Just so you know, a lot of blog fodder lately has been harvested from the people/groups/organizations/newspapers that I follow on Twitter. I just found two good things via @anamariecox.

Justine Larbalestier talks about why publisher put a white girl on the cover of her novel, when she had in mind a black girl.

She also pointed to an article about blogs in the New York Review of Books. She tweeted, "I wish I wasn't the kind of person who counts the number of women in any given list of experts, BUT I AM."

Global perceptions of US over time. The numbers have improved since Obama was elected. The French love us.