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This morning, the Wall Street Journal features an article about professional blogging. Mark Penn, the article's author, even cites some of our own numbers, though the most astonishing number he arrives at is that America is now home to over 452,000 professional bloggers who use blogging as their primary source of income. If these numbers are indeed true, then that would mean that there are now almost as many bloggers in the U.S. as lawyers (550,000). We do, however, have our doubts.

Vogue model Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger so she could sue her for defamation against claims that she was the 'skankiest in NYV.' Manhattan Supreme Court rules that Google who hosted the blogger, turn them over. Is this the demise of anonymous blogging?

The publisher of America's most-famous blog lashes out at the poll and political horse race-driven mainstream media, saying it'll be up to the bloggers to make coverage of the next presidential election interesting. Those same bloggers, she argues, could also spell trouble for Hillary Clinton.

I'm sure there are many more common mistakes. Which ones do you see people make

As Germany heads into national elections, established political parties are trying to appeal to Web-savvy voters using Facebook and Twitter. But their Internet policies are alienating bloggers and activists, who are using the medium to protest against the political mainstream.

The idea is that users will be able to anonymously upload material, and Wikileaks will verify it. A tool for journalists and bloggers to release information without their identity being compromised.

The millions of blogs on WordPress.com will now have a clean mobile theme turned on by default, removing most of the formatting and making the sites easy to load on a phone. WordPress bloggers may want to opt-out of the new setting; not everyone likes how the first mobile themes selected by WordPress looks.

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