Did You Ever Get That Strange Sensation of Deja Vu?

This week, a Reuters study found that the 2004 Presidential election coverage was more negative toward President Bush than challenger John Kerry, and suddenly, it's as if the blogosphere has time-traveled to last November.

There's talk of California Judge Richard Kramer's decision that overturned California's ban on gay marriage. The Democrats are still going after House Majority Leader Tom Delay over ethics issues involving fund-raising and lobbyist activities. Emboldened right-wingers continues their attack on Darwinian evolution in science classes, and Bush confidante/advisor Karen Hughes is officially back in the administration fold as an Undersecretary of Diplomacy. Meanwhile, charges continue about manipulation of the news media by canned "news segments" issued by and paid for by government agencies. Is Thanksgiving just around the corner or something? Sure feels that way.

(One more time: Intelliseek senior researcher Natalie Glance, has co-authored a paper, The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog, with Lada Adamic of HP Labs. It examines the posts of 40 "A-list" conservative and liberal blogs in the two months leading up to the Nov. 2004 Presidential Election and includes a one-day snapshot of more than 1,000 political blogs).

In the blogosphere, the call is going out now to nominate favorite blogs for the 2005 Bloggie Awards. (Hint: all you BlogPulse devotees? Knock yourselves out on the nomination forms....). Technorati CEO David Sifry summarizes the state of blogging, and blog buzz (and criticism) hasn't abated over AOL's terms of service ("we own all content, you have no privacy rights") for its popular instant messenger service.

Anticipation corner: Macintosh users are starting to hear more and more about the spring release of OS X 10.4 Tiger...perhaps in April? And X-men fans seem pleased that Matthew Vaughn has been chosen to direct the X-men 3.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Have you ever been driven nuts by business jargon? Wanted to hand someone a dictionary and say, "Here. Speak English, please." A recent list of overused business phrases finds that "at the end of the day" takes the cake over "win-win" and "think outside the box."