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A year-end NKOTB parade

It’s a broken record in blogsylvania, but I’ll say it anyway–December got busy and I got sidetracked and didn’t post everything I meant to. Specifically, the NKOTB’s got severly neglected in the holiday shuffle.

Making up for lost time, here’s a slew of NKOTB remainders to help wrap up the year like a Macho combo burrito:

Metroblogging Mumbai & Metroblogging Singapore

Yeah, yeah–these guys are seriously everywhere now. And sidenote–did you know that Mumbai used to be Bombay? I did too–but it’s still fun to point out. Regarding Metroblogging’s rapid growth, I once asked Sean Bonner how he does it–somehow I envisioned him travelling the world, with a suitcase full of blogs and a smile, selling them to any metropolitan area that would buy. But he said the writers come to him virtually every time. So to the people of Tijuana–please organize and contact Sean. We’re aching for some Metroblogging Tijuana.

Emerging Earth

You know, we don’t cover many b5media blogs here in the NKOTB. Not sure why. If Emerging Earth is any indicator, I imagine many of them are quite charming, and not too bad to look at either. EE is written by Aaron Brazell, and it’s all about the Big Three (Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google) and what’s next from Redmond, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. Somewhere, Jeeves is sitting in a corner crying and eating a full pint of Ben & Jerry’s.

Unholy Wars

Like b5media, NKOTB has been unkind to Instablogs. Again–no offense meant, we’re just a bit overwhelmed by how many new sites/networks are launching and vying for our attention. Don’t get me wrong, it’s flattering. It just makes it difficult to be truly thorough. But Unholy Wars is definitely worth a look–just check out this description from the site:

The globe sits on a terror volcano: day in and day out, it’s tales of terror and violence that keep choking our ears. In this all-round chaotic scenario, this blog is our effort to analyse and report the possible reasons that have brought things to such a pass, apart from suggesting some practicable solutions to the issues threatening the very existence of the humankind.

How can you turn that down?

Sexerati

This one’s the least new at this point, but it was prettiest too–and you know how far that will get you around here. Sexerati is the possibly-defunct Fine Fools Network’s answer to Gawker’s Fleshbot. The young site has already built quite the following–which makes its current up-in-the-air status all the more painful (and not in the good way). Pr0n fans everywhere are waiting with baited breath to see what will happen next for the 3rd Sexiest Geek on the Planet, Melissa Gira and Sexerati.

blog.erati.com

BlogMedia.biz, the folks behind the Blog Network Watch, are apparently behind this stealthy pre-alpha blog. Details are intentionally sketchy, but the ones that we know are interesting–this is where at least a couple of the Fine Fools defectors will be landing, including the one that used to write for us. As for when/where–we have no clue, and quite frankly are suffering from too much BNOS (Blog Network Overload Syndrome) to research any further.

JeremyHermanns.org

Horribly shameless plug ahead, but first disclosure–Jeremy’s our publisher, and I actually put the site together for him (including the lovely fast food burger montage on the header). We wouldn’t have said anything, but the site’s been getting bombarded with attention, after Jeremy’s account of a cabin depressurization onboard Alaska Airlines flight 536 was linked to by everyone (us included), vaulting him to the forefront of a slow news week on the blogosphere. Oh and since you asked–when I was making the 10 different burger-header graphics, I had no idea 50,000 people would see it the next week. If I did, I would have charged Carls’ Jr. for the product placement.

This entry was posted by Kyle Bunch on Friday, December 30th, 2005 at 6:25 pm and is filed under Fine Fools, Gawker Media, Google, Jeff Jarvis, Jeremy Wright, Metroblogging, Paul Scrivens, Robert Scoble, Sean Bonner, Steve Rubel, Yahoo, b5media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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