Winners, Losers, Quitters...and Passings
Buzz is starting to filter through the blogging universe, now that the 2006 Bloggies have been awarded to the best blogs of the year. Bostonist (not a winner) has some of the awards. Among the winners: Boing Boing (a consistent top-ranked blog at BlogPulse.com) and PostSecret, Frank Warren's postcard blog of anonymous secrets, which was profiled today in USA Today.
No more Chef?
Singer Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef on Comedy Central's "South Park," is today's 13th most-blogged-about personality for quitting the show because of its spoof about Scientology (today's top and No. 19 news story). "Hypocrisy piled on top of hypocrisy" is one blogger's reaction; Delusions of Grandeur notes other discrepancies in the singer's sudden attack of conscience.
Google on a tear
Google's managed to create more buzz in the past week, first by snapping up Writely/Upstart (today's No. 12 top blog post), then by launching Google Mars (today's top link) and then by acquiring 3-D software firm @Last Software this week (today's No. 16-17 most-cited links). Google's also being asked to turn over search data to the federal government, and the judge overseeing the case is today's fifth-burstiest person.
Passings
Today's burstiest personalities make the list for tragedies this week: former game show host Peter Tomarken was killed in a plane crash in California, and Tara Rose McAvoy, Miss Deaf Texas, was killed by a train.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at March 15, 2006 11:19 AM
