Some quickies

Man, back on the west coast and things sure have been busy!

Some interesting links to pass on:

Ask buys Bloglines. Congratulations, Mark! Nice scoops, Mary and Susan! PaidContent has a good writeup too.
Salon on Tags.
Speaking of tags, Burningbird has a neat use for Technorati Tags: Tagback! Very cool.
Socialtext rolls out a big upgrade. It includes Technorati integration. Kudos, Ross and team.
BusinessWeek on Web Services, featuring Technorati's grand prize contest winner, Joshua Tauberer of Govtrack.

More interesting stuff:

Add Technorati search to your blog. Even if you can't add forms.

Reminder: Geek/Blogger dinner in NYC tonight

A reminder for all of you NYC bloggers and geeks out there: Andrew Rasiej is graciously opening his home for for folks who RSVP from 6:30-8:00PM on Monday night the 24th. His place is at 13 Leroy Street in the West Village. Please RSVP here in the comments, Andrew says that he only has limited space (about 40). So drop a line below noting how many people will be coming so he can prepare...

Ecto 2.2 with Tag support!

Adriaan has released Ecto 2.2, and it has built-in support for Technorati tags! Cool. All of you Mac OSX bloggers, you definitely should go and give Ecto a try. Very nice.

Tags: ecto, technoratitags, technorati, cooltools

David Weinberger's great speech at dinner last night

If you're looking forward to a fun half hour of a great rant by one of the web's leading thinkers, have a listen to David Weinberger at the Harvard Faculty Club after dinner of the Blogging Journalism and Credibility conference. Can't wait until Jay Rosen's concluding remarks are available on the web as well.

Tags: webcred, joho, podcasting

Way cool: kwiki-technorati

This is very very cool. If you run a kwiki wiki, you can now get an easy plugin to show Technorati cosmos links (who's linking to this page?) on every wiki page. Here's the link to the plugin and to the announcement.

New Technorati search Firefox plug-in from ratherbiased.com

Neat! Shows that the barriers to becoming a programmer are getting lower and lower. Here's a firefox plugin from the folks at ratherbiased.com. Great job guys! This gets me thinking I need to write more stuff about all the cool stuff all the Technorati developers are doing, and give all of you some publicity. Will do.

Tags: technorati, firefox, search

Mobcasting, an interesting idea

Here's a pretty interesting idea, and there's lots of tools now sitting around to make this happen. Andy Carvin spoke about how he started mobcasting (mobile + podcasting + smart mobs = mobcasting) Basically, using free tools like Blogger, Audioblogger, and feedburner, you can make a phone call, leave a voicemail message, and then not only have that MP3 posted to your blog but also added as a podcast to your RSS feed. Neat stuff, but STILL too hard. But I'm tremendously encouraged that these tools can help to cross the digital divide as these tools are even more fully integrated into mobile phones and mobile networks.

Tags: webcred, mobcasting, podcasting

The blogs that Apple is suing

To answer a question that was brought up by Jeff Jarvis during his session, the three blogs that are being sued by Apple are ThinkSecret, AppleInsider and PowerPage according to Wired News.

Tag: webcred

Here at Berkman

OK, I'm at the Berkman center and we're nearing the end of the first session. It seems that a number of people are tagging their posts with the webcred tag/category, so I'll follow the trend, and do that. There's also a feed aggregator set up by Dave Winer as well...

More to come, we're just wrapping up the morning sessions. Very interesting stuff.

To tag your own posts, here's what you do:

What's all this? This page shows all kinds of goodies from the web about webcred. To contribute, just make a post to your blog about webcred and include the link below. More Info »
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/webcred" rel="tag">webcred</a>

Boston Geek / Blogger dinner Saturday night!

Just a reminder - Dave Winer is organizing a dinner at the Bombay Club Saturday night in Cambridge MA. It starts at 6:30PM Saturday night. See you there!