Today, I have mostly been reading:

K at Shankri-La has found a new site that might replace Google as his homepage and is a very cool way to start your searches. It’s called ‘Sputtr’ and with a name like that you’ll be unsurprised to learn it’s in ‘beta’ and has a very shiny ‘Web 2.0′ logo. Honestly, soon I’m going to start a site called ‘Shittr’ it’s logo will be a shiny PNG of …well you can guess, and it will feature every ‘beta’ company I can find. Anyway, the site is a way of grouping various search engines together in one place, thus optimising your searches-have a read of K’s post and see if it’s for you.

Josh of Time For Blogging has come up with an interesting challenge: What does your office or Workspace look like?, where he challenges us to post a photo of where we do our worst work. He appears to have taken a picture of my desk via an internet tube, and calls it his own. Hmm. Are you game? Shall we ‘fess up?

Ashish at TechSpot tells us that Blogg-Buzz is back with a splash, and that it’s time to rejoin and start buzzing. Ashish explains it much better than I can, but for those of you who missed it first time, Blogg-Buzz was designed to be a ‘Digg for bloggers’ - as you probably know, bloggers generally get a hard time on Digg, and are often buried in seconds, so a site that works in the same way, but encourages bloggers to submit can only be a good thing. I joined BB when it first started, and for a while it was good, and I got some nice traffic, and found some interesting blogs. But then it started to dry up & get infested with spammy sites, and I drifted away. These problems have been addressed (hopefully) and it may pay us all to get behind it and give it a go: It could well be mutually beneficial.

The unstoppable Scott at Savvy Affiliate, is currently putting up around 7000 posts a day, amongst which is an interesting article on writing timeless content,  where he raises some excellent points on writing for tomorrow, not just for today. He makes the very accurate case that what you publish today is far more likely to receive greater traffic via Google et al over the next 12 months, than it will do whilst on your front page. He also tags me for some new blogs to read-will this post do for now Scott?

Too much time spent reading, not enough writing….