Congratulations to Walter in Denver and Talkleft for being selected by the Rocky Mountain News as the top 2 Colorado weblogs.

There may not be any more blogging here today.
Power has been out in our neighborhood since 6:15 AM and we have no positive indication as to when it will be back.
Reading by candle light will be fine but I haven’t figured out how to use those particular photons to reach the internet.
For your reading pleasure check out the recently updated folks at the top of the blogrolls in modulator’s right and left sidebars.

Infoworld reports that M$ has launched a techy weblog service called The Spoke:

Joe Wilcox, a Washington, D.C.-based Jupiter Research senior analyst, doesn’t see TheSpoke as a threat to other blog services, but rather as a tool for Microsoft to win support from young software developers who might otherwise choose to work on projects that compete with Microsoft.
“While there is a blogging component, TheSpoke is not a blogging site. Creating this kind of community is a longstanding Microsoft approach, particularly when it comes to building relations with developers,” he said. “Considering that academia is fertile ground for Mac and other Unix and Linux development, Microsoft is wise to provide alternative resources like TheSpoke, where student developers can gather and build a community.”

According to Technorati a dozen plus folks have blogged about this service. FWIW, I looked at 5-6 of the Spoke blogs and none of them show up in Technorati so this is a pretty new effort and appears to not have linked into the larger community yet.
Welcome to these folks.

I spent little time at Blogshares as I didn’t want to get hooked into another time sink…why spend time at something if you aren’t going to try to do it well.
Nevertheless I’m sorry to read of their demise. A lot of folks seemed to have fun there.
Via Sugarfused.