Louis Gray says the biggest blogs aren’t really blogs any more.  He’s right.  The good ones are the new old media.  The bad ones are pro sports:  all about the money and the bling.

Darren Rowse on building your personal brand through blogging.  Good, common sense advice.

@Rick: I’m not on the Vlog wagon (yet), but FYI the video doesn’t show up in feeds.  That seems to me to be a big drawback.  As far as the video blogging thing goes, I like TDavid’s Hmmmcasts (which has an enclosure in my feed, but won’t play).  A couple of minutes.  Good information.  Someone should invent an application that allows people to do remote video podcasts, with little Brady Bunch boxes for each participant.  That would be very cool.

I wish someone loved me as much as Scoble loves Zooomer.

Seth Godin has an interesting post about coaching.  I have done a fair amount of coaching and, for me, being coachable all comes down to one trait: the ability to listen as opposed to just hear.

@Tony: Why are you feeding the troll?  Starve him.  Like a cold.  Or is that a fever?  I can’t ever remember.  As usual, Amy gets it.

Newly subscribed: Chris Kasten.  Newly unsubscribed: None, but there are several on the verge.

Movie Recommendation: another scary one.  The Messengers.  Netflix link.

AARP has a list of 50 Things You Need to Know by 50.  I love number 3.  I used to not know that.  That one and this one were written about the same waitress.

Doc on Facebook vs blogging: “The logic required here is AND, not OR. Both are good, for their own reasons.”

Stargate Atlantis via Line Rider.  This is cool, and took someone a long time to create. (via Michael Parekh – Hey Michael, I added you as a Twitter friend and then had to dump you because of my Pink Floyd Policy; In the words of another great band, Why Can’t We Be Friends?)  More sci-fi goodness.

Susan Getgood on ghost writing.  I’m not a PR guy, but I can tell you this.  If I was reading a blog by a stated author and found out some hired hand was writing it, I would unsubscribe immediately.  And I would not be happy with the company for misleading me.

Now we have a virtual secretary for social networking.  Aren’t we making just a little too much out of these sites?

Claus Valca has some great Vista tips.  Includes some ways to deal with the dreaded User Account Control.

Ian Forrester on the iPhone: “the hype is getting stupid.”  Amen.  But so is the hype about everything that remotely relates to social networking.

Newly subscribed: Paul Lester (via Earl); Donna Bogatin (see below).  Newly unsubscribed: None.

Donna Bogatin has left Digital Markets and taken the solo blogging plunge.  Her new blog is InsiderChatter.com.  I’ve subscribed.

Generally, when I read about some internet giant buying a smaller company, it makes me sad.  But I hope Amazon does buy Netflix, because Amazon is probably the only company who could buy Netflix and not screw it up.  There might be a sales tax problem holding this deal back.

Tom Morris has started a podcast.

Jericho is coming back.  That’s excellent news.

Zoli Erdos has a good write-up on the latest in the Zooomr saga.

Daily Cup of Tech has a list of online generators of custom graphics.  You know, those sites that let you put names and whatnot on signs, tombstones, concert tickets, etc.

Here’s a very interesting read about a man man who has suffered from anterograde amnesia for 40 years. (via Shelley Powers)

I didn’t know they still updated Netscape Navigator.  To quote Mini-Mac quoting some TV show I never saw: “If what you say is true…I still don’t care.”  That rule was later codified as the Rule in Tommy Lee’s Case and the subsequent Care Bears Doctrine.  Stated another way, is there anyone who really cares?  If so, here’s the Navigator story via Wikipedia.

I’ve mentioned this before, and I’m fixing to do it again:  Engadget and Gizmodo should have a self-imposed limit of 6 posts a day.  I find the sheer number of posts oppressive.  And I don’t read them.  Which means I never see the ads.

Covestor is intriguing to me.  I am not going to give up my brokerage account information, but I have long thought that investing via social networking was a relatively untapped market.  I’d love an online application that lets me create a private group for investing tips, investment clubs and maybe a way to create a personal stock index based on my portfolio.  Om has a good write-up on Covestor.

I guess Newsome.Org was number 36.  Bummer.

Scott Karp has a great write-up on WordPress vs Movable Type.  As someone on the verge of breaking out of the Blogger trap, I am very interested in the differences between the major blogging platforms.  Shelley Powers thinks the train has already left the station and Movable Type wasn’t on it.

Tom Morris likes Google Gears.

Tony Hung agrees with me about Guy’s real return on Truemors.  Guy in general, and Truemors in particular, are great proof points for Seth’s theory of the blogosphere.  Having said that, let me say again for the record that blogging is about links (whether we like it or not), and Guy has done a great job of leveraging on his connections to grow his blog.  It just irritates me, that’s all.

Based on Thomas Hawk’s review, I can’t wait to get my hands on a Drobo.  I have tried every known manner of redundant backup and have found no satisfactory solution to date.

Randy on Mark on the wasted internet.  I guarantee you American business loses millions a day to the loss of productivity caused by the internet.  If I were a business owner, I’m not sure what I’d do about the internet.  My hunch is that people who are inclined to goof off will do it one way or another.  Take away the internet and it will be something else.  Plus, it’s unfair to those who use the internet reasonably to take away their access because someone else surfs the net all day.  It’s a tough issue.

@Mathew: All he wants is the attention and that $12K got him a ton of it.  If he really wanted to create a successful Web 2.0 application, he would have listened to those of us who accurately predicted the problems he would face.  Rather, he elected to take anything critical as an attack.

@Richard: I’m not sure how Technorati works from the inside out, but Dave is a good guy and will help fix your issues personally if you ask him.  He helped me repeatedly when I was having problems getting indexed.  I have noticed in the past few weeks that Google picks up links to my blog faster than Technorati does.  Good thing for Technorati that (a) they have the link count/authority thing working in their favor and (b) Google is completely ignoring its blog search engine, as far as promotion and new features go.

I’m not sure I like the plea for a donation at the end of every post and now the $30 bounty for feed subscribing at Bob Meets World, one of my Swivel Feeds.  It makes me think he’s, um, blogging for money.  Paging TDavid for his thoughts on this sort of thing.

On the other hand, Quasi-Fictional knows how to link out, and get linked back.  It feels much more like a win-win, in the Darren Rowse mode.