There's a few items around today about blogging. First, Egypt has a couple in jail, and we all know what that means. Bloggers of the left and right may be getting a bit too cosy with politicos.

Slate celebrated its 10th anniversary with a forum on new media. Panelist Malcolm Gladwell reckons bloggers are like parasites and without the New York Times there'd be no blogosphere (more full report here). Steady on, Malcolm.

William Powers, via Romanesko, reckons bloggers are among the few media people having any fun:

We talk about the difference between bloggers and mainstreamers as if it were just a matter of attitude: Bloggers have pluck. But the more important difference may be that while mainstreamers cry in their beer -- or their herbal tea -- about the sorry state of journalism, those troublemaking bloggers are, in the finest tradition of hackdom, simply having a blast.

Finally The Huffington Post has had to disable one of its contributor's passwords for acting, well, too much like a blogger. Like rain, that's ironic.