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Mark Jaquith reveals a list of 16 US agencies that are confirmed to be using WordPress, either internally or publicly. Among those are the Air Force, Army, the NSA, and the DEA. Full list here, released on WordCamp San Francisco 2008. Possibly Related PostsWordPress 2.6.1 is Out Now, Update if You WantWordCamp 2008 CoverageWordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp 2008, WordPress Rules the UK, and WordPress Plugin News

Steve Kagen's campaign claims in a fundraising e-mail that former White House political adviser Karl Rove called him Republicans' top target this year - but Rove says he doesn't recall saying that.

A survey conducted by Rosanna Guadagno at the University of Alabama reveals that neurotic women are more likely to blog: This is consistent with work on internet usage that also found an association with neurotic personality types, but only among women. The researchers surmised that nervous women may blog to "assuage loneliness or in an attempt to reach out and form social connections with others." The survey was conducted among 300 students at the university. For more, read the BPS Research Digest post, found via Guy Kawasaki's tweet. Possibly Related PostsDuncan Riley Interviewed Over at BloggerTalksFake Steve Jobs Becomes Real Dan LyonsFemale Bloggers Want Out of Playboy Poll

Blog Action Day began in 2007. It's an annual nonprofit event that brings bloggers from around the world together to blog about a single cause on the same day.

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox is recovering from spinal surgery after being forced by a back injury to return home early from an AIDS conference in Mexico, the star's Web site said on Monday. She was flown back to Britain last

''I moved home with my parents. At least I am fortunate enough to have them. It's just weird. . . I should be taking care of them.''In 2002, Dennis Neville quit his job as a massage therapist because one of his fingers stopped working.The next year, he

The 110m hurdle gold medal at the Athens Olympics makes Liu Xiang a legend of Chinese sport. After Liu broke the world record in 2007, he became synonymous with sport in this country. If you'd asked a Chinese what the highlight of the Beijing Olympics

Your little tyke will be the first one to accomplish something special today -- something that will make you take notice. Perhaps they can start the day by impersonating an alarm clock as a way to wake up the entire family. Today's Aries Reading: Free

Hundreds of Bloggers in 'The Big Tent' Will Have Robust, Predictable Wireless Access As They Cover Convention SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Hundreds of bloggers and independent journalists covering the Democratic National Convention in Denver

An interesting piece by Tim O'Reilly over at O'Reilly Radar asks if linking to yourself is the future of the web: At the time, I noted the way that more and more information that was once delivered by independent web sites was now being delivered directly by search engines, and that rather than linking out to others, there were strong signs of a trend towards keeping the link flow to themselves. This thought re-surfaced when Techcrunch launched Crunchbase. Now, rather than linking directly to companies covered in its stories, Techcrunch links to one of its own properties to provide additional information about them. I noticed the same behavior the other day on the New York Times, when I followed a link, and was taken to a search result for articles on the subject at the Times (with lots of ads, even if there were few results). I remember it was just a few months ago that I noticed that the New York Times was doing this to their own content - embedding links in stories that took you t