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We love, love, love this blog: Flying People
Cute, simple, urban design + a flair for finding the weird and wonderful = your very own online personal shopper to help you discover gift ideas for those ethereal, funky people in your life who inspire you above and beyond the drab department store counter toward true gift-giving greatness.

Featured notions on the blog this week include: Fornarina's collaboration with darling designer Tokidoki, French Rabbit boxed wines (who'd have guessed such a thing could be stylish?! But it is, oh it is!), darling Poshpigs piggybanks, and the works of Chino Aoshima among other things.

Granted, this isn't your usual shopping list fare - allow Flying People to introduce you to something, or someone new. And if you don't know what Fornarina is, who Chino is, or what a Poshpig is - all the more reason to check it out.

It seems that the bigger we get the more they want to analyze us (we = the blogosphere in general).
Last week it was a Technorati survey, this week it's an analysis of which media source people trust more: "Europeans trust blogs more than television ads or email marketing. Newspapers were still more trusted than blogs. 52% also said they were persuaded to make a purchase after reading a positive blog review."
With the high-profiles of many bloggers seen as a tool to leverage profit, another study reveals how bloggers planned to monetize their web pages: "AdSense (45%), developing information products (42%) and affiliate programs (39%)." The question was asked of only 415 bloggers (a teeny tiny fraction of the blogging population) and in comparison to a similar survery taken last year the results showed that bloggers are less likely now than previously to muck up their designs with those ugly contextual ads (like Google AdSense and Yahoo!, etc.) and are leaning more toward the creation and marketing of their own products.

Not only is the blogosphere the new media, developing and morphing every day, it also seems to be an equally promising new economy.

According to a recent Technorati survey - which is now reportedly keeping track of 57 million+ blogs, "Every day 100,000 new blogs are created and 1.3 million posts are made..."

In an article on the topic from the BBC it was also reported that "Farsi - a Persian language spoken in Iran and Afghanistan - has moved into the top ten languages of the blogosphere for the first time...English and Japanese remain the two most popular languages in the blogosphere. Despite problems for bloggers in China, Chinese remains at number three."

And in yet another article, a survey by British company Netcraft reveals that, "The internet has doubled in size since a May 2004 survey showed 50 million websites. Netcraft's first survey, conducted in August 1995, showed 18,957 websites." There are now more than 100 million websites on the internet - up from 97.9 million in October to 101+ million this month.

Netcraft credited blogs and small business websites as the driving force behind the explosive growth.

We get alot of great submissions to the Bloggapedia directory and every once in a while are so inspired by their originality, their silliness, their creativity, their sheer inventiveness, their just-plain-strangeness that we've got to share them with you.

Today, it is our sincere pleasure to introduce you to:
The official blog of FSM Australia - The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

No, really.

The church, Wikipedia explains in a long and detailed description, is "a parody relition [sic] founded in 2005 by physics graduate Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution"

Also available for your reading pleasure is, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster which lists The Eight "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts" including tenet number one:
"I'd Really Rather You Didn't Act Like a Sanctimonious Holier-Than-Thou Ass When Describing My Noodly Goodness. If Some People Don't Believe In Me, That's Okay. Really, I'm Not That Vain. Besides, This Isn't About Them So Don't Change The Subject."
and tenet number seven,
"I'd Really Rather You Didn't Go Around Telling People I Talk To You. You're Not That Interesting. Get Over Yourself. And I Told You To Love Your Fellow Man, Can't You Take A Hint?"

Check out the official, and very funny, blog authored by the head-Pastafarians themselves (Pastor Len Guini and Pastor Al Dente) here.


Want to know how to get your blog mentioned here?
When you submit your blog to the Bloggapedia Directory, write a creative, accurate, description - max 250 characters, so keep it short and sweet! If we take notice, we may give you a write up.