlying copyright law itself, which allow everything from parodies to excerpts in book reviews.

Got a hummer? Watch it! Thanks Sis!

http://toccionline.kizash.com/movies/i_cant_afford_my_gasoline/

TR: Each year Technology Review identifies a unique group of young innovators, under 35 years old, who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business, technology and the arts.

http://www.tretc.com/tr35.asp

Randy: Congrats! And thanks for my photo repo.

Red Flag Deals: Points.com is offering free points to those who sign up for their service!  If you sign up, you have the option of getting 2500 free HBC points, 25 Aeroplan miles, or [other]. 

http://www.redflagdeals.com/deals/main.php/weblog/free_points_from_pointscom/

CNET: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?

Bill Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.

Randy: WTF? Google's slogan is "Don't be evil."

About: SaveMyAss is a personal assistant that keeps your girlfriend or wife happy by sending her flowers on your behalf, on a regular but semi-random basis.

http://savemyass.com/home

Randy: From the same people who brought us Hot or Not.

Google: Google Secure Access allows you to establish a more secure connection while using Google WiFi. By using Google Secure Access, your internet traffic will be encrypted, preventing others from viewing the information you transmit.

https://wifi.google.com/download.html

PR: Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser.

http://www.opera.com/

CNN: With Tropical Storm Rita nearing hurricane status off south Florida, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has halted the return of residents to his storm-ravaged city.

http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/US/09/20/katrina.impact/index.html

Randy: If Rita hits New Orleans, it might be enough to finish off the city forever and complete flood the area.

The Gazette: It's a scientific fact that adding hydrogen to a combustion chamber will cause a cleaner burn. The challenge has always been to find a way to get the hydrogen gas into the combustion chamber in a safe, reliable and cost-effective way. Williams claims he has achieved this with his H2N-Gen. His product, he said, produces a more complete burn, greatly increasing efficiency and reducing fuel consumption by 10 to 40 per cent - and pollutants by up to 100 per cent.

Read it!

IP Media Monitor: Google is reviewing bids it solicited from tech vendors to build a national optical DWDM network capable of pushing massive amounts of voice, video and data very close to end users. Even more interesting is that the purported cost of this dynamic national fiber fabric is under $100 million (not including dark fiber) and can be launched within a matter of months.

http://www.ipmediamonitor.com/subscribers/index.htm?iid=6&article_id=21

Randy: Article is free, but registration is required.

NASA: Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/cev.html

Randy: $104 billion? First there's the war on terrorism, then the rebuilding of New Orleans, now this. I'd hate to be an American tax payer.

CNN: Ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison Monday for his part in stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate.

Someone, most likely Google, has added an adword keyword campaign for 'failure' that explains why George W "Failure" Bush is the #1 result for the Google search for the keyword "failure".

An interview with Blogger of the Day, John of Freshblog.

iBt4iM: Tell my readers who you are.

John: Employed part-time providing information services to the public. Employed full-time rediscovering the world through the eyes of my 2 year old.

iBt4iM: What's your blog? What's your blog about?

John: Focussed on blogger hacks, tips & tricks, especially a system that uses del.icio.us to substitute for categories in blogger. I have tried to be a poliblogger and a culture blogger, but I found it hard to add anything original to existing conversations in those arenas. While I was trying these other topics, though, I got pretty good with add-ons & tricks in blogger. Now I'm finally finding my niche talking about blogging & tagging....

iBt4iM: What secondary blogs do you have? Linkblogs? Moblogs?

John: I am currently a monoblogger, but a podcasting project is in the works which will be unrelated in content to Freshblog, but will benefit from some of the tips that are documented there. Launching in the near future....

iBt4iM: Why do you blog?

John: To write, and to create something quickly that (for the most part) looks pretty good & works pretty well. Other people tear down car engines at the weekend, or refinish the basement... I seem to tinker with my template. To share what I know about getting blogger to work the way you'd like it to work. >To force me to read / understand / respond & to stay up-to-date with what's going on in the world / on the web. To be part of a community that shares information, builds on each other's work, and generously credits sources.

iBt4iM: What are your favorite blogs?

John: I like metroblogs, metablogs about blogging, and blogs that take the medium and do something unexpected with it. If you pin me down I'll give you the titles I submitted for 10blogs:

For the others that I read regularly, see my kinja digest, freshblog sidebar or bloglines blogroll.

iBt4iM: What do you do when you are not blogging?

John: Read books, on paper, with cover and bindings. Watch movies, spend time with the family... work, eat sleep...

iBt4iM: Thanks for taking the time to tell our readers about yourself. You are the Blogger of the Day.

Note: Blogger of the Day is a new series. We will interview one average-Joe great-blogger every few days (we hope). If you want to be the Blogger of the Day, then email me.

