A Day for Winners and Losers

Like Boston fans a year earlier, the Sox fans in Chicago are celebrating a long-awaited World Series Championship in a four-game sweep that included today's burstiest phrase: the longest World Series game ever. Go Sox!

Conservatives are also claiming victory, undoubtedly, with today's news that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name from the judge pool. Given what many claimed was a lack of a paper trail for Miers, critics and reporters nonetheless uncovered one in the past few weeks (today's 9th most-shared link among bloggers). BlogPulse's trend graph capabilities captured the chatter about confirmation vs. withdrawal since the day Miers' name was first announced:



A new Google thing?
For a brief time Thursday, a project called Google Base (today's No. 3 link, although the site's not actually working now) was live on the Internet, and a number of bloggers, including ars technica, got a sneak peak at this one-stop content collection shop, or whatever it's going to be. Citations linked to the site included plenty of foreign commentary.

Reporting under fire
Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin has taken on USA Today for altering a photo of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. And in reporting of another kind, the blogger at The Fourth Rail is asking for donations so he can be embedded with the Marines to cover operations in Iraq's Anbar Province. To circle back to the content of that aforementioned USA Today article, will the Fourth Rail be invited back in 10 years?