PaidContent.org: Bloglines sold to AskJeeves: Can ANY small Internet company last anymore? I hear of Flickr being worried about acquisition by various bigger fish as well.

Site-Flavored Google Search: Check to see what “flavor” your site profile falls under. There is some discussion that profiles might become essential for SEO. Thanks JD

WordPress Placid Theme: Brownish two column basic theme for WordPress that could be a nice starting point for many bloggers.

PaperBlogs: Print your blogs into real books The Print on Demand vision has crossed over to the blog world, which until now has been exclusively electronic. A new service called blogbinders is offering to “turn your weblog into a book!”. It supports a variety of blog types, including Movable Type, LiveJournal, Typepad and Blogger.

I am incredibly impressed with the latest Gamma of WordPress 1.5 in spite of being very biased. I started a new blog today with it and it was a very satisfying experience, much like I had felt the first time I started a blog on b2 (Thanks Michel). I was so impressed, that I would like to share some of my pleasures with my readers. I am not new to WordPress, nor am I new to WordPress 1.5 but I had not started a new blog with the intention of making it public for sometime now. I had forgotten how much fun it can be. With the dazzling array of eye catching templates and themes to choose from, I was in heaven. I downloaded one that I liked, uploaded it to the themes folder, switched designs, changed permissions to allow me to modify templates on the fly, modified the header […]

Updated WYSIWYG Plugin For WordPress WYSI-Wordpress now uses the TinyMCE engine, a secure file upload/delete function with an image uploader/browser. Plugins for both WordPress 1.2 and 1.5+

Yahoo Japan launches blog beta: Yahoo Japan has beaten Yahoo to the blog punch!

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