Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Sysrick.com] Radio and Blog : sysrick.com: (most blogs have a 'referrer log' tool that lists your visitors; services like SiteMeter also provide this information). If I don't recognize a reader by their URL, I'll go to their site to see who they are and what brought them to my site (and often say 'thanks for visiting' while I'm there). And I track total popularity three ways (see chart above): Average hits/day per the Salon Rankings list, Number of Inbound Blogs per Technorati Cosmos (I also visit any new additions to my Inbound Blogs list), and Number of people subscribed to my RSS feed per Dave Winer's Who Subscribes List.

[Office.weblogsinc.com] A conversation with Mike Jetter of Mindjet - The Office Weblog ...: While we always listen to customers, we don’t always do what they ask. For example, we had a number of requests early on to use Word as the MindManager notes editor but we were convinced this was not the way to go. So we wrote our own editor that did precisely what it needed to and nothing more.

[Charliewear.next-wave.org] next-wave > church & culture: Charlie Wear's Notes: grid blog :: pentecost 2005 - The Beautiful Game is the title of Stephen's post as pentecost arrives in New Zealand. He writes: "You may not be able to speak the language of a far off place, but produce a ball (particularly a soccer ball) and words become irrelevant.

 [Homepage.mac.com] CulturePulp: Writings and Comics by ME Russell: It's a crucial distinction --and one that explains the greater depth of human feeling in your averageMiyazaki cartoon. We're now a quarter-century into his stunning career, whichincludes such major and minor masterpieces as "Princess Mononoke," "The Castleof Cagliostro," "Spirited Away," "Castle in the Sky," "My Neighbor Totoro,""Kiki's Delivery Service," "Porco Rosso" and "Nausicaä." By now, Miyazaki fans have ageneral idea what to expect walking into the theater: plucky heroines; fantasticcreatures largely designed by Miyazaki himself; fully realized worlds you'reshown instead of told about; tensions between man and nature; well-placedmoments of quiet; and, often as not, some very spiffy-looking flyingmachines.

 [Respectfulofotters.blogspot.com] Respectful of Otters: If you're not going to vote against Bush because he panders to his wealthy supporters at the expense of the middle class and poor; because of his utterly ineffectual response to the threat of international terrorism, both before and after 9/11; because he led us into an unnecessary, bloody war and then butchered its execution; because he surrounds himself with arrogant, corrupt and incompetent advisors; because when his theories come into conflict with facts, he throws out the facts; because his tax cuts place a crushing burden of debt on future generations without even providing temporary relief to the majority of Americans; because he assists those who would make the United States a theocracy; because he has squandered our international alliances; because he tells bold-faced lies; because no civil liberty appears to be safe from him save the right to own firearms; because he has said that his ideal Supreme Court Justices are Scalia and Thomas, and there are likely to be vacancies on the Court next term - if any or all of these reasons don't lead you to oppose Bush, are you really going to be swayed by concerns about his childhood survivor's guilt? If you're unmoved by the thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilians killed, the hundreds of dead American soldiers, will it really make a difference to hear that as a boy, Bush shot frogs with a B.B.

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