I’m going to give My Web a try. Furl initially grabbed my attention, but never took hold as a browsing habit. Integration with my Yahoo! account is a huge plus.

Then again, I’ve found since I’ve added search to this blog, and the JustBlogIt extension to Firefox, I don’t use bookmarks nearly as much.

I’m not into WYSIWYG web site editors like FrontPage and Dreamweaver, but Nvu looks interesting. Who knows, maybe it can displace HTML-Kit as my recommendation for friends and family? I kinda doubt it. But is my insistence on taking the time to learn HTML old fashioned?

Om Malik on Broadband » Business Week, Blogs, and Business: “Now that blogs are in the cover of Business Week, you can safely say two things – blogs have gone mainstream, and blogs are over.”

It’s not about blogs… it’s about participatory, on demand media. It’s about communication and connecting. Text based blogs are just one expression of that.

…Umm. Guys? A number of indie bloggers already make more each month than you make. And their year-over-year growth trajectory is a lot greater than yours. And they don’t have to worry what the boss thinks. And they’ve each got a brand name people adore. And they’ve got the lowest overheads in the publishing industry. Who do people want to work for — your failing industry, or themselves?

Allow me a prediction: indie bloggers are going to kick corporate ass.

…If you think publishing has been transformed, don’t you think that its twin sister advertising is also being turned inside out? While traditional advertising is about megaphones and cheerleading, blog advertising is about conversing, listening as much as you talk. Think that the 20-management-tier command-and-control structure of conventional advertisers is going to be comfortable with crawling into this bee-hive?

Scale? Who has more scale than the blogosphere?

Relationships with advertisers? (Remember the “relationships” that buggy makers used to have with their customers?)

To take on bloggers, large publishing corporations (themselves slowly collapsing) will have to re-allign their cost structures, organograms, sales channels and mentalities.

Worst of all, they are going to have to cannibalize their own sales. They won’t do it.

It is not just publishing that is changing. Corporate publishers are going to have to change their relationships with advertisers. Heck, advertisers are going to have to change their relationship with advertising.

…In entrepreneurship, there’s a constant and healthy tension between dreaming about the next decade and focusing on today’s nitty gritty. The advantage bloggers (and their vendors) have over traditional publishers is that they ARE the users and the lag time between idea and execution is weeks rather than years. And the feedback loop is measured in minutes rather than years. So the innovation cycle is exponentially faster. As regular readers of this blog know, I don’t envy the corporate publishing incumbents (emphasis mine).

Business Week predicts corporate takeover of blogs

MSNBC: Report recommends freeing detainees held for weapons knowledge. They have found nothing and the search has “gone as far as feasible”.

#TvTorrents has left the building. Sad. It was the best Bittorrent/broadband site I knew.

The Yahoo! News beta is looking good. I like the new layout. Note how they let you rate stories: they will probably add a feature to show you story recommendations.

One of the funniest message forum posts Posted in Communications, Connection, Internet, Web, Media

Programming:PHP – Wikibooks has a handy little guide for setting up your PHP developer environment and getting started.

Unlike so many other articles that have been written on blogs, I find myself pleasantly surprised by Business Week’s latest. Not by its triumphant declaration, but its tidy summary of how participatory, on demand media will shake up and alter how companies, organizations, and people communicate.

Of course they start their own blog on the subject. The article reads like one long love letter to folks they want blogrolling it. Still, it’s a must read.