Political News Across the Border(s)
On any typical BlogPulse Day, President Bush and Harry Potter duke it out for No. 1 position among the list of most blogged-about people. But not today. New Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and just-ousted Liberal PM Paul Martin both rank higher than the Prez. Beyond the Punchline blog already features a cartoon tapping into speculation that the new Candadian government (today's top news story) will have closer ties to the ever-eloquent President Bush.
Middle Eastern borders
Among today's top blog posts is another tale of governments across the borders: Israel and Iran. The Canadian-citizen blogger who writes about Iran at E:M (Editor:Myself) is visiting Israel: "As a citizen journalist, I'm going to show my 20,000 daily Iranian readers what Israel really looks like and how people live there." Andy Carvin calls it a one-man peace mission.
TV and Search Shakeups
It's all called "media" these days, and it's changing in big ways. Today's No. 2 top link tells of plans to merge UPN and WB into one happy CW network, operated by CBS and Warner Bros. "If Veronica Mars survives, I'm happy," says the War Liberal blogger. Logopolis has his own mathematical formula for the merger: Netlet + Netlet = Actual Network? On the Internet side of the media, Yahoo's apparently satisfied to play straight man to Google's lead in the search engine biz (today's No. 8 most-cited link). Says Micropersuasion's Steve Rubel: If Yahoo!'s giving up on dominating search, he's giving up on Yahoo!
Unexpected finds
Bloggers always seem to find a few unexpected tidbits, including this BBC story about economic optimism around the world and today's burstiest person, columnist Joel Stein, who's sure to rankle a few backbones with today's top blog post, his LA Times essay "Warriors and Wussies."
Posted by Sue MacDonald at January 25, 2006 10:44 AM
