In "The Self-Hating Blogger," Tom Watson announces that he is no longer willing to "smooch under the mistletoe of media misunderstanding." He's retiring from the blog business effective today, disgusted by bloggers blogging about bloggers.

Watson is officially calling a top to the blog market: "Blogs are yesterday's news. Dead. Unbreathing. Anachronistic folly of the followers. Mere digital entrails. We're talking lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Fury lay buried dead. The crooked crosses and headstones, the spears of the little gate, the barren thorns, the whole deal. The Dead. Another trendline I've followed to the downward side of the peak..."