The Molnar brothers, friends from Budapest now living in Berkeley, have just launched the Tricycle Wine Company.

Just won a political race but new to politics? Rush order Taegan Goddard’s book “YOU WON–NOW WHAT? — HOW AMERICANS CAN MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK FROM CITY HALL TO THE WHITE HOUSE.”

Here’s the first chapter and here’s where you can buy the book.

From the organizer of SpeakOutCalifornia comes this comment on DailyKos:

Of the $300 billion spent…I can’t help but think the best roughly a thousand dollars that anybody spent on this thing was on Speak Out California’s tiny little blogad buy.

Here’s their ad.

AdAge asks: Should employers allow their staff to read blogs in the workplace?

Next up: is breathing a waste of time? Should coffee machines be licensed? Should toilets be metered?

Thank you Tig.

Created by Karl Frankowski and referred by Josh Rubin of Coolhunting. Karl gets $1000 and Josh gets $300. Both get our thanks. And the blogosphere gets another case study of the fun things that emerge when a swarm of people brainstorm in public.

Thank you to aeveryone who contributed logo ideas. You can see all their submissions and comments here. You can see the finalists here. And for background, here’s the original manifesto.

(We’ll be getting the new logo live on this site once we can adust a couple of things in the current layout.)

coming as soon as we get a signed W9 and AI file.

Matt Welch stumbles on one reason why sponsorships beat pay-per-click models.

Hey everyone, make sure not to click on those GoogleAds about baseball crap over to your left! Wouldn’t want the advertisers to have all you yucky customers on their websites whilst sitting at a computer! Instead, click on the BlogAd about the new documentary film Little Man, which opens in L.A. tonight.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post (happily, no doubt) details the risk of advertising where real people are brainstorming.

Blogads.com makes it into the third sentence of the story. “Kaine’s campaign had purchased the space through a broker that put his advertising on numerous liberal-leaning blogs.” If the ads’ provenance is worth mentioning, why not toss in the name of the “broker,” aka Blogads.com? In the interest of full disclosure, should WPost have mentioned that ads like Kaine’s would have in the past appeared in the pages of Wpost.com, and that this “broker” is poaching hundreds of thousands in ad revenues a year from the august pages of Wpost.com?

If publishers want to flee “upmarket” (ie peddling content in which people can’t think aloud and/or write what they really think) rather than fight blogs on their own turf, great. (Wondering what the heck I’m talking about, read this book.)

There’s apparently the first $10K winner for Budget’s blog-based treasure hunt.

“Each week’s treasure hunt will begin on Monday morning and end the following Sunday at 11:59 pm EST.” There are four cities each week, with a $10K prize in each.

Apparently, folks are skipping work to head out and hunt for these. Luckily, it appears none are cached in our area. Here’s the cool blogad Budget is currently running.

How quickly will spam start to flow to this address?

Come and get it boys: nickblogads@gmail.com …