Blog of the week: Some of the most popular personal blogs are an unpredictable mix of politics, messy personal lives, pop-culture commentary and insider exchanges with readers and e-mailers. A good example is theanchoressonline.com, crammed with window-on-the-world snippets with a higher-than-normal dose of religion thrown in. The writer is a finalist for one of this year’s Weblog Awards; to see her work or that of other finalists, go to weblogawards.org.
Watch this: You don’t have to endlessly surf YouTube and sample all the detritus. You can use the search box to get exactly what you want. Say you need a live performance by Neil Young. The first two hits recently were fantastic renditions of “Needle and the Damage Done,” filmed at a benefit concert, and a historic solo of “Old Man” soon after it was written. Try your own singing heroes and see what comes up. For “Old Man,” go to youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1rAB0yDeU.
