It's technically New Years Eve where I am, as I write this. I haven't done much blogging over the past week, because I've been re-charging my batteries and making plans

William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed

On 9 January 2005, I published the first of my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-ups. When I launched it I described it as "a weekly summary of news and views relating

Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it

After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I've calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I

- Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit 'Center for Citizen Media', moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat] - The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their

This image from a Scott Gatz presentation sums it up: 2005 was about introducing RSS to the products listed in Scott's picture. 2006 will surely be about how to organize

Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose

I've published a post on ZDNet that details how the Web was used for good in 2005, in very bad situations. It was actually something I wrote for the book

Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background... I've been thinking for a while now about re-focusing