Funny americanism.
A recent meme that has been making it's round on several of the blogs I subscribe to recently is the Baseball test for journalists. Everyone seem to love this idea, but as an European, I've never even seen a baseball match. Moreover, over here most sports journalists are idiots, so you can see how I have some problems applying the test to other journalism. One could speculate that this is a clear indication on how americanized the blogosphere is. (Note that I don't have anything against american sports journalists. Hunter S. Thompson, my favorite author of all time, spent a lot of time covering various sports arrangements.)