Day: April 26, 2005

A welcome result from my Technorati search: finding Ken Norton’s new blog. And, through that, Suzanne Galante’s blog. Subscribed!

I missed the lunchtime concert today with The Court & Spark, but happy first birthday to Download.com Music. Maybe I’ll find something to put on the shuffle…

According to BlogPulse, part of Intelliseek, News.com is #9 in the list of most cited sources in the blogosphere. That’s nice to see. BlogPulse.com Detects Shift in Top Personalities, Blogs, News Sources Cited by Bloggers. On the list there’s one portal (Yahoo News, at the top), five newspapers (led by NYT), three television stations (led by CNN), and News.com. Many thanks to the readers and bloggers who find the site link-worthy. Until vote links prove the real situation, I’ll trust that most of these links are because the news satisfied readers’ needs. Feedback is always welcome

I didn’t catch the press release until this evening, hours after the fact. Thanks, Simon Waldman… follow Simon via Newsburst if you don’t go direct.

On a related note: perhaps it’s impolite of me to do this publicly, but I’ve asked privately more than once. It’s about time David Sifry corrected his March 17 blog post and the accompanying graphic. I have it from Technorati directly that News.com actually should have been on this list, at #11, between BoingBoing and Instapundit. Check the numbers for yourself. As I type this, it’s 21,938 links from 10,586 sources.

Last week, I bought the cheapest Shuffle, with the idea of (a) listening to some podcasts and (b) learning what all the fuss is about, both with the iPod and podcasts. Despite coming in a very large box for such a tiny device, the Shuffle is all that I expected. That’s a good thing. However, the headphones are not very comfortable. And I still don’t have a lot of places or times where personal music listening is really part of my life. Three random links, Shuffled.