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.

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.