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Mike Mitchell sent me the link to a Gallup Poll about blogging published today. The bottom-line can be summed up by one paragraph. Gallup’s annual Lifestyle survey, conducted Dec. 5-8, 2005, finds only 9% of Internet users saying they frequently read blogs, another 11% read them occasionally, 13% say they rarely read them, while 66% never read them. The tone ...

An article in Wired News today is about how some Second Lifers are beginning to make money by transacting business in the "community." Yeah, they don’t like to be know as a "game"; it’s a community of about 130,000 people carrying out many of the activities of RL (real life, aka, "meatspace"). Second Life has it’s own currency–Linden dollars–that can ...

There’s an extension you can add to Firefox called Performancing that enables you to post to any of your blogs directly from your browser. And you can post the same thing to more than one blog. It also gives you quick connects to Technorati and Del.ici.ous.

Well, this is new. At least to me it is. I logged on to my Amazon.com account and what to my wondering eyes should appear? Patricia’s Plog. Here’s what Amazon has to say about this. Your Amazon.com Plog is a personalized web log that appears on your customer home page. Every person’s Plog is different (hence the name) and just ...