(UPDATED approx. 9:30 a.m. with a Shake Well Before Use post at the bottom.)

For your humor, thinking and just surfin’ pleasure, I offer the following for your consideration:

Yom Kippur: A Post of Atonement, Gary Goldhammer/Below the Fold (Gary is sorry. I can relate to quite a number of Gary’s apologies. So, even though I’m not Jewish, I am sorry as well.)

Dear Americans, Noble Duty Milblogger Coalition/A Soldier’s Perspective. (A letter to Americans from President of Irag Jalal Talabani.)

September 2006 issue of PR-e-Sense, with a focus on corporate blogs, PRIME POINT Foundation. An India-based PR e-zine, with podcasts. (Note: Check out the great piece by the guy on page 7 of the e-zine, in pdf format.) Seriously, it’s great to get industry perspectives from around the world.

Cafepharma discussion board. A follow up to my earlier post on discussion boards. With so many anonymous posts, the pharmaceutical industry must be a dangerous place for employees. Found the board from ex-Pfizer exec Dr. Peter Rost.

Small Business (A Special Report), by WSJ’s Gwendolyn Bounds. I’ve only glanced through this, but it looks like a good read. I found it from another blog, but don’t recall where. My apologies for no pointer.

bloggers, where are they now?, Ariel/ShakeWellBeforeUse. Great observation and question at the end. Here’s a teaser: “New bloggers are only as good as their last post, but is ‘blog tenure’ deserving of such leniancy?”