Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Patrick Gavin, of FishbowlDC, today links to an old New Yorker profile of Christopher Hitchens countless more times. He’s got to be doing this as some sort of grand meta-joke, right? Hopefully the punchline will be soon revealed. Meanwhile, a record number of posts from Inky today: Zero.

DC Bachelor spends the day plotting revenge against BHR for linking to his YouTube video yesterday, which he, himself, posted on the Internet in the first place. Insiders say that he revels when shining the unflattering spotlight on others (remember the Illuminati!?), but hates it when given equal treatment. Somewhere in this fair city, a proud DCist-affiliate is laughing and drinking a savory box of wine. (Owned?)

Kathryn scribbles another lengthy, boring item, this time about…blah, blah, blah…you get the point by now. For some odd reason, she makes a vow to post today “at least every hour.” Fails. Miserably. Tsk, tsk. Martha Stewart says that promises should always be kept. A lady like Kathryn should definitely know that secret by now, especially as she begins to settle into her thirties. No?

Gavin makes the list again today for incorrectly linking the scoop on Laura Session Stepp’s new book to DCist when, in fact, the Tiny Movements blog deserves the credit. Is that how he was taught to source at the Examiner, or wherever he was a journalist before he landed at the Examiner? We, of course, attributed correctly. 

Wonkette’s Alex Pareene links directly to a Gawker media sister site, Defamer, for the second time in less than a day and to Deadspin once thus far. When you click the link for these posts, you end up at Defamer/Deadspin, which, stats say, are both already much more popular destinations than Wonkette (which just might be why those properties had the political scoops in the first place). We always thought that cross-promotion was supposed to help the ailing party, not the other way around.

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Mary Ann Akers, that superb gossip over at Roll Call, recently got engaged to journalist Michael Isikoff, co-author of the new book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq. So, of course, we had to ask her all about the wedding and if she would, in fact, be wearing white.

“I hate to let you down (as i tell you’re a regular reader of Martha Stewart Brides) but I’d feel like I was having some kind of a slapstick theatrical comedy if I had bridesmaids, a wedding planner, etc.,” she told Big Head Rob. “I enjoy going to nice elaborately produced weddings, but I can’t imagine having one.”

The gossip extraordinaire says that “whatever, wherever it is… the wedding will be simple, laid back and above all, fun!” Sounds like she’s aiming for an event modeled after herself.

In any case, if she wants us to be her wedding planner, we’re more than willing… Thinking along the lines of pink and peach bridesmaid dresses…

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Or so the crooner told Martha Stewart today. Insert your own jokes here.

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And she’s the only one surprised, reports Lisa: Read more…

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I’ll admit it, I am one of the few who haven’t read Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.” As soon as I’m done with “The Martha Rules” (oh, Martha), I have to get started on it.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see him give a keynote talk in D.C. where he briefly outlined his book. His point, if you haven’t heard by now, is that the global economic playing field has been leveled and Americans largely aren’t ready. Wealth, he says, will go to the countries, companies and individuals that have the infrastructure to connect to the new global platform; are educated to take advantage of the platform; and have the governance to take advantage of it.

A compelling lecturer, I have to say that Friedman’s hypotheses are intellectually orgasmic and definitely made me want to restructure BIGHEADROB.com to take over the world.

But I keep coming back to the title of his book. If the world has become micro- and macro- connected and is communicating more than ever, hasn’t it gotten more round? Wasn’t it flat when individuals were not able to connect (via fiber optic cables, the Internet and podcasts), and thus didn’t know what knowledge lay past the edges of their literal computer screens?

I know my thinking here is so Native American (call me savage), but I think the interconnectedness will allow certain people to thrive, while many others will be overwhelmed and ultimately quashed. It’s like it was when Columbus “discovered” America, brought new ideas (and Christianity and disease) to the “New World,” caused millions of “Indians” to die — and ultimately had sex, which, in turn, led to me.

The world was round then, it’s round now. Most smart Americans don’t want the fate of “dead” Indians to be their own. But, a reminder here, Indians aren’t dead. Luck, combined with hard work and imagination has helped Native communities and individuals survive and sometimes thrive within the unexpected contexts that ensued since 1492. That, I predict, will also be the fate of some Americans in this strange circular world. Just how many remains to be seen.

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