Just What the Internet Needs...More Porn?

Two reactions to the news that .xxx will become the newest Internet domain, thanks to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Does this mean the spammers will follow (please?), and does the Internet really need MORE porn? The Uneasy Silence blog calls it the Internet's red-light district, and AfterWords blog offers commentary...and a poem!

More on Deep Throat
Seems everyone has an opinion about the motives of "Deep Throat," now revealed as former FBI director Mark Felt. Ben Stein's "Nixon wasn't such a bad guy" American Specatator Essay omits the tiny detail that 40 Nixon appointees/government officials were indicted and/or jailed because of Watergate. BlueBus blog says Stein is "off his rocker," while Grouchy Old Cripple says Nixon was more liberal/less at fault than President Bill Clinton. Talking Points Memo asks the question: had Felt reported wrongdoing to higher-ups, as critics suggest a good FBI man should do, just which higher-ups was he supposed to trust?

How has Deep Throat discussion affected bloggers' references to the Washington Post? Here's a look at buzz for three leading news sources among bloggers -- with the Post showing a definite spike since last weekend's revelation:



Interesting finds in the blogosphere
Today's top links uncover a host of fun things: Carmen Sandiego has been found, if you just know where to look (Google), blogger Pork Tornado posts the 10 worst album covers of all time (is that Tootsie on cover No. 9?), and a San Francisco 49ers "training video" is making the rounds on the Internet (and cost PR man Kirk Reynolds his job because of the adult content and stereotype-driven jokes).

The Life Cycle of Bloggers
If you haven't read it yet, catch Min Jung's tongue-in-cheek essay on blogging.