Previous Bloggers of the Day; Aimee Evans, Allen Searls, Steve Michel, Jon Watson, Dave Walker, Oleg Dulin and Miel Van Opstal.

When I search for really simple syndication, I only get 10 results. It says "1 - 10 of about 23,300,000", but there's not Next link. I can't reproduce this with any other search.

Google: If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. [cut] We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html

Randy: Let the people speak.

nature.com: Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa.

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050912/full/050912-6.html

PR: Rogers Communications and Bell Canada today announced an agreement to jointly build and manage a Canada-wide wireless broadband network expected to initially reach more than two-thirds of Canadians in less than three years.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2005/16/c0545.html

Randy: Sounds good, but anything involving Bell Canada is doomed from the start.

• 1001 horsepower
• $1.24M
• 16-cylinder
• In a 2003 public debut at Laguna Seca Raceway, a prototype Veyron spun out of control.
• Reports have placed the car's top speed at about 250 mph
• The enormous engine tended to overheat
• Unstable at high speeds..

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/funonwheels/09/16/bugatti_veyron/index.html

I wrote briefly about the veyron two years ago. I got lot's of hits, mostly because I mispelled it; Buggatti.

Print and save. No good for me. I haven't went to the theatre with another adult this decade. Been twice with the kids.

http://www.startsampling.com/sm/cineplex/images/coupon_en.jpg

Fake Google: Google [cut] announced tday its plans to enter the lucrative adult content market with a new search engine that will be kept separate from its main line of search services.

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2005/09/google-victim-of-press-release.html

Randy: :-)

John Battelle's new book called "The Search", which is getting rave reviews across the blogosphere is available for purchase on Amazon. BoingBoing claims to have a special publisher offer for 35% of the cover price. That's a big savings compared to the 34% just anybody can get by buying it at Amazon. I guess it's a matter of whether you want BoingBoing to get the kick back or me :-)

Buy it now!!!

Nathan Weinberg: Yahoo has added a Google Suggest-like search as you type feature, called Yahoo Instant Search. What’s interesting about theirs is that you can choose to make it the default interface at search.yahoo.com. As Philipp explains, when you start typing in a search, a bubble pops up with possible results.

http://instant.search.yahoo.com/

An interview with Blogger of the Day, Aimee Evans of DigitalGrit. Earlier in the same day, Aimee was also given the TrueGrit award as employee of the month at DigitalGrit. She's having a good day. Congrats!

iBt4iM: Tell my readers who you are.

Aimee Evans: I'm the head of marketing and PR for DigitalGrit, a full-service Web marketing firm in Boonton, NJ. I pretty much have the best job in the world, as corny as that sounds. I handle the marketing for DigitalGrit on the client side, so I promote all the excellent work we do in Search Engine Marketing, Online Marketing, Web Development, etc. I work in a cool office, I have trusting and supportive bosses and I have lots of autonomy, which I truly appreciate. I have the freedom to create the kind of campaigns that I think will be effective, and the ones that will be the most fun. (Of course, I still have to *prove* that they'll be effective, but I get to experiment with things like podcasts and wikis!) I really couldn't ask for a better work environment or a better company to work for. Before DigitalGrit, I worked for MarketingSherpa, which I'm really, really proud of. I spent a few years there, and I'm still really impressed with the work Anne Holland and her team produce. I was lucky enough to have worked with Anne in my first marketing position at a subsidiary of Phillips Publishing, and I was luckier still to have her as my mentor. You can't ask for a better marketing professor than that woman. I'm also a mom - and pregnant again. That's the best job of all. I have two boys, and, despite the popular assumption, I don't especially hope that this one will be a girl. Another boy would be just fine with me!

iBt4iM: What's your blog? What's your blog about?

Aimee Evans: "My" Blog is called "Getting Granular: The DigitalGrit Blog." So it's really the company blog. It's meant to be about Web marketing in general, and it's also meant to have a lot of search-related content, as DigitalGrit is a leader in both SEM and SEO. But as the "Queen of the Blog" (yes, that's my own, self-proclaimed title), the fact is that I'm really not a search expert, like most of our team. So the blog ends up being more about blogs, RSS, and PR - the things that interest me and that I know a lot about. I do welcome - and frequently solicit - guest posts from my much more knowledgeable co-workers, but everyone is so busy around here, it's hard to find contributors. However, when they do post, those guest posts generate more traffic and trackbacks than any other posts. (Hint, hint, DG staff!)

iBt4iM: What secondary blogs do you have? Linkblogs? Moblogs?

