Weblog Tools Market – Update February 2005: As collected from Google, technorati and a couple of other aggregation sources. The analysis is detailed but the data collection methods are somewhat flawed in my opinion. Hosted services continue to dominate the blogging market but the increase in overall numbers is quite encouraging. There are some interesting takes on this analysis. Livejournal, Typepad and MT together seem to be part of the largest blog provider in the market. Well crafted strategic decisions made by Moveable Type seem to be paying off. Thanks Threadwatch

WhatCounts Introduces BlogUnit, the First Technology Appliance Designed to Address the Growing Need for Corporate Blogging: Wow, thats a niche not served yet! Thanks Newswire

Blog Spam Clearinghouse: A new tool-agnostic clearinghouse for information on blog spam and how to fight it. Thanks Skippy

WordPress 1.5 Inside Scoop: A quick look into the final stages of WordPress 1.5 development. If you are interested in a WordPress 1.5 release, you should read this.

Google’s Attempt To Reduce Comment Spam: I am not sure how much this is going to help since the Google redirector does not seem to deter spammers in the first place. On the other hand, if rel=”nofollow” was enforced on every link from a dynamic site, it might help (but Im sure that will piss off a lot of people)

BlogChina buys out competitor: China’s Movable Type/LiveJournal merger alternative? Via: BlogBlog