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I still tend to lean toward the opinion that blogging about blogging is too closely related to cleaning lint out of your navel, but we do need to get that lint out on occasion, Study sheds new light on habits, roles of blog readers

* Regular blog reading often becomes more habitual and less content oriented. Similar to e-mail checking, blog reading can become ingrained into users’ online routine. Sometimes, even the usefulness of the blog content itself can be less vital than the activity of reading or skimming the blog to fulfill a person’s particular routine.

* The timing of a blog post is not nearly as relevant to readers as its position among the other entries. Readers are more likely to read the most recent posts at the top of the screen, and are generally less concerned with the exact age of a post. A vast majority of participants said they were not bothered when they were not able to read each and every blog post, challenging a common theory that users tend to feel overwhelmed by the need to remain constantly up to date.

* Blog readers feel a responsibility to make insightful contributions. While past research noted readers expect bloggers to deliver frequent, high-quality posts, the UCI study found readers also place pressure on themselves to produce coherent, worthwhile comments in response to good blog posts.

One of the better things about this blog is no pressure for visitors to come up with thoughtful comments or on me to reply or to give pests the boot. Blog reading is definitely part of my routine. Since the better bloggers frequently draw on past news as it relates to current news you can see breaking events in a context that you can”t reading just primary news sources.

civilization one point o. this is a jab at our urban areas, but i like cities. we could just do with better programming so they work better and crash less.

Breakthrough’ at Stonehenge dig

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones - smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site’s original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

Strange beliefs come and go the best we can hope for is they leave cool relics.

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Someone is going to get taken out to the wood shed. Bush ambassador to Iraq admitted that contrary to what the Decider Guy says Iraq is not the “front” in the nebulous war on terror, Joe Biden Just Obliterated Every Administration Argument About Iraq

Crocker, in an impossible political position — give the correct answer and humiliate the Bush administration; give the administration’s answer and look like a fool — dodged as much as he could. Then Biden forced him down. Crocker: “I would therefore pick Al Qaeda on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.”