Aimee Evans: We're launching a sister company soon, http://www.relevantnoise.com, and I'll be blogging for that company, as well, although there's nothing posted there yet. I also run DigitalGrit's Job Blog, where we post open positions and company news. Additionally, I have two personal blogs on Blogger. One is about pediatric asthma. My oldest son is asthmatic, and I'm a total info-hound on the topic. I post all my findings and rants on that blog. The other blog is about my pregnancy. Fortunately, it's been a pretty easy one so far, so that blog's looking a little sparse! I haven't experimented with vlogs or moblogs yet...but I will. 

iBt4iM: Why do you blog?

Aimee Evans: Honestly, I started blogging with the asthma blog because I talk WAYYY too much. No one really cared about my theories regarding daycare culture or thimerosal bindings in pediatric vaccines. So I began to blog it all. I've always been a writer anyway, so blogging was just second nature. And at the "Anne Holland School of Copywriting," I was taught to keep my tone casual in my copywriting, even for business-to-business copy, and that works especially well in blogging. In biz blogging, your primary goal is to create a human voice for your company - no matter what the larger goal of your biz blog is (thought leadership, CRM, etc.) - so that casual, personable voice works particularly well.

iBt4iM: What are your favorite blogs?

Aimee Evans: I do love The RSS Blog, I have to admit. I think RSS technology is incredibly cool, and that blog is definitely the most up-to-date, definitive source for RSS info that I've found. So I like to keep up with that blogit. I also like:

...there are a ton more that I get feeds of or that I include in the blogroll on Getting Granular. Of course I read Jason Calacanis and Seth Godin like everyone else in marketing. And Dave Sifry, and lots of others.

iBt4iM: What do you do when you are not blogging?

Aimee Evans: There are a number of scenarios possible here: Scrambling to get the last minute details for an event or trade show ready, working on some DG-related campaign, hanging out with my kids, or rehearsing for my latest musical extravaganza! My days are pretty full and my interests diverse, so I've always got something going on.

iBt4iM: Thanks for taking the time to tell our readers about yourself. You are the Blogger of the Day.

Note: Blogger of the Day is a new series. We will interview one average-Joe great-blogger every few days (we hope). If you want to be the Blogger of the Day, then email me.

Previous Bloggers of the Day:

• Allen Searls
• Steve Michel
• Jon Watson
• Dave Walker
• Oleg Dulin
• Miel Van Opstal

Mark Evans: There's a whole new dot-com bubble happening.

http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/15/1229639.html

Alec Saunders: The New York Post reported this morning that Time Warner and Microsoft are in talks to sell a stake in AOL to Microsoft.

http://saunderslog.com/2005/09/15/aol-msn-in-talks/

Wired: Decrem and a small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California, have spent this summer quietly readying Flock, an open-source browser, for an early October beta launch. [cut] Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68823,00.html

Randy: Juice realized.

A couple months ago, Yahoo! MSGer started crashing on me regularly. It's getting to the point where it's no longer usable. I even downloaded the latest version and it still crashes. I'm now using Skype and Google Talk most all of the time and occasionally MSN MSGer.

Skype: randymorin
Yahoo: randymorin
MSN: randy@kbcafe.com
Google: randymorin

Update: Is Yahoo! MSGer malware? I have exited Yahoo! MSGer several times today, because it keeps crashing. An hour later, there it is in the system tray. It seems to be relaunching itself periodically. I've also disabled launching Yahoo! MSGer on Windows startup.

CBC: 30-year-old Jacqueline Perry and Mark Jordan, also 30, were attacked at a campsite in the provincial park, about 80 kilometres north of Chapleau. Ontario Provincial Police said that while the bear was attacking Perry, Jordan managed to stab it a few times with a Swiss Army knife in a frantic effort to keep it from dragging his wife into the woods.

Randy: My condolescenes to Mark, his family and Jacqueline's family. I worked with Mark at 724 Solution and he is a good person.

CNN: A wave of suicide bombings and other attacks rocked central Iraq Wednesday, killing at least 140 people and wounding more than 230, police said. Al Qaeda in Iraq, a group led by militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, apparently has said it is responsible.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.main/index.html

Randy: Four years after 9/11 and Al Qaeda is killing more people than ever. Bush has failed us. I'm tired of this. I'm getting ready to speak out against this. It's coming.

Did you know that Google now display the last time someone clicked on each link result and how many times? It doesn't display everytime..

click to enlarge

Update: Nick Douglas informs us that it's not the last time someone clicked on the link, but rather the last time (and how many times) you clicked on the link. Too cool!

