I'm probably just the last one to know -- it's what I get for never reading newspapers -- but I stumbled into this off a sidebar on the Sun-Times site this morning, and man, there's some really good stuff in that stream ...

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Dig: You just sign up, anyone can do it, you get a blog space to rant in, a place to list your events, you get featured in the sidebar, other folks can take you to task with comments, hey you can even ... place ... your ... pictur-- Hey, wait a sec ... that all sounds awfully familiar ...