HOWIE GOES TO BLOGISTAN: Howie Kurtz finally pens his blogging column, and it's generally positive. The usual suspects (Instapundit, Virginia Postrel, Mickey Kaus, Andrew Sullivan, Joshua Micah Marshall) are featured, but there's also Asparagirl, Amy Welborn (whose site sends me a ton of traffic), Susanna Cornett of Cut On the Bias, and several others. Give it a look. Here's the book-jacket blurb:

The arena has produced fresh, clever, idiosyncratic, real-time musings by all kinds of people whose voices would otherwise be heard only at the local Starbucks.