Sean Alexander: We’ve started a blog designed to bring you closer to the process with the Gadgets blog and we’re kicking it off at the PDC. [cut] Gadgets come in three flavors:

• Gadgets for Windows Sidebar 
• Gadgets for Start.com 
• Gadgets for Windows SideShow

http://microsoftgadgets.com/

Microsoft: Max is [cut] your opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft. Today Max lets you make lists of your photos and turn them into beautiful slide shows to share with your family and friends.

http://www.microsoft.com/max/

Google has a Katrina search engine. The best features is the People Finder. Looking for a friend that lived in New Orleans? Google will help you find them. They also have an array of links to donation sites like the Red Cross.

http://www.google.com/katrina.html

Save an extra $100 on the [cut] Desktops with coupon code R2RJ$F06XZ4WDF. Save an extra $150 on the [cut] Notebooks with coupon code 78784GZ6775L01.

kung-foo.tv: Here's a 7-minute capture from a Japanese variety program. [cut] A character called “Hard Gay” [cut] thinks that the “Hoo!” in Yahoo! is stolen from his often used exclamation and goes to visit Yahoo! headquarters to try to get a deal.

http://blog.kung-foo.tv/archives/001535.php

Randy: Japanese TV rocks!

RedFlagDeals: It seems every store has a points program these days and while you may have a lot of points overall, they often spread over a half dozen programs.  Points.com will help you get the most from the airline award, accomodation reward, and frequent shopper programs to which you already belong.  Their site allows you to trade points among programs and even buy points if you need a few more to take advantage of an offer. 

http://points.com

MemeOrandum is an aggregator of the most popular news in Technology and Politics. Updating every 5 minutes, it finds which new articles are most popular in the blogosphere right now. Subscribed.

http://tech.memeorandum.com/

TimesOnline: Google, the internet search engine, is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1776740,00.html

Jeff Brady: Pumping water from Jefferson Parish may be causing water to rise again in New Orleans.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4841082

Randy: Click thru and listen to the full audio.

InternetNews: The deal, announced this morning, calls for Oracle to pay $10.66 per share for Siebel, with $3.61 billion net of Siebel's cash on hand of $2.24 billion.

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3547756

Randy: Maybe I can slip in a quit profit via this recent merger spree. Anybody want to buy KBCafe? $1B stock or I'll sell for less if cash is involved :-)

Niklas and Janus: When Janus and I originally created Skype, we had a vision of creating the world’s largest communications company to revolutionise the way everyone communicates through the internet. [cut] Now today we are thrilled to be joining forces with Meg Whitman and the fantastic team at eBay to help us deliver on our vision and help make Skype the voice of the Internet.

http://share.skype.com/developer_zone/developer_blog/skype_and_ebay_join_forces/

Translation: We didn't sell out. Really!

Randy: Congrats to Niklas and Janus! I'd sell out too for a $billion or 2.

Red Flag Deals: You can get a $10 Home Depot gift card for joining Domestic Divas by Chatelaine. The application is not currently live, but will be available later in the day. There’s only a total of 5000 cards, so supplies are limited!

http://domesticdivas.chatelaine.com/domestic/diva/English/

Tim Yang: I have a list called “Readers” in my RSS feed reader, but it’s still very thin and I’d like to boost it. So leave me a comment or write me an email. Thanks!

http://timyang.com/2005/09/tell-me-about-your-blog/

Randy: This is a great idea. If you are reading this blog regularly, then leave me a post or email once in awhile with a pointer back to your blog. Even, if it's just a "Hello, this is my blog."

Bloomberg: EBay Inc., the largest online marketplace, agreed to buy Skype Technologies SA for $2.6 billion in cash and stock.

Randy: Wow!

Mark Evans: Wow! eBay is Really Buying Skype. No other way to describe it but as stunning as the rumours about eBay Inc. acquiring Skype turned out to be true.

http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/12/1220318.html

Alec Saunders: I don’t think you can justify $2.6 billion for 52 million users, 2 million of whom are paying.  That’s $1300 per customer, so obviously Skype and EBay see a convergence of strategy. 

http://saunderslog.com/2005/09/12/mark-evans-on-ebay-skype/

We will find these people... We will find those responsible and bring them to justice.

Help Steve Ballmer throw a chair thru a wall and hit Kai-Fu Lee.

http://www.naiveamoeba.co.uk/index.asp?dir=2&id=11

Results from day 17, the final day, of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail (296)
3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail (308)

BoingBoing wins!!!

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

NPR: Henry Rodriguez, president of St. Bernard Parish, told Kestenbaum the first help he saw after the flooding came from another country -- fifty Canadian mounties, on day two of the disaster.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4838668

Randy: If Canada got there first, then hurray I'm proud. I'd hate to know I voted for him.

This guy was really bored. Very cool!

telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/

Results from day 16, the final four, of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail (274)
5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail (564)

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail (179)
3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail (399)

With two remaining competitors, tomorrow is the finals.

