Arianna's Internet Thing--Update

Arianna Huffington has exploded onto the Net today with The Huffington Post, a place for news and commentary. Because it's the hot thing, she's got a blog component, but it's a group blog to end all group blogs. As of right now, there have been 63 blog posts since noon yesterday, all but two of them since midnight last night (and fourteen of them are listed as "featured posts" on the front page). The participants range from Walter Cronkite to John Cusack to David Mamet to Senator John Corzine. If they continue to add posts at that rate, they'll overwhelm readers, and a lot of the material will simply be lost and overlooked. Still, if they can get a good rhythm going, this looks to be an intriguing addition to online reading material. A couple of blog posts I enjoyed were Larry David on why we should cut John Bolton a break on his shabby treatment of underlings and Arthur Schlessinger on why, notwithstanding George Bush's recent comments to the contrary, Franklin Roosevelt didn't offhandedly sell out Eastern Europe to the Communists at Yalta.

UPDATED--Nikke Finke says it's all going to come crashing down.