Weekly Wrap Up of Pop Culture in the Blogosphere

Here are a few of the things that moved me this week:

• Coop introduced me to the concept of PaintBlogging over at Positive Ape Index via a thought provoking post on Boing Boing.

• Divine Caroline dot Com’s Brie Cadman taught be about the worst artery cloggers in America (I may never eat French fries again).

• Guyutae’s “Craziest Internet Marketing Contest” is now up to $13,647 in prizes and Jcyreus dot Com could really benefit from a blog makeover! Drawing is set to be held April 2.

• I read about then downloaded a great blog composing tool on TechCrunch called Zemanta. It works real well for Wordpress bloggers in the way that it integrates with the Wordpress admin console and helps to find relevant news articles, external links, images and generates tags as you compose each new post. You can test drive a demo here and download the application for free if you would like to give it a try (Jcyreus recommended).

• I found out from Tommy at Sticks of Fire that Google Maps finally added Street View for downtown Tampa (now I have something to do this weekend while waiting for my house to sell in Wisconsin).

• And finally, MrGaryLee taught John Chow dot Com’s readers just how easy it is to produce and syndicate Podcasts using a Mac (now I really can’t wait to get my hands on a MacBook Pro).

I hope this weekend is a great one for you. I think I’ll head out for a run to see if I can’t shed a few of those winter lbs before the weather warms up.