Bay Area Blog Pulse

A case of the vapors has put the column's proprietor on injured reserve (likely story, we know). In a statement issued by his spokesperson, he hopes to "[M]ake as many appearances at third base as his rickety constitution allows, and be in prime fettle by the playoffs." By all accounts, the team should continue as a league juggernaut.

CityMama is pretty fun, and does a nice Friday link roundup (hint, hint). SF Mike is another blogger adept at making connections through contradiction. And don't think we aren't dealing with the same level of editorial theory that, say, Knight-Ridder is. They just have a lot more resources to implement them. All we've got is free blogging tools to do exactly what television and newspapers can't -- publish instantly and raise the tone of discussion (to a degree).

Just look what television has done to education and tell us that MySpace or LiveJournal is somehow worse. Magazines and newspapers aren't much less culpable, with another upper-middle class neighborhood survey from a publication that should know better. Please, shoot us when we're whoring for you readership by sending you junk mail. Instead, try an approach that encourages positive word-of-mouth by making it easy for peope to find your content, online, offline or otherwise.

Being a Seattle homeboy who's a barista from way back, we congratulate Brian Leport and wish him the best after leaving Starbucks. Can't be as risky as a stake in the Bay101 poker tournament. And while Parallaxis waxes poetic about Muni, SFist looks forward to new transit moves made to aide the party people.

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