Headline of the day: “Bush probes Saddam’s pants”

(via: IWantMedia.com)

What Rafat said: Last Monday,
Rafat Ali (of PaidContent.org)
and I
had an early dinner together.  We thought it was our first
off-line meeting, but I’m now almost certain we chatted at the first
blogging
conference either of us (and, perhaps anyone) attended in June,
2003.

Following Monday, Rafat worked his way up all week because by yesterday, he was hanging out
with the folks
who run all the country’s big media companies. Here,
he reflects on the
experience (the Friday meeting, not dinner with me) and
includes
this great quote of  his reaction to the MSM titans:

(For a long time, I have been on record as predicting Rafat will
one day be regarded as the creator of the first successful
business-to-business media venture that got its start on a blogging platform. Meeting him convinces me of this even more.)

Newspapers with RSS feeds: Tom Biro (themediadrop.com) has updated his listing of newspapers offering RSS feeds. Tom, I salute you.

Biked to work: Like last year, I observed Bike to Work week on Thursday. Unlike last year, I didn’t blog it. Wish I had a place to shower at the office — I’d do it lots more.