While I’m not a user of it yet in any real sense, I can say with confidence that I expect Groovy to grow and become a stable platform. The ideas and people behind it are terrific. However, there appears to be some problems with the project as it attempts to get over the hump. There are potential lessons here for open source project mangagers. I hope people share how they get past this point.

Philadelphia bloggers rule the Koufax awards. Make sure you go vote.

Did you know there was a Firefox extension that shows you the Google PageRank of any page? It works great.

One thing I found out right away was that my home page has Google juice. Philly Future has none. Zilch. So I ask you, my fellow friendly bloggers, let the world know where to find our humble Philadelphia blogger online newspaper.

Google hires two prominent Firefox engineers, rumors of it launching a VOIP service emerge, it launches a TV show search service, and now this.

BTW – don’t you just love the term “dark fiber”?

Go read the details and vote.

You, or news reader software so enabled, can utilize the subscription data of any user at Bloglines. Here goes mine if you care to see them.

Shelley Powers writes the most thought provoking post so far on Technorati Tags. Yeah, I’m biased, so if you don’t believe me, check out the most popular links on del.icio.us.

I’m still coming to grips with tags, what they are, and how I want to use them. I’ll tell you one thing, this is mighty interesting.

Wired: Lawrence Lessig: Wired 13.02: VIEW: “After its Warner label, Reprise, decided that the group’s fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was no good, Wilco dumped them and released the tracks on the Internet. The label was wrong. The album was extraordinary, and a sold-out 30-city tour followed. This success convinced Nonesuch Records, another Warner label, to buy the rights back – reportedly at three times the original price. The Net thus helped make Wilco the success it has become. But once back in Warner’s favor, many wondered: Would Wilco forget the Net?”

Dave King’s ImageBurst looks pretty neat. I gotta give it a try. Here goes a few samples. You never know what you are going to get when looking at the most popular pics at Yahoo!

Yesterday I gave instructions on how to roll your own Philadelphia blog aggregator using the OPML file at Philly Future. Today I share links to some popular news/blog aggregators.