Time magazine has named 25 blogs to its First Annual Blog Index and, joy of joys, Regret the Error made the cut. I'm very surprised, not to mention thrilled that my site is listed among personal favorites like Lifehacker, Gawker, Boing Boing, and Radosh. The Regret entry is here, and you can also add your personal rating for the site. Vote for me!
This is the write-up:
Mistakes happen, especially in the media. Everyday, thousands of bonehead mistakes are printed in newspapers and magazines and go out over the airwaves, and only a tiny fraction of the errors are ever corrected. Regret the Error is the media consumer's revenge, a regularly updated compendium of media mistakes big and small. The big mistakes get plenty of coverage elsewhere — the plagiarized newspaper columns, the fabricated news sources, the memoirs that are — how shall we put this — totally made up. Regret the Error covers the big whoppers, but it really shines on highlighting the small stuff that the media gets wrong. Small, that is, unless you're the person being written about. There's a useful yearly roundup of errors, corrections, and plagiarisms, and some of that material has been compiled into a book. Read 'em and weep.