⇒ Three Los Angeles-based blogs—perennial number one Boing Boing, plus The Huffington Post and Crooks and Liars—are in Technorati's Top 10 based on link popularity.

⇒ Remember the USC cheerleader who got excited when Texas scored in the Rose Bowl? The blog Independent Sources spots her elsewhere.

⇒ Film writer Kim Morgan blames Jerry Bruckheimer for her car being towed. (Defamer)

⇒ Sandra Tsing Loh guest-blogs at Cathy's World to point a finger at KCRW for leaving Chris Douridas on the air given his alleged, uh, problem.

⇒ De-columned columnist Michael Fumento isn't too happy with Cathy Seipp this week. (Romenesko)

⇒ KCRW will suspend its pledge drive to carry President Bush's State of the Union speech Tuesday at 6 pm. The Democratic response will follow—the English version, not the one that Mayor Villaraigosa is delivering.