5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail 
3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites from the previous day. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

An interview with Blogger of the Day, Allen Searls of Wondir.com.

iBt4iM: Tell my readers who you are.

Allen Searls: Professionally speaking, I’m the VP of Community for Wondir, Inc.  Although the rest of the Wondir crew is in Bethesda, Maryland, I’m here in Seattle, where I first came to launch a company and website built around “the World Live Web” idea in 2001. Alas, social software wasn’t as well-received then as it is today (not even sure “social software” was readily in circulation as a term back then) and although we generated a devoted following and community, we weren’t able to get funding or make enough money from the site to keep it alive. When Wondir came along with a similar but more successful (and better timed) “Live Web” idea, built around free, open Live Q&A, I was invited to come on board and did so in early 2004. Before Seattle, I sold real estate in Alaska, and before that I attended UC Santa Cruz (creative writing and philosophy), University of Sussex, England (literature and philosophy) and Indiana University (business).

iBt4iM: What's your blog? What's your blog about?

Allen Searls: My weblog is called Wondiring. Used to be called Wondir Land, which I think is a slightly cooler name, but the regulars at Wondir started a Yahoo group called Wondirland, so I thought I’d change my blog’s name and let them have the cooler one J Wondiring is a quasi-corporate blog in the sense that it’s centered around Wondir.com and our pursuits in community Q&A, although the opinions are my own and don’t necessarily represent the views of Wondir the company. In general, I post about anything that compels me. I’m interested in all-things Web 2.0, especially the social media side of it. Since everyone seems to define Web 2.0 in a different light, I’ll coin my own definition of Web 2.0:  the sea change from a web of documents and transactions to a web of people and interactions. Defined as such, I want to encourage and participate in the Web 2.0 sea change as much as possible. It’s not that I think documents and transactions are unimportant. It’s just that the social side of the web is much more interesting to me and ultimately where I feel the greatest potential for growth and invention lies.

iBt4iM: What secondary blogs do you have? Linkblogs? Moblogs?

Allen Searls: Although Wondiring is technically my only blog (I do break it down by category), Wondir also has the Daily Wondir blog, as well as RSS feeds for all questions asked at Wondir, which is generally more than 5,000 question-posts per day right now. In that sense you can think of the catch-all Wondir Question Board as one big blog.

iBt4iM: Why do you blog?

Allen Searls: My father originally got me into it, but I find that it’s a compulsive necessity these days, especially if you’re handling an online community—not only to talk out loud about what’s happening in the area you care about and are responsible for, but to keep your ear to the blogosphere to find out what you’re missing (which is always much more than you imagine). Bloggers I’ve met through my blog, such as Cori Schlegel and Peter Caputa, have been instrumental in opening up new directions for Wondir, not to mention opening my mind to new dimensions of Web 2.0.

iBt4iM: What are your favorite blogs?

Allen Searls: These are in first-name alphabetical order so my favorites list doesn’t have any favoritism J

• Cori Schlegel: House of the Hanged Man (http://kinrowan.net/)
• Doc Searls: Doc Searls Weblog (http://doc.weblogs.com/ )
• Jeff Clavier: Software Only ( http://blog.softtechvc.com/)
• Ken Joseph: Bond Hunter’s Guide to Wondir (http://bondhunter.blogspot.com )
• Peter Caputa: pc4media (http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/)
• Randy Charles Morin: iBLOGthere4iM (http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/)
• The Daily Wondir (http://wondiring.typepad.com/dailywondir/)
• Rojo Blog (http://blog.rojo.com/rojoblog/)
• Wondir- All Questions Feed (http://www.wondir.com/wondir /jsp/rssIntro.jsp?catid=1)

iBt4iM: What do you do when you are not blogging?

Allen Searls: I’m an amateur offline writer. Spend lots of time with my fiancée and our miniature dachshund (wiener dog), who is smaller than most of his toys. Try (usually in vain) to get away from this computer J

iBt4iM: Thanks for taking the time to tell our readers about yourself. You are the Blogger of the Day.

Note: Blogger of the Day is a new series. We will interview one average-Joe great-blogger every few days (we hope). If you want to be the Blogger of the Day, then email me.

Previous Bloggers of the Day:

• Steve Michel
• Jon Watson
• Dave Walker
• Oleg Dulin
• Miel Van Opstal

The Globe: 300 [cut] to 400 [cut] will be given medical attention and new clothes courtesy of Palm Beach residents, and then taken to Magna's new training facilities at nearby Palm Meadows. There they will be housed in facilities intended for grooms and thoroughbred trainers, fed at a brand-new state-of-the-art cafeteria and, some time within the next two months, returned to Louisiana to live in a 240-hectare trailer park yet to be built.

