Technorati’s blog tracking system has found 100,000 blogs were created each day in the third quarter of 2006, and 55 percent of all blogs were active enough to have been updated with a new post at least once every three months.

The Streaming Media conference now has video of a lot of its sessions up.

The “Conversation with Eric Schmidt” was interesting for a couple of reasons yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit.

Ultra-geeky and venerable tech news site Slashdot will have its job listings powered by JobThread, a company that provides the site publisher with the turnkey software in exchange for a piece of the classified action.

After asking the question Do you have a Web Strategy?, I thought it was important to give a closer look at what the term really means.

Guy Kawasaki has an interview with TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington where he talks with Mike about how to get covered there.

Proving that Microsoft is not the monopoly in all aspects of computer technology, the company has reached an agreement that they hope will help the Zune digital music player compete with Apple iPod.

Dan Farber has a good summary of John Battelle’s chat with Eric Schmidt at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit.

I was just reading feeds for my link blog.

I’ve always liked Jeff Bezos persona as he comes off as a very honest and energetic guy who’s passionate about the web and what can be done on it. He started out by talking about the Amazon we know today that has 61 million active buyers and will surpass 10 billion in 2006 sales.

Neil wrote a very nice piece called The 5 deadly sins of blogging - I thought I’d add a few more of my own to the list. Here’s 5 of the deadlist sins I’ve made and witnessed.

Cool – Google CEO Eric Schmidt is standing up against warped gov’t privacy invasion attempts. The Guardian today writes:

Just as it’s important to choose the right colors for your design, it’s also very important to make good choices about the fonts you use in your design.

Google cut off Ionut Alex. Chitu’s only current option of making money from his blog, Google Operating System, by disabling his AdSense.

Google has launched a new blog called Google CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) according to a report by Threadwatch. http://www.threadwatch.org/node/9881 Google plans for the blog site to be a tool to communicate with the general public, advertisers and other agencies. Their …

Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion has a brief interview he did with Megaphone Mark Cuban, billionaire media mogul and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, in which the two talked about things like the “Long Tail” of the Web (and Mark’s own coinage – the “vert ramp” – and how it affects new media. As is his wont, Mark shot from the hip about what the future holds and where advertisers should be putting their money, saying:

Zack, the three examples you give appear to me as signs that OSS is under attack by vendors who don’t gork the value of an open community & the customer value delivered. Yep, even the MSFT deal with Zend.

About a year ago when Riya first launched with a big splash as a new Web 2.0 company with super exciting facial recognition software I was excited. I was super excited.

The newest 2G iPod Shuffle comes with a convenient clip attached for consumers to, as the commercials demonstrate, clip onto the pocket of a pair of pants. That may seem like a relatively simple and convenient concept, but there’s one …

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched an initiative to help increase awareness of countries that actively censor the Internet, and singled out Yahoo’s Jerry Yang for specific complaints about his company’s dealings with oppressive governments.

In case you all were wondering what’s going to become of Google Video now that the YouTube purchase has gone through, I think Google has an answer for you – it’s business as usual. Not only is Google Video going …

Okay, someone explain this to me: Intel, a company that makes microprocessors, is backing and selling - but not profiting from – a suite of “Enterprise 2.0″ software for companies that includes blogging software (Typepad), a wiki (Socialtext), and RSS feed software (Simplefeed and Newsgator), called Suite Two.

TheServerSide has a thread announcing that the Apache Geronimo team has released a performance profile for Geronimo 1.1.1.

Industry analysts have been watching the worldwide web closely over the past few months to see how political ads fared in Election ’06. Surprisingly, it appears that many politicians do not see the value in paying for Internet advertising.