The Los Angeles Times‘ Calendar section features local L.A. bloggers today. Among those featured:

not us
Patterico, our style-and-content hero
not us
Mayor Sam — although the Times’ fact checkers may want to look into that “written anonomously” line
not Mickey Kaus — who frequently opines about local issues, including the LAT
voice of reason LAObserved
not us

We’re going to work harder […]

It is a semi-slow news day so we’ll take a cue from MSM and cover our own industry–more specifically the goings on at 8763 Wonderland. We’ve had several stories overlap with Wonderland including favorites Holly Ashcraft and Chris Irwin Julian and we like to keep an eye on what they are doing.

Last month 8763 went […]

Our week away from the Independent Sources offices will end tomorrow and Independent Sources will resume its banal witty moronic punctuated postings.
If you have been missing your Independent Sources fix, we recommend looking at some of our older posts. Though simplistic and rough, many of the early writings are in fact better […]

Given the choice between shopping online on the weekend — and missing out on football games and all that — and shopping while at work, guess which most people choose?
Last year, the Monday after Thanksgiving was the peak day for online transactions, according to VeriSign Payment Services, a unit of eBay Inc.’s PayPal that processes […]

Through Patterico, we find Iowahawk’s hilarious “press release” about Pajamas Open Source Media:
Q: How will value be created?
A: Ask any business consultant: the key to getting that sweet-ass yacht is through volume. By coordinated mutual plagiarizing, blogs within the OSM network will save significant posting costs, which will accrue to the bottom line. Also, we […]

Open Source Media Website Home

No RSS feed? What’s up with that? I track 50 or so blogs via their RSS feeds but no such luck with OSM. Do I have to wait for some special open source RSS reader?
For those of you who somehow haven’t been barraged with all things OSM, Angry has the dish […]

Independent Sources just added Joe Sherlock’s View Through the Window to our blogroll last week and if you haven’t checked it out yet, here is an example of what you are missing:

Bad Idea #1346: Ford is turning to employees for ideas to help guide a major turnaround of the company’s North American operations. Salaried employees […]

This site estimates how much a blog is worth, using the Technorati’s link count multiplied by the value per link ratio from the AOL / Weblogs Inc. deal.
Here’s our current value. You can test your own. Or your enemies:

Sounds about right.
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H/t: Marginal Revolution

Mayor Sam, scourge of the scourged, is one year old.
You know that we bring some level of transparency to government, hold politicians accountable and do our best to get the information to the people. Hopefully, we also entertain and amuse here and there.
You do, guys.

Look what’s here:

As Ramblewords says:
Right now the biggest difference between the two engines, other than speed, is relevance. In Technorati, the author determines relevance by assigning tags to their posts. In Google’s blogsearch, Google determines relevance with their own algorithms.
By the way, is anything at Google not Beta?
technorati: google google blog search technorati

Independent Sources just noticed that the Washington Post has added technorati tags to individual stories.

This is very cool and is one more acknowledgement that mainstream media recognizes the contributions and impact of blogging.
If you like what your are reading, bookmark Independent Sources or subscribe to our RSS feed. If you are a blogger please […]

David Sifry, founder of the blog search engine Technorati, posted an interesting table of the number of links into major websites or blogs. It shows the Los Angeles Times to be the #18 most-linked to media site, behind — among newspapers — the NYT, WaPo, Guardian, USA Today, and SF Gate (SF Chronicle):

To be sure, […]

Despite living in a very big world, most of us don’t venture out past our favorite sites (such as Independent Sources) or the odd story we might find on Technorati. Americans in particular don’t often get outside the U.S., even on the Internet, and when they do it can be intimidating. To help you “travel” […]

Problogger: Blogspot Blogs to be Deleted from some Search Engines to combat Spam Blogs?
Mark Cuban, owner of Ice Rocket, writes that blogs hosted on free blogspot domains are getting close to being eliminated from Ice Rocket and other search engines because of the increasing problem of Spam Blogs (or Splogs as they’ve been called a […]

Last week we learned that despite post-election bloviating, Democrats failed to emmigrate to Canada after John Kerry’s defeat (Democrats Broke Promise, Didn’t Emigrate After The Election). The blogosphere had some fun with this, best summarized in these two headlines:
We Even Offered To Help You Pack (Bogus Gold)
MoveNot.org (Justin Lollie)
Others searched for explanations. Canadian The Files […]