popurls is a site which pulls together all of the latest posts from popular aggregators like digg, del.icio.us, furl, flickr, reddit, tailrank and slashdot. Where will it end?

Dan Gillmor verbally slugs it out with journalism professor Samuel Freedman on the pros and cons of citizen journalism.

EContent discusses the looming online advertising inventory crunch and what, if anything, can be done about it.

The founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, is investing $5m of the $400m fortune he made selling his email setup to Microsoft, in a service with the eponymous name BlogEverywhere.com. The plug-in allows you to post comments on any website and also see comments from other users. It also promises faster Hotmail access among other “site enhancements”.

There’s a lot of money going into behavioural advertising companies, such as the $48m which has just been invested by Technology Crossover Ventures in AdKnowledge. That followed hard on the heals of Tacoda which raised $12m in it’s third funding round. You might well think this was the new frontier…

We Brits are destined to be spending $3bn a year on digital downloads of all kinds by the end of the decade according to research by Datamonitor and Paypal says PaidContent.org.

Linden Lab, publisher of the popular MMORPG “Second Life”, just received a further $11m in second-round funding according to PaidContent.org.

The Guardian Online is in profit according to PaidContent.org which was quoting Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing.

Neville Hobson reports (via Steve Rubel) on the mountains we have to climb in Europe on the business blogging issue. In particular:
* 42% have heard of blogs but don’t read or contribute to them:
* 37% are not aware of blogs
* 11% said they read blogs
* 7% monitor blogs
* 7% find blogs useful as source of business information
* 2% write blogs

Find a blog (or site) you link, paste the URL into similicio.us and it will find you others which are similar – based on del.icio.us tags. Clever.