Blogophilia: When There is No News to Blog About, Blog about Blogs

• Attack of the 50-foot blogswarm. [Philly.com]
• Joel Achenbach, natural born blogger: “As an artist, my normal impulse is to write things that people don’t care about and, ideally, can’t even understand.” Also, the blog is a harsh mistress: “I am constantly having to post something new just to make the blog interested in me again.” [WP]
• HuffPo is like cable television for those too lazy to appear on cable television: “a cyber Town Car service for liberals who can’t be bothered to blog on their own, and only blog for Arianna because she’s so damn charming and persistent.” [AdAge]
• Blogs good for reaching obsessive shut-ins. [NYT]