Daily Kos turned three yesterday. At that time, Markos was lucky to get 100 visitors a day. Today, Daily Kos is the most amazing phenomenon in the blogosphere, averaging 500,000 visitors a day. It is a community of voices, but as Armando, another major contributor to the blog explains, it all really goes back to Markos.

Markos is the magic here. Yes the Community is the heart. But Markos created the space, created the conditions and created the spark that has made dailykos what it is today.

So lift your virtual glass, a toast to Markos.

Indeed. Congrats and many, many more, Markos.

Your turn, your topics. Have fun.

Say hello to our new advertiser, Images of Justice , which has taken out ads on several blogs on Blogad's newly formed Law Blog Advertising Network. Artist Trevor Goring attends almost all of the continuing legal education seminars and meetings of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL.) I've viewed his art up close for years and can highly recommend it. I also consider Trevor a friend.

Trevor Goring's work is represented by the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. He has written and designed two successful art books, lectured on the history of law in Paris, painted the portraits of leading litigators and Supreme Court Judges and appeared on radio, television and in numerous publications. His works are to be found in hundreds of private, corporate and public collections.

Thanks to reader Diane who mailed in a contribution to TalkLeft this week. I don't know her e-mail address so I can't write her personally.

Our web hosting bill just came due, and if any readers would like to contribute a few dollars, it would be very appreciated.

If you missed our weekend coverage, scroll down. Between TChris and me, there are 30 new posts.

Truly the news of the weird today...a blogger writes a post about letting his sister's boyfriend into the house, and within hours, the siblings are dead. Police zeroed in on the boyfriend after finding the blog post, decimating the guy's alibi. [Via the Drudge Retort.] Here's the blog post:

Anyway today has been weird, at 3 some guy ringed the bell. I went down and recognized it was my sister's former boyfriend. He told me he wants to get his fishing poles back. I told him to wait downstair while I get them for him. While I was searching them, he is already in the house. He is still here right now, smoking, walking all around the house with his shoes on which btw I just washed the floor 2 days ago! Hopefully he will leave soon...

Blogger Michael Berube had an emergency appendectomy Friday. He could use your get well wishes, his wife said it was "hairy."

Update: Michael is home and resting comfortably. His sense of humor is intact as you can tell from his description of his "hairy" appendectomy.

I'm so glad to see this. Armando at Daily Kos agrees the compromise to the nuclear option is not in our best interests if it allows Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown to be confirmed. Josh Marshall of Talking Points seems to agree. We need more of you to speak up.

My thoughts are here. The latest from CNN confirms that five of seven would be confirmed. I'm still hearing only Myers and Saad would be rejected.

Update: Thanks to Ian of Political Teen for putting up the video of Connected Coast to Coast's blog report yesterday on the compromise. TalkLeft got a nice mention.

Tristero breaks his blog silence to agree that the compromise should be rejected.

I won't be back here tracking developments until later this afternoon, so here's a space for you. Three to get you going:

I see London, I see France, but spare me Saddam in his underpants. Ideas of how the London tabloid got the photos? How long till Crooks and Liars gets the video?

Check out this filibuster - nuclear option guide which the Wall St. Journal has made available online for free. It has some details other guides are missing.

And President Bush said today he'll veto stem cell research legislation. Your theocracy at work.

Blogads has initiated The Law Blog Ad Network. It allows advertisers looking for legal blogs to find them easily and with one click, place their ads on multiple blogs. For advertisers, it eliminates the guesswork in finding their target audience.

We're starting small, with eight law blogs. We're trying to attract advertisers of law products, so we're keeping it to lawyers who principally write about legal matters. In other words, if you're a lawyer who blogs mostly about food, you should join the Food Ad Network, not the Law Blog Network.

We will be adding more blogs to the network. Ideally, we'd like to have at least 25. Joining is by invitation, and you will have to carry a link to the network on your site. You also should have some decent traffic numbers on your site and a reliable counter.

You can be a member of multiple networks, for example, I'm also a member of the new Liberal Blogs Ad Network, which launched last week with 44 blogs. Other examples are the LA Blog network, the baseball network and the gay network.

Henry Copeland, the founder of Blogads, believes as the number of blogs continues to grow, ad networks will be the wave of the future.

If you're interested in joining the Law Blog Ad Network, send me an e-mail with any questions.

My email box has been overflowing with German spam for a few days. Crooks and Liars tracked it down:

Direland has the scoop The racist spam that has flooded inboxes from Australia to Anaheim with hundreds of thousands of e-mails is designed to boost the NPD's score in elections this coming Sunday in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populated state. The Sober.Q virus, Der Spiegel says, is "the newest version of the Sober virus, a worm that infects address books and sends a copy of itself to all the entries. Various security firms have released warnings that they received hundreds of thousands of Sober.Q emails within the first 24 hours of the virus' outbreak."

Update: The news is now reporting on the growing problem.

What's on your mind this weekend?

I'll be off-line much of the day, so here's a space where you can pick the topics of discussion.