JG etc.

It is bright, cute, user-friendly, and it definitely confirms the idea of blog search as a portal.
Niall Kennedy points out some of the walled garden features:
Unlike many other search sites Technorati’s link structure seems designed to keep people within its pages. A linked blog post title on the site homepage points to a URL search [...]

The latest:
It takes money to spend money….. Technorati gets a new round of funding
My old boss Chris Redlitz has left Feedster. (Via GigaOM)
Chris talks about his new ventures here.
Good luck to everyone.

My guess is no, and it will probably be phased out by 2007. Just like Apple was the first to phase out the floppy drive, IE, and the dial-up port.
The WebOS is coming to a theatre near you……
What are contextual ads around numbers going to be like?

More signs of discriminating when building a blog search index.
“Instead of crawling, Ask Blog & Feed Search harnesses the subscription data of hundreds of thousands of real people who use Bloglines, the #1 online feed reader, to create our search index. In the absence of a mature link structure, people provide the best way to [...]

MySpace was one the first to give people a glimpse into the success you can have when you give kids/young adults an online paintbrush and allow them to create, with minimal restrictions, whatever they want. A lot of people look at the style sheets on MySpace pages and cringe. But I’m pretty sure many [...]

Marshall gives up some great trade secrets here. I like how he uses some web tools to be one of the first ones to break a story and how to find your way into a meme aggregator.
A little piece of his post:
Here’s some free advice: nonprofit organizations wanting to do issue-based outreach with their blogs [...]