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.

The fact that there are some idiots playing the censorship card over Linden Labs policy prohibiting “real-life images, avatar portrayals, and other depictions” of sexual acts involving children, sexual violence including rape, and other “broadly offensive content” is precisely why Second Life is not even close to being ready for serious business use.  I understand that who defines “offensive content” is an important issue, but that doesn’t mean anything goes should be the policy in Second Life any more than it is the policy in the first one.

Engadget has a Tivo Deathwatch update.  I had my own Tivo Deathwatch going, until DirecTV made me switch to their inferior PVRs.  Meanwhile one of those new satellites that are supposed to give us all those HD channels has been delayed.

Jeff Balke on Hurricane preparedness in Houston and Galveston.  Eric Berger may be “even-handed” now, but he adopted the “our job is to scare people” approach during Hurricane Rita.

Pramit Singh asks if blogging can change the world.  No, but the more efficient distribution and archival of information via blogging platforms can certainly change parts of it, similar to the way internet distribution is changing the music business.  Seth is correct that blogs have not flattened the earth as much as we’d like and there are still a lot of A-Listers (and, surprisingly, a lot of non-A-Listers too) who stare at you blankly when you talk to them, but it has at least made the hills smaller.

This dude has a 60 story house and a servant staff of 600.  Are you kidding me?

I still think this is a joke.  If Google buys this site, then we are definitely in the midst of Bubble 2.0.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the usefulness spectrum, Web Worker Daily has 7 Applications for Online Note-Taking.  For most of us in the corporate world, the two biggest issues with respect to online note taking are backup and security.

It’s a slow day in the blogosphere.  So here’s a little link around with the bloggers currently in my reading list.

ACE, Amy Gahran, Assaf Arkin, Ben Metcalfe, Ben Werdmuller, Bill Liversidge, Chip Camden, Corey Clayton, Craig Newmark, Dave Rogers, Dave Sifry, Dave Taylor, Dave Wallace, Dave Winer, David Airey, Doc Searls, Dwight Silverman, Earl Moore, Ed Bott, Eric Scalf, Ethan Johnson, Frank Gruber, Frank Paynter, Fraser Kelton, Greg Hughes, Haydn Shaughnessy, Hugh Macleod, Ian Delaney, Ilker Yoldas, Jackson Miller, Jake Ludington, Jay Neely, Jeff Balke, Jeff Pulver, Jeneane Sessum, Jeremiah Owyang, Jeremy Zawodny, jkOnTheRun, John Watson, Karl Martino, Kate Trgovac, Kevin Briody, Kevin Hales, Larry Borsato, Lifekludger, Louis Gray, Marc Canter, Mark Evans, Martin Gordon, Mathew Ingram, Michael Parekh, Mike Seyfang, Niall Kennedy, Nick Carr, Om Malik, OmegaMom, Phil Sim, Pramit Singh, R.C. Morin, Rahul Sood, Ric Hayman, Richard Querin, Rick Mahn, Rob Barron, Robert Gale, Robert Scoble, Rogers Cadenhead (that’s 8), Ron Jeffries, Scott Karp, Scott Kingery, Seth Finkelstein, Seth Godin, Shel Israel, Shelley Powers, Steve Gillmor, Steve Newson, Steve Rubel, Steven Streight, Stowe Boyd, Susan Getgood, TDavid, Thomas Hawk, Tom Morris, Tom Reynolds, Tony Hung, Wally Bangs, Warner Crocker and Zoli Erdos.

And those who are already in my new Swivel Feeds reading list.

Amyloo, Anne Zelenka, Ballastexistenz, Be A Good Dad, BldgBlog, Blonde 2.0, Blogging Pro, Bob Meets World, Bonnie Staring, Brad Kellett, Chris Brogan, Christopher Carfi, Claus Valca, D’Arcy Norman, Daily Cup of Tech, Dan Santow, David Rothman, Deborah Schultz, Hilary Talbot, J.A. Konrath, John T. Unger, Les Orchard, Lisa Stone, Mike Miller, Nancy White, Natalie Goes to Japan, Nick O’Neill, Opacity, Paul Greenberg, Paul Stamatiou, Quasi Fictional, Read/WriteWeb, Robert Andrews, Struggling Writer, Tresblue, UNEASYsilence and Zen Habits.

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit.  My mom used to tell me that saying “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” as your first words at the beginning of a month would bring you good luck.

Congratulations to Dwight on the publication of his first book!

Here’s the real MySpace vs Facebook debate.

Looks like we don’t have to eat salads after all.

We Weren’t There: When Bill Met Steve at Carlsbad.  Nobody ever gets my puns, so here.  I loved the We Were There series as a kid.

Every time I drive by Cassidy’s first preschool I smile, and think about my then itty bitty Punkin who is now half way to 18.  She doesn’t even remember going to that school.  Kids grow up so fast.  Hug them.  Love them.  Take a lot of pictures.

Google Street View Hunting.  When you think about it, it’s just as arbitrary as drinking coffee.  The NYT’s take.

There’s a new version of Windows Live Writer available for download.  Lots of new features.  Kevin Briody likes it.  Why in the hell does it flash every time I add a link to a post?  It’s User Account Control (which I long ago disabled) all over again.

Mahalo launched today.  Steven Streight has a good write up on it, as does Mashable.  Mahalo says it’s:

the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven’t yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results.

There’s a page for Scoble, one for Guy.  None for Seth.  Or me.  Seems oddly familiar….  Anyway, why does a search for wolves return NOFX (whatever that is), Kevin Costner and Instapundit as 3 of the 4 links?

Scott Karp has a good summary of the CBS/Last.fm business.  It’s about the declining radio ad dollar.  One of these days someone is going to start looking for a return on all this money old media is tossing around trying to become new media.

I was a guest on Dave Wallace and Mike Seyfang‘s The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show podcast tonight.  It was an absolute blast!  I’ll link to the episode when it’s up.