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Friday, June 15, 2007
8:21:00 PM EDT
Hearing Soul Coughing, Super Bon Bon (Live)

Familiar Faces: Fatblogging and the Top 10 Sci-Fi Authors of the '00s

Today's LA Times has an article about fatblogging, which is a term that covers blogging about your weight loss efforts.

Lots of folks have used blogs to chronicle their weight loss and fitness goals -- blogging is perfect for this, since you have a chronological record of what you've been doing (or not doing), and it's easy for you (and others) to keep tabs.

The term "fatblogging" was coined (or at least popularized) by Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc, now AOL-alumni and founder of search service Mahalo. The article's writer talks about him, but apparently didn't interview him -- which makes sense, give that Jason's stated policy is that he only does interviews via e-mail.) [link via Mediabistro.]

Also, guess who was named one of the "Top 10 science fiction novelists of the 00s -- so far"? Our very own blogger John. Congratulations to John.

But wait, any random idiot with a blog can make a top 10 list. So whose blog is it? Let's see... holy crap, it's the blog of Marc Andreessen, co-inventor of Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, and co-founder of Netscape (by extension and acquisition, another AOL alum). Hey, works for me.

[link via Valleywag -- warning: NSFW (Not Safe For Work) photo right on the main page, just above the sci-fi link... man, what were they thinking? Oh, that's right: "We don't give a damn about you."]

Have a good weekend, all.

Thanks -- Joe



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