Work of art: Blog friend Shawn Lea has created KatrinaArtists.com, for Gulf Coast artists in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina to post information about their work, to let customers know where they are now and to sell their work online. Pass it on.

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Yahoo! RSS feeds: Out the ying-yang.

(via: Tara Calishain (ResearchBuzz) who also shows how to build a URL that runs a Yahoo search and gets the results as an RSS feed.)

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Rob May: “Popularity leads to more popularity.” (I’d call it the sheep-effect or we’re all still in jr. high.)

Paying for buzz marketing or, ‘The parable of the lightning bugs’: Quote from MediaPost story BzzAgent Bows Word-of-Mouth Channel: “Buzz Marketing Firm Bzzagent Monday announced the launch of a word-of-mouth marketing channel that gives advertisers and marketers the ability to purchase access to BzzAgent’s ‘hive’ of volunteer consumer evangelists.”

When I was a child and I’d see lightening bugs* on a summer evening, I’d think how neat it would be if I could collect a few of those bugs in a mason jar and they could power my own a little light bulb. It was always fun running around collecting the bugs, but the light never proved to be that bright and the bugs were dead by morning.

*also called fireflies

Rim shot: The WSJ (free) does a roundup of Dick Cheney jokes from last night’s comedy shows.

Olympics observations: The simulcam is the coolest invention since that yellow first down line. Also, I’d like to thank NBC for airing pairs figure skating on the same night CBS was airing 24. With a little help from my DVR, I was able to hack together a near-real-time viewing of 24 during the figure skating slots.

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