It’s official. TMOE is on the New York Times Best Seller List Top Ten—weighing in at #8 this week.

Chatting with Bay State Bloggers

JK held a conference call with some Massachusetts bloggers last week and a couple of them wrote about it.

sco from .08 Acres had a long entry. Here are a few of his comments:

I participated in a blogger conference call with Senator John Kerry. David Eisenthal has a report on the call, and other participants included Susan from Beyond 495, Lynne from Left in Lowell and Andy formerly of Mass. Revolution Now, and currently of a new mysterious blog project.

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Senator Kerry is exactly right on decentralized energy. He hoped that decentralized energy sources would be a big part of how we deal with energy problems. With the proper incentives, the marketplace will begin to provide more choices for consumers. He talked about putting tax credits or other programs in place to make putting up your own solar or other renewable energy system affordable, and he’s looking personally to be on a “green grid”.

One thing that David did not mention was how well briefed Senator Kerry was on all of us. I’ve done a bunch of blogger conference calls in the past and Kerry is so far the only one who had been at all prepped on all the participants.

Ahem, it’s not just being briefed. As noted elsewhere, he’s a pretty regular consumer of blogs with a little help.

David Eisenthal of The Eisenthal Report noted that JK talked about This Moment on Earth and specifically about The Silent Spring Institute, (a favorite topic of JK bloggers this week here and here).

Sen. Kerry said that another objective of the book was to communicate the idea to business that positive steps on the environment can be economically healthy. He believes that business “can do well and do good” on the environment – “by doing good, they can do better.”

Blogger questions ranged from the environment to the war in Iraq to a potential impeachment of President Bush.

Best Buddies Bike Race

And as for other things happening in Massachusetts, there’s a bike race coming up on May 19 2007 for Best Buddies. What is Best Buddies? Check out their background here but in short, it’s “the world’s largest program that creates friendships between persons with and without intellectual disabilities.”

For the past two years, JK has participated in the Volvo Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port bicycle race. This year, he is riding again, and asking for your help and support for this important charity.