Electablog and Davenetics are now one blog…

You can get the details here.

Cruise around the new site. There might be a few kinks, but I think we’ve got it pretty buttoned down. Whether you were a Davenetics (now Davenetics:Media) reader, an Electablog (now Davenetics:Politics) reader, or both, I think you’ll be happy with the new combination. And there is now a new category called Musings for all the posts that don’t quite fit.

Because this is going out to the readers of each individual blog, this post is in both the Media and Politics categories. In general, though, post categories will be distinct.

You can still read the the blogs the way you used to. Only a few names have been changed.

All of your old RSS feeds will still work. I recommend scrapping them and instead opting for the new main Davenetics feed that includes posts from all the categories. You can make your selection on the new Syndicate Page.

And by all means, your feedback is invited.

It all may seem like a small change in the big scheme of things. But after all of these years of blogging one way, it’s actually a fairly massive psychological shift for me to be making the change.

It’s sort of like when Tiger Woods changed to a different set of clubs.

Well, that analogy doesn’t really work, because Tiger was great before making the switch. But with all of the pressure surrounding the change, I couldn’t come up with a decent Pauly Shore analogy.

Could the key to maintaining America’s dominance depend on us maintaining our waistlines?

Can we use the fact that we’re fat to our advantage? We spend a boatload of dough on fried foods and a truckload on diet books, plans, pills and fads.

Slate: Instead of seeing our obesity as a crisis, maybe it’s time we recognized it as an opportunity – the rare chance for the United States to dominate a new industry.

Of course, the way things are going, we’re likely to outsource being fat soon. When it comes to scoring that gig, I’m sure there will be plenty of takers around the world.

In the meantime, eat up.

After London, police departments around the U.S. are gearing up to face the threat of bombings in their cities.

Across the country, police departments large and small are preparing for a possibility once thought improbable and now feared to be inevitable. On Thursday, the day of four attempted explosions in the London subways, the New York City police began randomly searching bags and backpacks at subway stations and other travel hubs.

It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that the UK response to the terrorist acts was in large part a police enforcement reaction. During the months after 9-11, a common refrain used to attack one’s political opponents for being soft was to hint that he or she viewed fight on terror as a law enforcement issue.

A lot of times, that is exactly what it is. Especially when the terror is being conceived and carried out in your backyard.

Eliot Sptizer has tackled his latest case after coming to an agreement with Sony under which the company will put a stop to the use of payola to buy radio air time.

According to Spitzer:

This agreement is a model for breaking the pervasive influence of bribes in the industry. Contrary to listener expectations that songs are selected for airplay based on artistic merit and popularity, air time is often determined by undisclosed payoffs to radio stations and their employees.

I was actually under the impression that radio air time was based on how hot the performer’s midriff looked on MTV.

It turns out that meeting someone via online dating is about to become the equivalent of picking up someone for a first date on horseback. In other words, decidedly old school.

The hip new kids know online dating is over and that it’s now all about mobile dating (at least until the brain chip implants are ready).

Prospective couples are now meeting each other via their cell phones. And best of all, the phone knows where you are in relation to the possible object of your affection.

This certainly adds a new urgency algorithm to the dating game.

You will ultimately be confronted by the following choice.

Either you can approach someone who is a nearly ideal match but is a few miles away or you can have someone who isn’t all that close to being a match but who is only a few feet away when it comes to physical proximaty.

Have a few Red Bulls and Vodka before answering…