I found 
perversion tracker today. I particularly liked the review of Skull Cracking Deamon.
I noticed mark's apology on boingboing. I had tried to install newsmonster too, had similar problems, but figured that was only what I should expect with installing beta software. Beta software certainly means different things in different environments. In the linux world, production versions are the ones that demonstrably had no bugs years ago. Microsoft never releases software as bugfree as the debian unstable tree. Really wonky software is usually labeled "alpha". On MacOS X, however, you have to watch yourself. Safari, the new Apple web browser which is now out in beta, ate a few people's home directories. Oops! Sorry about that! You didn't really want a home directory, did you? I usually wait a few days when I see something new for MacOS X -- especially if it is prominently described as a beta thing. What I really wanted to talk about is the potential in a blog to so rapidly put your foot in your mouth. It's not that different from usenet or mailing lists, but there is a distinct lack of social cues from other people to help you reign in your stupidity when it gets out of control. Anyway, I thought the apology was good form. Kudos.
One thing I notice about blogs is how solipsistic the community seems to be. They mostly seem to be commenting on one another: Bob says that Jack says that Suzy says that Hildebrand says that the AP is reporting blah, blah, blah. I don't see a lot of people talking about their own personal experiences as much as reading other people's blogs. Reporting your own personal life is just a bit scary, though. It's an interesting balancing act.