David Weinberger has written a paradoy of the The Blogger's Manifesto. Its called The Real Blogger's Manifesto, and it begins like this: "Life is uncensored but my clients and my Mom may be reading my blog."

A crusade against age restrictions: "Now, at the age of 7, I am not going to be starting second grade this fall. Instead, I have graduated from high school with honors through Cambridge Academy, a distance-learning institution based in Florida. I am a full-time student at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, a syndicated columnist, the author of two books, and a presenter at conferences around the United States."

CmdrTaco proposes on Slashdot. She accepts. (So do millions of Anonymous Cowards.)

David Weinberger on NPR (real audio): "[He] says the phenomenon of "Weblogs" -- a sort of daily journal that hundreds of thousands of people now keep on the Internet -- is one example of how the Web may transform journalism."

Heart courtesy of the Acme HeartMaker.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Jon Asato said, "It's the strangest thing. Dane Carlson appears in my referers links again, yet there is no link to me from his weblog." Jon, I sometimes randomly surf to Radio weblogs, by typing in radio.weblogs.com/010xxx directly into the browser window. I guess you're getting that in your refers. Now, there's a link. :)

The FBI has issued an alert to 350 law enforcement agencies in the southwest and Salt Lake City for potential Valentine teddy bear bombs after a suspicious transaction at a Wal-Mart last month. "The FBI said a clean-shaven male, possibly of Middle Eastern descent, purchased nine Valentine teddy bears, 20 inches tall, and 14 canisters of propane, 9 inches tall, small enough to fit inside the teddy bears. The man also bought 12 packets of BBs."

Bryan Mason is weblogging the Olympics from behind the scenes. (from Steve)

The Economist on Mormonism: "Within four decades, one in 20 Americans may be a Mormon and there may be 50m or more worldwide. How will outsiders react to the next world religion?"