I'm not joking. Here's the Website.

http://www.infauxmedia.com/swmusical/musical.htm

Ken Fisher: It appears as though Google's home state of California may be drafting legislation to make Google's planned business model illegal. [cut] At the head of the debate is Google's AdSense technology, technology that analyzes the words and content of a selection of text in order to determine the statistically-best text ads to serve. Privacy advocates argue that analyzing a user's e-mail is an invasion of privacy, even if it is done by a machine and even if someone agrees that this is allowable in a Terms of Service agreement.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040413-3645.html

Randy: Anti-SPAM software works by analyzing a user's email. I'd hate to live in California. Could you image a world with anti-SPAM software? Gmail currently filters out 10k emails per month by having a machine analyze my emails.

Tim Bray: Britt Blaser is posting news of a remarkable offer from Pfizer; emergency, free prescription filling for all their products for Katrina survivors. Good on ya Pfizer, and since I haven’t seen this in the mainstream news, other bloggers might want to pass the word on.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/09/08/Pfizer-Special-Offer

Randy: Pfizer +1 million karma.

PR: Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist. [cut] Vinton (Vint) Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a "founding father" of the Internet [and] who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that were used to develop the Internet's underlying architecture.

Results from day 15, the round of eight, of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail (197)
9 - Michelle Malkin RSS R|mail (129)

29 - AMERICAblog RSS R|mail (97)
5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail (294)

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail (174)
10 - PostSecret RSS R|mail (40)

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail (287)
59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail (78)

We are now down to four competitors. The final four will playoff tomorrow to determine who will meet in the finals.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail
5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail 

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail 
3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites from the previous day. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

Santa Cruz Sentinel: The hurricane has set off the beginning stages of bogus charity e-mails, "phishing" and other scams to exploit Americans’ emotional response to the tragedy.

cross-posted

I've received two indications that Google is having trouble authenticating users across many of their products; talk, Gmail, Adsense.

1. http://blog.coolz0r.com/posted/funky-google-message.html
2. http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20050609064153

Normally I wouldn't report two failures, but Google is so reliable that it's nice to see them struggle a bit.

George Bush Sr and Bill Clinton: We are calling on all Americans to help the people of the Gulf Coast region by making as generous of a contribution as you can to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund.

http://bushclintonkatrinafund.org/

Randy: I wish they had banners I could put on my blogs.

About: Live at the Seoul Animation Festival in 2003.

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=5YVE696NVWI

About: Comprising 358 frames taken over 24 hours, the movie follows Earth through one complete rotation. The spacecraft was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America when the camera started rolling on Aug. 2. It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth – farther than the Moon’s orbit – when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3.

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/flyby_movie.html

Video

PR: Apple Computer Wednesday unveiled a much-anticipated cell phone that plays MP3 music files and an ultra-thin thin iPod music player that Apple CEO Steve Jobs predicted will eventually become its most popular music player. The Motorola Rokr phone was developed by Motorola and will play digital songs that consumers can download from Apple's iTunes music service.

Randy: Also, download iTunes 5.0.

Suzzanna Decantworthy: How to use two mobile phones to cook an egg.

http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm

Results from day 14 of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail (199)
15 - Instapundit.com RSS R|mail (12)

58 - BuzzMachine RSS R|mail (63)
10 - PostSecret RSS R|mail (65)

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail (303)
14 - Media Matters RSS R|mail (41)

59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail (101)
11 - Common Dreams RSS R|mail (100)

This brings us to our final eight blogs. All eight remaining blogs will compete tomorrow.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail
9 - Michelle Malkin RSS R|mail

29 - AMERICAblog RSS R|mail
5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail 

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail 
10 - PostSecret RSS R|mail

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail
59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites from the previous day. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

BBC: Apple kick-started the speculation when it sent out invites to the press conference featuring text that read: "1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4222394.stm

contactmusic: Bacon has learned to accept his link to the game and now owns the domain name www.sixdegrees.org, with which he hopes to spark an environmental crusade.

Seth Godin: I divide the blog world into three groups and turn my attention to one. And in particular, I try to sell you hard on how building a blog asset can have a spectacular impact on you, your career, your organization and your ideas.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/files/whos_there.pdf

Barbara Bush: And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this is working very well for them.

Audio

Randy: WTF? I'm listening to Winer right now, so I'm bookmarking the audio so I can hear this for myself later.

Update: WTF? I wonder if CNN will pick this up. Love to see this tonight with full commentary. After listening, I editorialize out the (she chuckles slightly) part that you might see on other blogs. That was liberal propaganda. I guess the liberals didn't learn from the last election that trying to out lie the other side doesn't work. On the whole, you get what you vote for.

