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It's time for the Friday night blog roundup, a recurring feature of Journalism of the Web. Links are listed on your right, so I won't repeat them here. Your guide to recent posts:

• Adam Marschilok shows how ESPN combines convergence journalism, bowling and Monday-night football.
• Celia Soudry wonders whether federal agents might have had something better to do than to pull an eighth-grader out of class because of her MySpace page.
• Chelsea Petersen reports that Apple has found an innovative way of tweaking Microsoft: using iPods to transmit a Windows-crashing virus.
• Chris Estrada ponders former Des Moines Register editor Geneva Overholser's just-released manifesto on the future of journalism.
• Evan Brunell shares the difficulties of digital entrepreneurship in an update on the redesign of his sports Web site.
• Glenn Yoder says the NBA's latest online venture is characterized mainly by contempt for hometown fans.
• Jane Mackay checks in from New York, where a new mashup can help you when you really need to go, and from Boston, where the Net is tracking a boozy debate.
• Lisa Panora writes about the virtual reporter Reuters has assigned to the online simulation game Second Life, whose appeal escapes me entirely.
• Mike Naughton is smitten by the interactive, customizable political map that's available at NYTimes.com. Check out the view by population.
• Rajashree Joshi's reaction to Second Life is exactly the same as mine: "[W]ho would want to do something like this?"
• Thomas Chen has thought about George W. Bush's MySpace page and decided that the president probably doesn't eat kittens. That's a relief.