Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Dave’s back with a refreshed analysis. The blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. We are currently seeing about 30,000 – 40,000 new weblogs being created each day. Part of the growth of new weblogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs – fake blogs that are created […]

A bunch of lady bloggers are considering a conference geared towards raising women’s visibility in blogging. Sort of like a Lilith Fair of Blogging. Full details… Extra: South by Southwest – First Impression – White. Male.

Confirmed: formerlyROSIE is really the blog of Rosie O’Donnel.

Reflections on a blogs in education project from The Community Engine Blog: My answer is this. By design, blogging allows individuals to raise topics of interest and create threads of conversation without having to ask anyone’s permission. That was an explicit design consideration for this course; I wanted to know what was going on with […]

The more you spend on marketing, the more your messages often seem monolithic, corporate, impersonal, and one-way — streaming out from the ad agency to the consumer with Niagara-like force. A blog is a wonderful counterpoint to this, because it’s naturally small, personal, even quirky. Research shows that consumers get tired of the smoothly polished […]

Rick points to Tim’s post on why blogging is good for your career: You have to get noticed to get promoted. You have to get noticed to get hired. It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top pageâ€? or “Oh, just google […]

This little online app will take an image you upload and convert it into a header read for use in your Kubrick template:Kubrickr

Lance has the goods on MSFT’s web-based, MSN-search-integrated aggregator.

Lee has a link to a slew of podcasting tips.

(via Larry Lessig) Kembrew McLeod’s great new book, Freedom of Expression, has just been released. You can buy it from Amazon, or download it under a Creative Commons license here.