Technorati Competitor: Gnoos Australian Blog Search Engine Gnoos is providing a similar search engine (as Technorati) but with an Aussie influence. It is still much faster than Technorati and seems to produce sparse but spam free results. Not nearly as many features as in Technorati, but that might be a benefit rather than a disadvantage in maintaining a fast response. Also, in related news, TechCrunch is reporting that Ask/Bloglines is offering a limited blog search and they are conducting their news searches from within 7000 pre-approved blogs and news sites. This blog is not one of those being searched.

WP Themes: Template Monster Five modern looking (and free) WordPress themes from Template Moster.

Google AdSense API? Are we on our way to seeing an API for Google AdSense that would allow publishers to offer ADSense modifications/signups without having the publishers leave their site. It would be the logical solution for Google since they would just make more revenue from ads.

Ike Uneasy Rhetoric is a paean to my hometown, Sacramento, California. I loved it, I left it, I came rushing back into its fry’an’egg on the sidewalk hot embrace. A politically aware community activist by design (living in the capital of the world’s sixth largest economy), my blog will also contain a smattering of political banter, some wistful nostalgia, and the occasional foray into rhetoric. CT hahmed.com Catnabbit My site could always use some more cat loving visitors, and I’ll be keeping up to see what other sites you feature! SB Pop Occulture. I’ve been trying to stay true to the whole “write good content” thing for about three years now, covering all aspects of fringe culture from everything to technology to pop culture, to conspiracy and contemporary spirituality. Thanks in advance for the opportunity to spill my guts here! http://www.jesseslife.com I think there’s some outdoorsy people that may be […]

WP theme: Prebuilt Two column, tabbed, sophisticated theme for WordPress with Flickr integeration and some extra commenting features. The initial screenshots look encouraging though I could not find a demo.

The machines have a blog Your gadgets are blogging. All your base are belong to us.

Windows Live Expo Broken in FF: It is really sad that the Microsoft folks are still not testing their code and their pages in Firefox.

WP Theme: Tarski Two column, elegant, simplistic yet very attractive theme for WordPress. I even tried it completely without any header image and it stands very well on its own as a more professional looking blog.