I'm not a gadget kind of geek, but I thought this was cool!

click here for product details

CNN: Late last week, Georgia legislators suspended the 7.5 cents-a-gallon gas tax and 4 percent sales tax on gasoline until Oct. 1. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said the tax break in Georgia could cut the cost of gas by about 15 cents a gallon.

Randy: This is an illusion. The reason that the price is high is because their is an imbalance in the demand and supply of crude. Reducing the tax on gasoline, increases demand, which increases the imbalance and the tax reduction gets filtered out. The economist working for the state of Georgia know this, as do the governor and legislators of Georgia. They are simply being populists at the expense of good government.

Last week, I installed Yahoo! Desktop Search. This morning, Explorer.exe kept crashing. When this happens, my first thought is always, what did I recently install. I tried uninstalling YDS. The uninstaller would crash. After multiple reboots and manually removing YDS from the Startup folder (most users wouldn't know how to do this) I successfully uninstalled YDS. Problem disappeared. YDS = crapware!

http://desktop.yahoo.com/

Results from day 13 of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail (165)
49 - Schneier on Security RSS R|mail (21)

8 - Gizmodo RSS R|mail (48)
9 - Michelle Malkin RSS R|mail (105)

29 - AMERICAblog RSS R|mail (108)
13 - Creative Commons Blog - rss RSS R|mail (53)

5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail (266)
12 - The Huffington Post | Full Blog Feed RSS R|mail (122)

Engadget, Michelle Malkin, AMERICAblog and Daily Kos are the first four blogs in the final 8. They will play each other on September 8th.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail
9 - Michelle Malkin RSS R|mail

29 - AMERICAblog RSS R|mail
5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail 

Tomorrow's matches.

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail 
15 - Instapundit.com RSS R|mail

58 - BuzzMachine RSS R|mail
10 - PostSecret RSS R|mail

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail
14 - Media Matters RSS R|mail

59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail
11 - Common Dreams RSS R|mail

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

An interview with Blogger of the Day, Steve Michel of Steve's No Direction Home Page.

iBt4iM: Tell my readers who are you.

Steve Michel: Just a middle-aged (if I live to be 100!) white guy living in the Bay Area. I'm a PHP/MySQL programer, database/scripting guy in general. I used to write for computer magazines, back a long time ago, when that was lucrative. In my mind, I'm still a 17 year-old farm boy who's spent too much of his life on a Massey-Ferguson 135.

iBt4iM: What's your blog? What's your blog about?

Steve Michel: The blog is pretty much about anything I'm reading and thinking. I generally link to most everything I read, at least the non-technical stuff. I read so much PHP/MySQL/JavaScript, that for some reason I don't link to many of those articles. I keep telling myself I'm going to start up a secondary blog about that stuff, but there are so many good blogs covering them.

iBt4iM: What secondary blogs do you have? Linkblogs? Moblogs?

Steve Michel: A few Flickr postings.

iBt4iM: Why do you blog?

Steve Michel: Mostly to point interesting things out to my reader(s). I know of half a dozen friends who read the thing, at least off and on, and I generally am thinking of them as a group when I post. It's more fun than emailing articles around. It's also fun knowing that I'm making at least a small contribution to getting some good stuff noticed on the search engines. Sometimes I like to, as Dylan said, "needle" my perceived audience, mostly to point out interesting stuff.

iBt4iM: What are your favorite blogs?

Steve Michel: I don't think much that's unusual. Robot Wisdom, Boing Boing, iBt4iM, Dvorak, Winer, Sylvia Paull, Oliver Willis, Macintouch, GoodShit, Daring Fireball. I have nearly 1,000 in my NetNewsWire subscription list!

iBt4iM: What do you do when you are not blogging?

Steve Michel: I like my family, movies, SF Giants games, reading, bike riding, tomatoes, brewing, cooking, eating, Dylan, HBO series, poker, not in any particular order.

iBt4iM: Thanks for taking the time to tell our readers about yourself. You are the Blogger of the Day.

Blogger of the Day is a series where we will interview one average-Joe great-blogger every few days (we hope). If you want to be the Blogger of the Day, then email me.

Previous Bloggers of the Day:

• Jon Watson
• Dave Walker
• Oleg Dulin
• Miel Van Opstal

Results from day 12 of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail (371)
30 - The Smoking Gun RSS R|mail (36)

14 - Media Matters RSS R|mail (60)
19 - Joystiq RSS R|mail (55)

59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail (155)
38 - Luxist RSS R|mail (43)

11 - Common Dreams RSS R|mail (160)
22 - Lifehacker RSS R|mail (30)

The winners will play each other on September 7th.

