Feels good when a friend starts blogging. You learn more about them, and are enriched by extra exposure to their humor and wisdom. So a shout-out to my neighbor Doug Tidwell, who gets to globe-trot for IBM preaching to college kids. Our daughters are in Indian Princesses together.

Meanwhile, in Amherst, Steve survives the voyage to Plymouth on a vessel full of 4th graders.

BTW, here’s a nicely biased article analyzing why Princeton or Harvard (or other schools) haven’t monopolized the White House recently.

Blog reader survey results. Lots of fun surprises. More on the way next week as we slice the data.

At 8:35, the 10,000th blog reader responded to our survey. The 10,000 reader came from Sean Bonner’s blog.

The 20 readers leading up to the 10,000th were sent by The Agitator, Hit&Run, Instapundit, E-Media Tidbits, Atrios, Washington Monthly, Joshua Claybourn, RogerLSimon, PoliticalWire, A Small Victory, Blackfive and Amy Langfield.

Some recent studies show that women surf more at night; men prowl by day. Perhaps that is why the male skew dropped overnight from 80.1 to 79.6%. The average testosterone of blog readers is still astonishing to me — the New York Times’ online readership skews only 56% male.

Anil Dash noted in Steve Outing’s comments yesterday that the survey “skewed heavily male because it was linked on some boyzone websites that aren’t very hospitable towards women. I bet that’ll change as the link disseminates. ” We’ll see what things look like when the dust settles. I’m still pretty surprised.

Some readers reported that survey pages 2 and 3 were taking minutes to load last night. I’m very sorry. I’ve contacted Surveymonkey’s support and hope this is something can be fixed, because I’d like to keep the survey running at least through the end of today.

To wrap up, thank you to the 10,000 blog readers who have been generous with your time and answers!

A couple of hours ago, responses started rolling in for our long overdueblog reader survey. Thank you to , [url=]Instapundit, , [url=]PoliticalAnimal, Agonist, Asmallvictory, andRogerLSimon for sending readers to the survey.

A mention of blogads in a succinct Newsweek article called Ranting for profit.

D’Amato spins a superb tale about a Budapest night-spot, the Feszek Klub. Unmentioned: behind a locked door on the third floor is a 100 foot diameter circular room. Painted reflective gold in the 60’s, it’s got some Grecian motifs and a shallow dome spanning the whole space — right out of the Martian Chronicles. Peter Molnar and I staged a blast there in 1992, a party was unmatched in fervent novelty until Matt and Emmanuelle (and Jim Lowney?) rented the outdoor pool — with surf! — at the Gellert Hotel in 1997. Those were the days, my friend.

The risk of carving a startup out of a big company, says one VC in a story in this morning’s NYT , “is that you’re taking on people who haven’t been out there hustling, groveling for a living. They’re not necessarily entrepreneurs.”

Sitting here at 5.30AM waiting for one image server to be revived, I have to smile.

8AM update: Image server Sparrow (our other two are named Cuckoo and Rooster) is flying again.

A reader criticizes Josh Marshall for not decrying Nicholas Berg’s murder. Marshall responds:

You’ve just misjudged how I run the site and why I do so. I don’t write about everything I think. I don’t write just to say that X is good or Y is bad. I write when I feel I have something I can add to a discussion, and only then. I could write a post saying that I thought Berg’s execution was horrifying and awful and that I couldn’t get to sleep last night because the ugliness of the images wouldn’t leave my mind. But what would that tell you? That al Qaida is awful and that I think they’re awful too? Perhaps I simply have nothing to add. The online world has lots of vociferous me-too-ism, going on record saying in fist-clenched tones things I think we all know we all feel. That’s fine; I just don’t like doing that. Once, when I wrote nothing about a rapid series of court decisions touching on gay rights issues, one reader wrote in and attacked me mercilessly for being homophobic since clearly, he reasoned, I had judged these to be of no importance. He was wrong; and you’ve made the same misjudgment. This isn’t a publication of record. And you’re not in a position to judge what I think based on my silence.

Headlines on CNNfn.com this morning:

Stocks sink softly

Jobless claims rise

You know that stomach-bending time-is-really-slow-and-how-will-this-end feeling you get when the car spins out of control on black ice?

That’s the feeling Greenspan has right now.

He hasn’t tightened rates, and 10 year note rates are up 100 basis points in six weeks. That’s huge, with more probably to come. The Fed can’t not tighten, with inflation on every front. But Greenspan, who spent the 70s and 80s examining the huge impact that housing markets have on the national economy, also knows that tightening will crush home sales and dunk the economy faster than a lead fishing sinker.

You’ve heard that the weird angles get covered, making corporate journalists groan or harrumph.

Throughout it all, the best/cheapest/maddest place to advertise will be here. Remember, uncorporate doesn’t mean noncommercial — just means you don’t have to pay for 11 layers of corporate overhead to push ads to your target audience.