- The gentlemen at Power Line have announced the launch of a new companion site, Power Line News–sure to become the top home page for hard-core news junkies. I’m honored to be included. Bookmark it!

- Mike Fumento has a handsome new blog. Check it out.

- Belated welcomes to the blogosphere: Michael Barone and Beyond Borders.

- Been meaning to link to this interesting interview with CNN’s blog reporters, Abbi Tatton and Jacki Schechner, by Liz Cox Barrett at CJR Daily. Good read.

- Jason Apuzzo on terrorism chic in Hollywood.

- Jason Calacanis blows the whistle on the Nick Denton-funded comScore study on blogs released earlier this week. That’s the “study” that views Free Republic and The Drudge Report as blogs and said Outside the Beltway has more readers than Instapundit. Jarvis has more.

- David Sifry of Technorati acknowledges the huge growth in computer-generated spam blogs and fake blogs but does not say whether these blogs comprise a large percentage of the 14 million blogs tracked by Technorati.

- A scheme to attack a busy New York subway station with bombs hidden in backpacks. (Via JihadWatch.)

- Patterico says the LA Times loves factcheck.org–but only when it promotes the liberal position.