Kevin: Stowe Boyd looks at a Pew Internet & American Life study that shows how widespread tagging has become. The study also looks at who is tagging.

Kevin: How to use Google to find out who is linking to you.

Kevin: Amy Gahran calls on the Philadelphia Inquirer not to kill it’s venerable blog Blinq because it will be throwing away a golden opportunity and a golden community. I had to give up my Washington blog for the BBC after the US elections in 2004. What a

Kevin: Jeff Jarvis calls red herring on a number of arguments put forward by Big Media folks such as cuts will mean cutbacks in reporting. Skewers the media on their pack reporting

Suw: Great little video that sums up Web 2.0 in a nutshell.

Suw: Doesn’t sound like WeMedia was any better this year than last.

Suw: De Montfort University and Penguin put up a wiki for the collaborative writing of a novel. Or three. Seems to be an open invitation to trolls, but the proof of the pudding will be in the writing. I can’t say that I’m hopeful.

Suw: Nice bit of stats, there, and we all know I can’t resist some stats. Even if they are web stats and therefore open to interpretation.

Suw: The whole article, via the ‘print’ page.

Suw: A study “documents what’s been going on in the U.S. labor market over the past six years, since January 2001. It provides an eye-opening account of what happens when business, and in particular media, moves from the physical to the virtual world.”

Suw: Beautiful little site with some very touching, fun and interesting videos, proving that video doesn’t have to be TV. Really nice interface too.

Kevin: Wow, wow and wow. Yahoo’s new Pipes pre-fab mashup service. Jon Udell speaking of a vision of the web as ‘data sources’ that could be re-used. But can news organisations think laterally enough to understand how this applies to them?

Kevin: Josh Hallett writes: “Another attendee, Mike Orren with Pegasus News just stated, “There is still this notion that we speak, then they converse.” We, being media, they being the readers.”

Suw: Really interesting analysis of Bill Gates’ little outburst the other day.

Kevin: Really great insights from some great minds in mixing community and media.

Kevin: Read/Write web looks at MSM sites use of web 2.0 services

Kevin: Martin and I know that this won’t be the last word in this argument, but I might just students and all the PR companies that are contacting me now to this post.

I have no problems with marketing companies using blogs to promote their films, but ffs, get the terminology right. What you are calling comments are posts!

Suw: Really very good. I think I might start making clients watch this.

Suw: Really useful tip on maintaining more than one Del.icio.us account.

Suw: Gates says “Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.” What planet is this man on?

Suw: MyBlogLog also switches to Yahoo! logins. Is this the beginning of a worrying trend? What about Upcoming and Del.icio.us? I hope Yahoo! aren’t thinking about trying to replicate the Google empire by simply acquiring lots of services then foisting the

Suw: Most recent user stats for Flickr I could find – 4.5m users. 5% of which is 225,000. That’s quite a few people still ‘Old Skool’.