Not quite caught up with blog reading, but it should be a quiet day at work so I'm hoping to get squared away and write at least one essay before we get to leave at 3 PM (I do like me them Fridays before 3-day holiday weekends). Speaking of caught up, have you been following the Contagious Media Showdown sponsored by Eyebeam? Apparently it's some sort of contest where very good web designers make up outrageous or just plain silly sites and compete for hit counts. You may recognize at least one leading site, "Forget Me Not Panties," from the controversy it's stirred up among many feminist blogs (I mentioned that a couple days ago); it's currently in fourth place. In third at the moment is Blogebrity, a supposed celebrity-style magazine about the blogosphere which has also fooled tons of folks in the blogosphere who think it's for real. One of my favorites, Auto Blogger, is in eighth place at the moment, and I hope it moves up a few notches. I highly recommend that any bloggers who come across a site they find too strange or amazing to believe, at least through the end of the contest on June 9, check out the Showdown scoreboard first before blogging about it, in the same way you'd check Snopes to verify whether questionable-sounding e-mails are hoaxes prior to passing them on.
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