Just a quick FYI that I’ll be blogging Kelsey Group’s Drilling Down On Local 2005 conference next Tuesday and Wednesday. My goal will be to live blog ‘notes’ from the majority of the sessions (Blogger.com and connectivity permitting), followed by…

Yahoo’s launched a new beta of their Yahoo! News service. While at first glance it looks largely like a UI refresh (which Yahoo! has been busy doing across its network), there are some interesting improvements (and oddities) worth mentioning… Of…

In a long overdue move, Yahoo! is offering free web sites (up to five pages total) to small businesses. Chris Sherman at SEW has the best early write-up, noting (my edits in brackets): “The new program is available to any…

Perseus Development Corporation announced earlier today that their recently completed blog survey shows that 31.6MM blogs have been created to date; further, they project 53.4MM blogs by the end of the year. These numbers don’t exactly jive with other blog…

Google just announced that they took Scott Johnson’s advice (no acknowledgement though…) and have added a captcha to new blog creation in an attempt to eliminate the automated creation of spam blogs. Excellent. Now guys, can you please make it…

The ladies behind the BlogherCon discussion have officially announced their conference, to be called BlogHer. The conference is a one-day event scheduled for July 30th 2005 @ the TechMart in Santa Clara, CA, USA. Registration is $99.06 (or $21.73 for…

Speaking of Searching by Cell Phone (but, alas, not voice driven in this case), SEW reports that Google Local is now available for mobile searching. Had drinks with a friend this weekend who mentioned that Google was moving aggressively to…

Deeje Cooley has been calling for an automated podcast transcription service for a while now. I’ve been meaning to comment on this, but wanted to tie in some other thoughts (what’s new). But today, I learned (via Rubel) that a…

…And eventually, the sun will shine on your little corner of the world. My thanks to the folks at Feedster (Disclosure) for naming buzzhit! the Feed Of The Day.

So, Greg Linden of Findory was kind enough to drop by yesterday and leave some thoughts regarding my post on automated tag creation. Greg, I realized this morning — with a fresh pair of eyes — that I completely missed…