Blogs: A Hot Topic....And BlogPulse's Youngest Fan

Just got back from the Jupiter Search Engine Strategies conference in New York City where blogs were hot -- blogs for public relations, blogs for marketing, blogs for advertising, blogs as media. Everybody was talking about blogs and their impact.

At Intelliseek's BlogPulse headquarters, everyone's talking about
BlogPulse's most youthful fan (pictured at right), the daughter of senior research scientist Matthew Hurst. She's sporting the latest in spring fashion gear, the BlogPulse.com T-shirt.

Microsoft's Bill Gates will soon be sporting something new -- a royal title. He's being given honorary knighthood status by Britan's Queen Elizabeth for his contributions to the business world. Elsewhere on the computer scene, Yahoo announced some new Web Services this week, and a bunch of computers were allowed to operate on the Internet unprotected.

In the land of scientific experimentation, how about a global jump? A bunch of scientists have organized World Jump Day for July 20, 2006, a day when everyone's supposed to jump at the same time to throw the earth slightly off orbit. It's today's 27th most shared link. (I'm scheduled to jump at 4:39:13...I'll wear comfortable shoes).

And not to brag or anything, but I took the Commonly Confused Words Test, today's top link, and scored "Advanced." (Sister Mary Protasia, rest her soul, would be proud).

Legal eagles are also getting plenty of traction among bloggers today, including speculation about the the bizarre Chicago deaths this week of the mother and husband of U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefko, recently the target of a murder plot by white supremacist Matthew Hale.

Other are discussing this week's Supreme Court ruling that declared unconstitutional the death penalty for juveniles under 18. The Roper vs. Simmons case was based on the murder conviction of Christopher Simmons, who was 17 when he murdered a woman -- and apparently bragged that he could get away with because of his age.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Post-Oscar buzz shows a slight uptick for best actress winner Hillary Swank, and although Jamie Foxx took hom the trophy, Johnny Depp (no doubt a favorite among LiveJournal teen bloggers) still gets most of the attention.