Well, it’ll be a big weekend for reflection on the events of the last decade, but before we leave you to it, there were a few interesting little notes today in Paul Barry’s The Power Index, a sister site of Crikey, with its announcement of its number one most influential “megaphone” in Australia – Andrew Bolt. (Regular consumers of Australian media won’t be surprised to discover that nine of the ten people on TPI’s “most influential” media figures list are right-wingers.)

We’re often asked why we waste so much time on the voluminous but intellectually weak outpourings of the Southbank “knows the power of repetition” Jester. Well, Matthew Knott’s profile of the man gives you some good reasons why.

A staggering 11.7 million Australians pick up a paper featuring his column each week and around 3.5 million actually read it, according to Roy Morgan sectional readership data…

Bolt blogs like a man possessed. It’s not unusual for him to start posting entries before 6am and continue until midnight. No other Australian commentator uses the medium as effectively to ram home a point, whip up outrage, tear down opponents and mobilise supporters. His site, which has been running since 2005, attracts almost 275,000 unique browsers a month, making it the most-read political blog in the land.

We suspect Knott was somewhat over-generous concerning the Gina Monologues’ ratings, though.

But onto happier things in the comments. Although happier things are probably not what this weekend is going to be about, come to think of it.