Dr Ferber\’s new advice green lights co-sleeping 
Blogging Baby - Dec 29 4:19 PM
Filed under: Health and Safety , Lifestyle , Media The New York Times sometimes covers issues I really didn\’t even know existed. Have people really been ashamed to cosleep with their babies? It seems all over the message boards I frequented when my kids were little people proudly co-slept. We have discussed cosleeping here at Blogging Baby, and when the AAP said cosleeping was bad , Save to My Web

Florida teen home after his unaccompanied visit to Iraq 
Blogging Baby - Jan 01 6:04 PM
Remember Melissa Summers telling us about Farris Hassan\’s day off in Iraq, ostensibly to practice \”immersion journalism\” ? In an essay he penned before his departure, he expressed his desire to help the people of Iraq. However, Hassan is only 16, and while he is of Iraqi descent, he was born and raised in Florida. He arrived in Iraq alone, and unable to speak Arabic. CNN is reporting Save to My Web

Authors hoping to expand their reach in Amazon forum 
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Jan 01 4:59 PM
Shoppers looking to pick up Meg Wolitzer\’s latest novel, The Position, on Amazon.com last week found the usual readers\’ comments and excerpts from reviews. They also found something unexpected: posts on the subject of literature from Wolitzer herself.Save to My Web

WordPress 2.0 Released 
Slashdot - Dec 31 4:41 PM
cyberchucktx writes \”Version 2.0 of the Wordpress open source blogging software has now been released.\” From the post: \”In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything was instantly done on the backend. We\’ve modified how this works now so posting should be near-instantaneous, like Save to My Web

Jane Hamsher: Russert Watch: The Out-to-Lunch Bunch 
HuffingtonPost.com via Yahoo! News - Jan 01 4:07 PM
I realize that a New Year\’s day \”Year in Review\” roundtable on Meet the Press is probably devoted to bloviating by design rather than happenstance, but it would\’ve been nice if someone had managed to pick up a newspaper before the cameras started rolling.Save to My Web

2006 Coming Attractions 
Gadling - Dec 31 8:33 PM
Filed under: Stories Hard to believe I\’ve been at this blogging thing here for almost a year. Late January should make for a complete twelve months and I couldn\’t have found a better fit to explore the web and report my findings. A never ending journey trying to tackle the best finds not only for you guys, but for myself too! And as of tomorrow there will be some new features and exciting Save to My Web