I issue this challenge to bloggers.

Let’s set a new goal.

From this day forth, any blogger who is writing an entry for public consumption must either get the facts right or provide some analysis of those facts that is accurate, logical or at least makes a little sense.

Let me make this clear. I am not suggesting that a blogger do both of these things.

For example, you can get your basic facts totally wrong as long as your analysis and strong opinions related to those wrong facts are solid.

or…

You can get the facts right, but then come up with conclusions that make no sense whatsoever.

All I am suggesting here is that you do not get the facts wrong and then throw in a ridiculously unclear and unsupported opinion or analysis based on those falsities.

Babysteps.

Of course, I only make this call for blog posts on subjects I actually know something about. For the rest of the stuff, feel free to stick with the wrong facts slash bad analysis. It’s incredibly entertaining.

Five years from now, will Steve Jobs ability to open up the world of downloadable TV programs be viewed as one of his most important contributions to the the tech and entertainment world (and I mean even bigger than the iPod)?

Typepad has launched their new Widget program. Typepad users can now add tools and widgets to their blogs with one click from one of 30 partner sites. The system is incredibly well executed and allows Typepadders to add functionality to their blogs without any copying and pasting. Well done.

Of course, we all have our favorite widget...

Cederholm makes a stand…

The raisin has plagued the oatmeal cookie like a parasite, stifling its untapped potential as a (if not the) premier baked good of our generation.

I’d kill for this guy.

As the diehard fans transfer their demands for a new home for Arrested Development (there will be none) to other television causes, one is left to wonder why this show, loved so dramatically by so many, was ultimately watched by so few.

I never missed an episode and thought the final four were incredible. But I always wondered – in a home without TiVo (god forbid) – whether it would have been the kind of show I would’ve made sure to be home in time to see.

I don’t know why I question that. But I do.

It’s still unclear exactly what’s going down in Afghanistan when it comes to the Christian convert:

An Afghan man threatened with execution because he converted from Islam to Christianity is expected to be released from custody at the end of the day, a Western diplomat and Afghan officials close to President Hamid Karzai told CNN Sunday.

But other sources in the Afghan judiciary said the case against Abdul Rahman had been thrown out on technical grounds and sent back to prosecutors to gather more evidence. Those same sources said Rahman may not be released.

A new democracy treating its citizens with unfair brutality based on religion, ethnicity or race? Is that possible?

Oh, wait a second…..