Scott Johnson: ... This recession has been what I've called to friends for some time "The Quiet Recession". If you weren't directly affected then you didn't realize how bad it was. This article spells it out clearly and succinctly.

Now, if I was really, really cynical, I'd comment that America's current Iraq fervor is because a) Bush knows exactly how bad it is and b) he knows that he can't fix it and c) war is a big distraction.

But I'm not cynical.  No I'm not.  Really I'm not. [in The FuzzyBlog!]

Paolo Valdemarin: It's official: Radio UserLand is available in French, with hosting provided under the leweblog.com domain. The big translation work has been made by JY, and as with the Italian version, the translation is distributed as an updatable tool, meaning that you will be able to use new Radio features in your own language very shortly after UserLand releases them.