The End of the 2006 Blog Slush Pile Purge

Hi folks; this is the third and final installment of my 2006 blog slush pile purge, where I quickly run through a whole bunch of links that might have made it as full blog entries last year, but didn't. (See part 1 and part 2):

August:

* Esquire's problem with the movie 'Snakes on a Plane' (via Metafilter)

* The New York Times had articles about two groups of people blogging -- politicians and the French, but those articles are now inaccessible.

* More on MySpace: The Wall St. Journal on moguls of new media (via Slashdot); Becoming a MySpace Hottie; "Fake" Friends and Ads in Social Networks; Stupid, Funny & Possibly Offensive: MySpace: The Movie

* "Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?)"

* I never did blog about the AOL Search Data Debacle (via Obscurestore.com) -- this is because I have enough headaches of my own.

* Trying to find genuine celebrities on MySpace

* Local Interest: Why is the Iwo Jima Memorial in Virginia?, and a depressing overheard conversation about the Gettysburg Address

* The Top 100 viewed wikipedia articles (link is for August 2006 data -- you can change the settings at the bottom of the page -- there are links to content with adult themes, though no actual porn, and it's pretty obvious) -- via digg

* Social freeloaders, Sturgeon's Law; Columnist John Dvorak takes a contrarian view on digg and utopian views on the wisdom of crowds

The Rest of 2006 (I moved off Journals in August -- I did keep tabs of some stuff for possible use in my AIM Pages blog):

* One of many virtual bubble-wrap popping sites

* The Most Obnoxious Font Color Combination I Can Think Of

* Bloggers on Vacation?

* A Japanese Falling Sand Game (uses Java, be careful, it could crash your browser -- also, it's in Japanese, but you can play around and get the drift of it) -- here's an updated version with English instructions

That's about it. Like I said, I carried over a bunch of topics that I do want to get to eventually, most of the sort that never really "expire", or ones that benefit from periodic revisiting.

That said, my pile of stuff that I haven't gotten around to blogging in 2007 is already piling up...

Is there anything you wanted to write about last year, but didn't? Let us know. Also, if you blog about how you go about writing a blog entry -- your creative process -- share with the rest of us by leaving a comment with a link below.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: blog slush pile, 2006, how I blog