Goodbye to "West Wing" and the Whale, Hello to Prizefighters and Election-Fraud Scares

Just when you think you can guesstimate what bloggers will be talking about from day to day, they throw you a loop. Such that today's two burstiest people are boxers Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales, in which the former beat the latter at a match in Las Vegas. Filipino bloggers are crazy for their newfound hero.

Vote's in: "West Wing's out
TV fans are mourning the pending loss of NBC's "West Wing," which is why actors Jimmy Smits amd Alan Alda, and NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly are among today's most-discussed personalities as well. So is the late actor John Spencer, whose untimely real-life death several weeks ago apparently sealed the show's fate. (Smits and Alda are running against each other for president in the show, a well-timed theme given the contents of today's third most-cited news story about election fraud...and how easy it would be (was?) to execute. The govtv blog calls it "vapor voting." The story's starting to generate conversation.

What are TV fans watching?




So long, whale
The BBC continues to rank among the most-cited new sources by bloggers, this week no doubt because of the whale tale (the day's second most-cited news story). The GlasgowGal blogger happened to hear the news while reading The Whale Rider. Coincidence? You decide.

PostSecret...more revealing
PostSecret continues to be one of the most popular blogs (No. 5 today) for the anonymous postcards that carry people's innermost secrets. Site owner Frank Warren has started adding email commentary from viewers (and senders), to give it an even more personal touch.

BlogPulse update: LiveJournal
If you encounter "Page Not Found" errors while clicking on LiveJournal entries today, manually remove the "www" from the URL to get the link to work. Over the weekend, LiveJournal changed its standard URL format and removed the www from links, which now start directly with "username.livejournal.com" instead of www.livejournal.com/username. BlogPulse is working on a fix that will soon make the LiveJournal links work properly.