"Star Wars" is Hot, Blogging is Hard....

This week's release of the final movie in the Star Wars series is certainly generating "buzz" among movie fans. Characters Padme Amidala and General Grievous appear among today's top blog personalities because of a QuizFarm "Which Sith Character are you?" game that's being shared among bloggers.

Episode III "Revenge of the Sith" has consitently maintained higher levels of buzz than most of 2005's other planned action/fantasy movies, not to mention "Robots" and "Hitch," the year's top-grossing films to date:



The Organic Trade Association's "Grocery Store Wars" continues to ride the rebellion popularity wave, clocking in at today's No. 3 top link.

How hard can blogging be?
Rutgers Professor David Greenberg's fill-in stint as a blogger, chronicled in Sunday's New York Times, is receiving the kind of commentary he realized he didn't appreciate when he was blogging. The Weblogg-ed blogger has little compassion while blogger Daniel Drezner, for whom Greenberg did the favor, offers his thanks and personal observations.

Also grabbing attention is Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker's apology for publishing information that may have fueled riots and deaths last week in Afghanistan. While not retracting the report that U.S. interrogators may have flushed a copy of the Qur'an down a toilet, Whitaker now says once-reliable sources who confirmed the information have now backed off. Reactions range from the commentary at Liberals Against Terrorism to Powerline Blog.

And in case you were wondering, comedian Dave Chappelle is just fine, thanks.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Darth Vader continues to out-buzz Yoda in the Star Wars character popularity contest -- but only by a helmet's length?