ZoomClouds – online tool for creating tag clouds about anything…

The New York Times reports on a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism which shows that proliferating media does not equal proliferating news. Shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise, I suppose.

Steve Rubel postulates that AOL is about to relaunch Netscape.com as a kind of Digg 2.0

For when you want to make it official.

BoardTracker.com is a new search engine for forums which even includes a tag cloud interface and graphing facilities similar to Technorati. It says it is currently tracking over 18m threads.

A new research project from Yahoo! – ZoneTag – is offering to allow two-click uploading of photos from cameraphones which are then automatically tagged on Flickr with geo-tags based on the nearest phone mast. Sadly, the prototype is only available in the US currently.

Steve Rubel on Bloginfluence, a site which aims massage your blog ego (or blego[!]) by aggregating all sorts of indications of just how important you are in the blogosphere.

Social bookmarking for shoppaholics.

If you have been downloading RSS for a while chances are you are now awash with information. So Feed Rinse has come along with a solution – add some key words and they will filter your feeds and let you subscribe to a new feed with only those posts that relate to the key words. Had to happen, I suppose.

Update: if you want the human version of this, Kent Newsome has just taken all of Robert Scobles’ 800 or so feeds and reviewed them all to come up with his list of the ones he likes the best.

Another everything you always wanted to know about RSS but were afraid to ask posts.