Blogs getting acquired

I’m late to this but Military.com has bought the blog DefenseTech.org. What this means is that we are on the start of the real curve. Forget the Guardian getting DailyKos to blog – smaller and specialist media companies are starting to acquire blogs and bloggers too. (Thanks to OnlineBiz)

Republican Christians are not Christians

I’m a Christian, and I ought to know one when I see one. And the religious Right in the US, which basically now rules the country, are not Christians, they are the new Taliban: Web sites at the Centers of Disease Control and National Institute of Health were cleared of scientific studies and materials relating to abortion and condom use. Good science was disappearing from government publications and Web sites

Blog publishing bubble?

A Blog publishing goldrush has broken out in the UK, about a year after it hit the US in the form of Gawker and Weblogs Inc and others. Since it is so easy to create a blog, one can’t help wondering if hundreds of blogs will start clamouring for a limited number of obvious niches (yet more gadget blogs anyone?) thus creating a mirror image in the blogging world of