The Rhetorica weblog wants to document the ways in which weblogs kept the Trent Lott story alive. It is soliciting all postingsof material on Lott since his reprehensible statements. Paul Krugman credits Josh Marshall with keeping it on the radar screen, forcing national media to run with it.
I have measured out my life with Google 
Like everyone, I’ll point to the year-end Google Zeitgeist. Steven Levy’s Newsweek paean to Google is a wonderful companion piece.
“The city has become a print-substrate, an almost anonymous structure which you read by way of notices, badges, signs, logos and banners.” If you like both cities and design, Peter Campbell’s musings on signs in the city is a good read.