As many of you are aware sites hosted at Hosting Matters have been victimized by a massive denial of service attack targeted at one specific site: Internet Haganah.
Even though HM has been deligently working with their network providers to resolve this there have been several outages including one this morning which begain shortly after 9:00 AM and has extended to 3:08 PM this afternoon.
Note: this is not something I blame HM for in any way. I work at an institution that has had specific users targeted by denial of service attacks and they can be brutal and massive.
On the other hand, I am somewhat surprised that HM’s upstream networks have failed to successfully block this traffic before it hit’s HM’s circuits. In cases where a single IP is targeted (which we are told is the case here) dropping traffic to this IP by the upstream provider(s) should always work so something is broken here.

Thought you all would like to know this:

According to the survey, the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life. It is written very informally with slang spellings, yet not as informal as instant messaging conversations (which are riddled with typos and abbreviations).

Actually, there is quite a bit of interesting stuff in this report by Perseus Development Corp which was presented at the recent Bloggercon 2003.
For example, 66% or 2.72 million blogs had been temporarly or permanently abandoned. But, the survey just looked at hosting sites like Blogspot, Xanga, Livejournal, TypePad, etc., and does not appear to have discovered all the folks that have abanded Blogspot to open shop elsewhere.
Via beSpacific.

Kevin at Wizbang offers a special recall edition in week 14 of the Bonfire of the Vanities:

This week is a special Recall Election edition of the Bonfire. In addition to providing the morbidly curious posts for you to slow down and gawk over, this week we will be picking the one post that stands as a testament to the banal and vote for it’s recall.

And I appreciate Kevin’s link to this post.

Subtitled “The charity drive that gives you a little something in return…” the 2003 Blogger Boobie Thon for Charity is underway.
Warning – the cause is good, go donate, but some pages may not be work appropriate.
Via Jason.