I've resigned from my day job, so in 4 weeks time I will be fully self-employed. I'll be doing freelance analysis and writing work, plus an exciting project which I

- Google does RSS... sort of (you can now add RSS feeds to your Personalized page by clicking 'Create a Section'. It's made with cool Ajax, but this is

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- IDG CEO quoted in Wired: "Every blogger is a rock band without a record contract." (I guess I'm supposed to dislike that comparison, but strangely it agrees with me...

- There are 1.12 million feeds in Bloglines that "matter", says Ask Jeeves Blog (meaning at least 1 person subscribes to it. nb: SEW and Niall both point out

I'm making yet another attempt at a regular branded list of Web 2.0 links. Let me admit straight up that I've copied the following format from Ypulse, Anastasia Goodstein's excellent

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You've got to hand it to Technorati, they sure know how to get media and blog attention. A recent Wired article makes the extraordinary claim that Technorati is "a public

A bit of admin before I start. The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is looking for a new sponsor, now that ThePort Network has completed its sponsorship arrangement with me.

I know it's the weekend and not the ideal time for a blog conversation, but there's a great one happening in the comments of my recent post On Bots and