"No cat will ever go ill again in America again in obscurity." AOL buys up 200 blogs, from well-known ones to ones like ScratchMyselfRedAndYellow.org, in a deal brokered by Dave Winer. No news on how many AOLTW board positions will go to A-List bloggers.

"You can't really put figures on this," one executive told The Register , "but we think we have 78 per cent of the libertarian news blogs, 91 per cent of the ClueTrain Manifesto fan sites, and 59 per cent of all blogging female arts graduates, many of whom are Virgos," he said.

In related news, we have been unable to confirm the rumoured merger of Virulent Memes with the Albury Mail, however, we can tell you that The Null Device is not being acquired by News Corporation to become James Murdoch's new personal blog.

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