This is page 60 of the blogging news archives.

WSJ Article Defends Blogs From Recent Blog Doom Articles (February 26, 2006): An article in the WSJ Online by Jason Fry defends blogs from the recent blogging doom articles in Slate, The Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times and many others.

Edgeio to Aggregate Blog Classifieds (February 26, 2006): Edgeio is a new startup from Michael Arrington who runs the TechCrunch blog.

Pastors at Evangelical Churches Jump on Blogs and Podcasts (February 25, 2006): The Boston Herald reports that pastors at many evangelical churches are using podcasts and blogs to reach out to the younger demographic.

Opus Dei Starts Blog to Improve Image (February 25, 2006): The Roman Catholic Group Opus Dei has started a blog to challenge the evil image of them portrayed in Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code.

The Meaning of the Blogosphere is 42 (February 25, 2006): Duncan Riley ends his commentary at the Blog Herald with the answer to the meaning of the blogosphere.

MC Hammer on the Power of Blogging (February 24, 2006): MC Hammer has started a blog here.

OhmyNews to Expand Internationally (February 23, 2006): OhmyNews, a very popular Korean citizen journalism website, has received an $11 million investment from Softbank.

Google's New Webpage Maker Temporarily Suspended (February 23, 2006): CRN reports that Google Page Creator, Google's new webpage making service, has been temporarily suspended.

Kottke Quits Contributor Sponsored Blogging After One Year (February 23, 2006): Blogger Jason Kottke is not going to ask for contributions from his readers this year.

Yarr! Every Blog Post is a Blog at Office Pirates (February 22, 2006): Blogebrity points out that Office Pirates, a new humor website from Time Warner that launched quietly, doesn't know the difference between a blog and a blog post.

Most Kids Don't Visit MySpace for the Blogs (February 22, 2006): Danah Boyd has written an interesting article about why kids are using the MySpace service.

Financial Times Launches Blog to Go Along With Blog Bashing Article (February 21, 2006): The Financial Times has launched an article highly critical of blogs and a new blog to go with it. It only makes sense if link bait is involved.

China Has Incredibly Active White-Collar Bloggers (February 21, 2006): China Daily has an article that says 52% of white-collar workers in China have a blog.

How About Total Thermomemetracker War? (February 21, 2006): Want to play a game? Robert Scoble started testing the blog search tools with his brrreeeport game last week and now Steve Rubel has a new nonsense word test called breememe to test the memetrackers.

How Quickly Does the A-list Change? (February 20, 2006): There are lots of highlights from New York Magazine's Blog to Riches article which discusses blogs and the A-list -- with a focus on Technorati 100.

Do Sites Like MySpace Threaten Matchmaking Websites? (February 20, 2006): eMarketer has an article called "Online Dating Gets Tough" (link no longer available) which covers the shrinking revenue growth at online matchmaking websites like Match.

New York Times Launches Blog by Frank Bruni (February 20, 2006): The New York Times has launched a blog called the Diner's Journal for Frank Bruni, their restaurant critic.

Columnist Compares Blogs to Minesweeper (February 18, 2006): A blog blasting opinion article by Joe Lavin of the Boston Herald compares the time lost reading blogs to the time lost playing Minesweeper.

A Blog Without Comments is Still a Blog (February 18, 2006): Russell Beattie recently removed comments from his blog.

PubSub Adds Comics Community List (February 17, 2006): PubSub.