Premiership season trading herein...

Jonathan Freedland at Teh Meediah Grauniad has a plan to save the blogosphere from becoming stale and claustrophobic... [free reg probably required]

Bollywood thinks so.

...allow me this.

Even women's volleyball is not immune from their clutches.

So a new Rush album is coming out soon.

[F]or about $3 billion—the same amount being allocated to retrofit old sets with digital tuners—every household in the country not currently hooked up with cable or satellite could be added. That means the difference between that cost and the value of the spectrum now devoted to the vital task of bringing us When Animals Attack for other applications is a pure deadweight loss. Freeing up 200 MHz of spectrum would be worth about $77 billion in gains to consumers. But locking that spectrum into inefficient TV broadcast use is nevertheless somehow mandated by "the public interest."

I have been only sporadically online through dialup at a location I somewhat infrequently visit. So if this is hardly an original post, bear with me. I also may not be immediately available to reply to comments. This also hardly amounts to more than random ramblings and ravings that came to me while dropping a deuce; the aforementioned conditions from cleaning this up to any degree.

Postrel on blogging and the media (yes it's a tired old topic...)