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail
14 - Media Matters RSS R|mail

59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail
11 - Common Dreams RSS R|mail

Tomorrow's matches and the beginning of the 3rd round. The first two rounds took 12 days. The rest of the tournament will take 5 days.

1 - Engadget RSS R|mail
49 - Schneier on Security RSS R|mail 

8 - Gizmodo RSS R|mail
9 - Michelle Malkin RSS R|mail

29 - AMERICAblog RSS R|mail
13 - Creative Commons Blog - rss RSS R|mail

5 - Daily Kos RSS R|mail 
12 - The Huffington Post | Full Blog Feed RSS R|mail 

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

Results from day 11 of the Ultimate Blogging showdown.

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail (161)
34 - Eschaton RSS R|mail (98)

15 - Instapundit.com RSS R|mail (337)
18 - Gawker RSS R|mail (156)

58 - BuzzMachine RSS R|mail (48)
39 - Little Green Footballs RSS R|mail (42)

10 - PostSecret RSS R|mail (30)
23 - The Hype Machine - Blog Music RSS R|mail (7)

The winners will play each other on September 6th.

2 - deviantART.com RSS R|mail 
15 - Instapundit.com RSS R|mail

58 - BuzzMachine RSS R|mail
10 - PostSecret RSS R|mail

Tomorrow's matches.

3 - Boing Boing RSS R|mail
30 - The Smoking Gun RSS R|mail

14 - Media Matters RSS R|mail
19 - Joystiq RSS R|mail

59 - Wonkette RSS R|mail
38 - Luxist RSS R|mail

11 - Common Dreams RSS R|mail
22 - Lifehacker RSS R|mail

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

Winners are decided by which blog has the most inbound linking Websites. If you wanted to vote for tomorrow's matches, then you have to link to these blogs today for your vote to count tomorrow. Results are determined using PubSub SiteStats.

All the results and the rules are found on the Ultimate Blogging Showdown homepage.

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/ultimate.blogging.html

Washington Post: There were many corpses, and wounded on the street, and an apartment building was burning. This was the first time in my life I had seen with my own eyes a real scene like this, not through the news. It was a true disaster, which I will never forget as long as I live.

Randy: No, it's not New Orleans. But maybe now we understand. This is a must read for anybody who considers themself to be human.

Adam Cohen: If a flood of Biblical proportions were to lay waste to New Orleans, Joe Suhayda has a good idea how it would happen. A Category 5 hurricane would come barreling out of the Gulf of Mexico. It would cause Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, to overflow, pouring down millions of gallons of water on the city. Then things would really get ugly. Evacuation routes would be blocked. Buildings would collapse.

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,997384,00.html

Randy: He wrote that five years ago. So much evidence that this would happen and we sit here today in disbelief and disorganization. If that happened on my software project, then I'd point at the project manager and tell him he should be fired.

Shirley Laska: New Orleans was spared, this time, but had it not been, Hurricane Ivan would have:

• Pushed a 17-foot storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain;
• Caused the levees between the lake and the city to overtop and fill the city “bowl” with water from lake levee to river levee, in some places as deep as 20 feet;
• Flooded the north shore suburbs of Lake Pontchartrain with waters pushing as much as seven miles inland; and
• Inundated inhabited areas south of the Mississippi River.

Up to 80 percent of the structures in these flooded areas would have been severely damaged from wind and water. The potential for such extensive flooding and the resulting damage is the result of a levee system that is unable to keep up with the increasing flood threats from a rapidly eroding coastline and thus unable to protect the ever-subsiding landscape.

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/nov04/nov04c.html

Randy: All predicted, but there was no plan.

Mark Lucovsky: At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." ....

http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.php

I'm tired of having to upgrade my software because of proprietary formats. If it's not MPG, then IT SUCKS!!! I think everybody agrees with me, except Microsoft, Apple and Real. Tell all your buddies at Microsoft about this standard. And thank them for not hi-jacking my application settings like Quicktime or Real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG

Scoble. Robert Scoble. Scobleizer.

My blogs are getting really popular right now. I'm pretty happy about that. But I think this is happening for a bad reason. You see, my blogs accept comments. Other blogs have comment forms (but less so everyday), but for whatever reason, clicking submit doesn't get your comment posted. This is usually caused by stupid anti-SPAM algorithms that more often than not prevent real comments, rather than SPAM. I don't know how many times, I've tried to post today, only to encounter a SPAM filter that doesn't allow you to post comments with the word 'fun' in it (or whatever reason). It's getting pretty frustrating. I've decided to start unsubbing from blogs that implement such stupid algorithms.

First case in point - Frank Arrigo. I even tried submitting to his Contact page and nothing happened. Unsubbed.