Sifry’s Alerts

A reminder for all of you NYC bloggers and geeks out there: Andrew Rasiej is graciously opening his home for for folks who RSVP from 6:30-8:00PM on Monday night the 24th. His place is at 13 Leroy Street in the West Village. Please RSVP here in the comments, Andrew says that he only has limited space (about 40). So drop a line below noting how many people will be coming so he can prepare…

Adriaan has released Ecto 2.2, and it has built-in support for Technorati tags! Cool. All of you Mac OSX bloggers, you definitely should go and give Ecto a try. Very nice.

Tags: ecto, technoratitags, technorati, cooltools

If you’re looking forward to a fun half hour of a great rant by one of the web’s leading thinkers, have a listen to David Weinberger at the Harvard Faculty Club after dinner of the Blogging Journalism and Credibility conference. Can’t wait until Jay Rosen‘s concluding remarks are available on the web as well.

Tags: webcred, joho, podcasting

This is very very cool. If you run a kwiki wiki, you can now get an easy plugin to show Technorati cosmos links (who’s linking to this page?) on every wiki page. Here’s the link to the plugin and to the announcement.

Neat! Shows that the barriers to becoming a programmer are getting lower and lower. Here’s a firefox plugin from the folks at ratherbiased.com. Great job guys! This gets me thinking I need to write more stuff about all the cool stuff all the Technorati developers are doing, and give all of you some publicity. Will do.

Tags: technorati, firefox, search

Here’s a pretty interesting idea, and there’s lots of tools now sitting around to make this happen. Andy Carvin spoke about how he started mobcasting (mobile + podcasting + smart mobs = mobcasting) Basically, using free tools like Blogger, Audioblogger, and feedburner, you can make a phone call, leave a voicemail message, and then not only have that MP3 posted to your blog but also added as a podcast to your RSS feed. Neat stuff, but STILL too hard. But I’m tremendously encouraged that these tools can help to cross the digital divide as these tools are even more fully integrated into mobile phones and mobile networks.

Tags: webcred, mobcasting, podcasting

To answer a question that was brought up by Jeff Jarvis during his session, the three blogs that are being sued by Apple are ThinkSecret, AppleInsider and PowerPage according to Wired News.

Tag: webcred