welcome to a new weblog, Mobtown Blues, by longtime pal Kevin M. A great upgrade from his not-often-updated old journal site. Hopefully the more atomic weblog format will be more conducive to regular posting for our Baltimore correspondent.

Page 23, sentence 5: an autopsy. “The key inflection point for the blog community seems to be the April 11th posting on caterina.net; the highly connected nature of an ‘A-list’ blogger pushing the population of exposed individual over the density threshold from isolated cases to epidemic.”

at Boing Boing: Technorati support in place of comments AND trackback. A very interesting use for the Technorati technology. It very well might be a viable replacement for enabling comments here, which (as most will note) has been quite inconsistent for several months. What do you (dear readers) think?

The “Kostroversy” Context.

has made an important post: Boing Boing’s explosive growth – and what to do about it. He’s opened a discussion thread so you can contribute. So far they have had a lot of good suggestions and only a few trolls.