Bloggers Cover Their Favorite Subject: Themselves?
Never let it be said that bloggers are empty in the ego department. News that blogger Robert Scoble (today's sixth most-blogged personality) is leaving Microsoft (for Podtech Network Inc) is by far the biggest blog news of the day. So much so that over the weekend, Scoble himself had to set the record straight about why he's leaving, and that piece of writing is today's No. 2 most-cited blog post. The blogger at Publishing 2.0 likens it to the Pope leaving Catholicism, while another simply wishes him well.
And that's not all...
And what's the most-cited news story? Bloggers meeting with other bloggers: the recently completed DailyKos convention of progressive/liberal bloggers held over the weekend in Las Vegas. "Cogito, ergo blog," writes the Mahablogger ("I think, therefore I blog").
World Cup fun and games
Before the FIFA World Cup soccer championship began last Friday, Mighty Optical Illusions deocrated soccer balls representing each country and asked readers to explain the themes. And check out the varied topics discovered by searching the posts in today's No. 13 most-blogged phrase, "watching the World Cup." They encompass everything from watching the games on a rainy weekend to small-screen viewing (why?) to riots in Mogadishu, where residents protested when Islamic leaders prevented them from watching the games on "evil" television. And the knitters are back at it with the Knitting World Cup, whereby knitters (who did the same during the summer Olympics) create knitting projects from opening game (June 9) to final match (July 9).
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 12, 2006 10:25 AM
