Howard Kurtz's online popularity continues to climb steadily, as he added 24 friends over last week to bring his grand total to 834. Howard also had several status updates, mostly about his book tour, including:

Howard is glad he survived O'Reilly and GMA today and getting pumped for Olbermann and Jon Stewart on Thursday. It's all about selling books!

Howard is blogging about his book "Reality Show" at http://anchorw ars.blogspot.com. Up 73,000 percent on Amazon yesterday!

Howard is reading about his new book "Reality Show" on Huffington Post, Drudge and Media Bistro. Here's the WashPost excerpt: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content.

Howard is reading Drudge to find out what's in his new book "Reality Show." You can read the WashPost excerpt at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007.

Howard is reading the Drudge excerpt to find out what's in his new book on the network news wars. http://www.dru dgereport.com/ flashhk1.htm.

Howard is waiting for Drudge to post more about his new book.

Howard is anxious to assure his fans he has never used "the clear"--or broken any sprinting records.

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