Blogomania: The NYT has an article about the rate of blog creation: "Nearly 80,000 new blogs are created every day, and there are some 14.2 million in existence already, 55 percent of which remain active." Well, with all those options, I'd like to thank the five people that read mine! (The BBC actually had an article a couple days ago already on the topic of blog creation: 1 per second)
I still remember the day I started this undertaking: it was early June in DC; my boss was out of town. I had been grappling with small pangs of guilt hitting me everytime I sent out an email encouraging my friends and family to read an interesting article. As the quantity of emails I sent began rising to 20, 25, 30 per day, I became awash in guilt. Fortunately, I had an epiphany: "Start a blog!" Yes, I remember it as if it were just a few of weeks ago... (oh, yeah. It was just a few weeks ago. But apparently I have inspired another blog, which is quite flattering... just the ego boost I need to keep me going.)

Blogworthy: There is some speculation swirling as to why Bob Novak weirdly left the CNN set (it was a very weird exit, wasn't it? He sort of sat a couple of second being ignored before getting up and tepidly walking off.) Paul Krugman talks about fake research.