Baghdad blogging

Two observations:
(1) Salam Pax, who hit the bigtime (a column in the Guardian, a book deal) has foresaken his blogroots, having not posted meaningfully for months, and so has forfeited his claim to be the Baghdad Blogger.
(2) The newly-anointed BB (and, to me, always the more incisive, informative and certainly consistent) is Riverbend, whose posts, including her latest one about the "Governing" Council, are so right on that one wants to shout them from the rooftops (or the minarets or whatever).
Write on, Riverbend, right on.