Unlike Joe Jaffe’s (eejit) demands of Adam Curry I am not looking for link love (especially as my own blogroll is up the creek without a paddle as I try to sort out my template etc.)

• MacKozer beings us Ireland from a Polish Perspective. It’s a good read and brings a much needed voice to the Irish blogosphere.

• Rafael Bahr writes about women and confessional blogging in the Observer. God forbid women write anything other than confessional blogs – we know our place, the Observer tells us so. However Fashion bloggers are getting access to New York Fashion week according to the Wall Street Journal -for which blogger is better than the other (also known as who gets nearest the walkway) see here

• China’s first lawsuit over Internet blog libel has been dismissed.

• From an Obsession with Food I read that a company in the US is injecting fruit with Co2 to make it fizzy – speechless.

• As someone who did not get the Second Life thing at all I smirked when I read about this threat to the Linden dollars.

• If you know someone who might be interested in sponsoring Ireland’s first Bloggers Conference on Blogging the Election ask them to have a look at this. Since it was announced on Friday it has created great interest in the blogging and political communities and it would be great to keep it as accessible as possible as well having a successful and stimulating event.