Bay Area Blog Pulse

Let's start by kicking out the jams. DJ Icewater mixes the sounds of Yay Area soul from past to present for a a Shout Magazine Shoutcast. What's old to Swerbo but new to us are hi-fi recordings of The Slip and Surprise Me Mr. Davis show at the Independent in November. Nicole Lee suggests some music podcasts, including a podcast by geek-rock legends They Might Be Giants. And topping the Yahoo search charts for 2005 are a mess of musicians, including our own Green Day at number five.

The man on the SOMA tech beat Niall Kennedy camped out at SixApart to cover the TypePad incident, and scores an insightful audio interview with Anil Dash. Wikipedia has also been through a bout of nastiness lately, with someone spoofing the assasination of founder Jimmy Wales. Susan Mernit gloats a little over the news of Google's new ownership interest in AOL. Part of the deal is that Google will now ad paid juice to certain search results -- but Steve Portigal says that the listings, especially for hotels, are already juiced to irrelevance thanks to SEOs. And BoingBoing goes old skool, publishing the PDF of their first zine.

Muni, tired of it's treatment in the blogosphere, bites back. Muni's tone is rather coarse, rude and vulgar, which comes as no surprise to regular riders. While Generik might not get his letter published in the Chronicle, he can be assured that we'll link to it. And Berkeley students take a break from finals to strip nekkid and run around. That can't possibly shock anyone on campus, can it?

Photo of perplexingly inaccurate San Francisco backdrop (we count six parking spaces, and what cable car line can you see the Golden Gate Bridge behind?) at the Disney MGM studios in Orlando by Eric Rice.