Once upon a time I had some online friends and aquaintances, who were funny, smart, lively people. And then 9/11 "happened," and some of these people changed. (Maybe some of you only know Jeff Jarvis as a media consultant and Google fan!) One of them was Michele Catalano. Today she describes what happened: "Something snapped. I was spending almost all my free time blogging. Blogging about war and terrorism and fear and death and sadness. A hatred welled up inside me. I knew what it was. I knew where the hate and blackness came from and what it was about. But in the post 9/11 world [...]

It's amusing watching people flip out about the New York Times article on the weblog Little Green Footballs and its proprietor, Charles Johnson. (For those who have lives, LGF was pretty insanely right-wing, or at least, crazy, and now is sort of moderate, I guess.) "Chuckie is getting mainstream coverage when his influence and his traffic are guttersnipe low," writes birth-certificate-questioning Pamela Geller at her blog, Atlas Shrugs. Oh really.