Mrs Scoble, aka Maryam, writes on her Spaces blog 10 ways to write a killer blog.
All posts by Jim Muttram
Devlicio.us – Blogs for Microsofties
Devlicio.us is a blog site for developers who use Microsoft technologies.
Scrapblog
Scrapblog is another online photosharing site which some Web 2.0 drag and drop functionality.
Open Hack Day opens up
Yahoo! is opening up its Open Hack Day to all-comers, reports Robert Scoble. I heard about this annual event at d.construct a couple of weeks ago and it sounded like it would be a lot of fun if you were a programmer. Yahoo’s famous APIs will be on show.
Bringing democracy to web video
Democracy Player is an open source video player and platform for putting up videos on a site. Robert Scoble raves about it.
Happy Birthday podcasting
Dave Winer points out that podcasting is three this week. Seems like it’s been with us for ever.
Blogging Hong Kong
The only words you can read on this billboard in Hong Kong (if you don’t read Cantonese) are “Canon” “Yahoo” and “blog”. The international language of technology. 
Web 2.0 Winners and Losers
Wired News produces it’s own list of Web 2.0 winners and losers. Winners: Flickr, Odeo, Writely, del.icio.us and Netvibes. Losers: MySpace, Squidoo, Browsar, Fo.rtuito.us and Friendster.
Made in Switzerland
Time was when virtually all goods used in the West were “made in Hong Kong” (now, of course, it’s “made in China”).
In a supreme piece of irony this shower curtain hanging in a bath in a luxurious Hong Kong hotel was made in that bastion of low-cost manufacturing – Switzerland.
One in four youngsters read blogs
More from Charlene Li: Listen up marketers: 24% of Gen Yers read blogs. Referring to Forrester’s own demographic reserach she cautions that marketers should make future media consumption assumptions with great care. She notes at a quarter of Generation Y (18 to 26-year-olds) read blogs compared with only 7% of Young Boomers (41-50-year-olds) – the people who are probably making the decisions.