Om Malik is reporting on how Meebo is being integrated in to Netvibes. 
Mike Arrington has left the Gillmor Gang because of Nick Carr. I've been listening for a few months and I've always enjoyed Arrington's contributions. Also, Jason Calacanis has been interesting in the last few weeks. Kent says it's a good thing. Nick Douglas has a giggle at it all.
Ask MeFi has a question about online bibliography management. I quite like CiteULike, but it's still an offline thing for me.
The Guardian don't seem to have included the most important part in their guide to acupuncture students - that there's a lot of spiritual bullshit that goes with this treatment.
Ratbag Radio Network, a Green Left political podcast site, is using Grazr. Grazr is ideally suited to political blogs and podcasts as it enables people to easily share their links and resources across sites - the magic of inclusion means that rapid self-organisation is possible. Just look at how quickly Dave's podcasting directory has been built in the last week. It would be really cool if prominent blogs from different ideological stripes. Top 10 Sources have a Red America and Blue America list. Imagine if these were comprehensive and sitting in a box on the sidebars of people on all the sides of the debate.
Mike Arrington has a post about "PornoTube". The Web 2.0 and RSS revolution is shaking up the world. I'm just looking though (purely journalistic) - the sign up asks for address, post code and country. Surely people joining a "Porn 2.0" site aren't going to be happy about putting in their street address?
A Grazr Opera 
Andrew Fluke from thirteenpennies.net has put together a Grazr panel for Opera and has blogged it here. Thanks, Andrew, that looks like a great tool!
If you like this, we'll have many, many more soon... 
The nanny has left, the replacement is on it's way
The Guardian is reporting that Tony Blair has said that nanny state health advice is coming to an end. Oh yeah?
He told a forum of 50 health workers and party activists in Nottingham that the government could not change people's behaviour without "a greater sense of social responsibility from the people selling things to us". For example, a social code on drinking could require much more health-conscious labelling and marketing of alcohol by producers, while licensees took a tougher and more socially-responsible line on drinkers' behaviour in pubs and clubs, he said.
So, it's a case of "we're crap at it, so let's force someone else to do it".
This now means that cigarette packets warning size will go up to 98%. There will be a space in the corner for the manufacturer logo in a four point font. And the warnings will be: "You're going to die, you stupid idiot. You're smoking even after being warned fifty thousand times by the government not to do it". Thankfully, the government have yet to try and force street dealers to label their products. "This skunk may make you more creative, less stressed and can cure rare forms of adrenal cancer. Stay away, citizens!"
Of course, this is doublespeak. If he thought that government had gone too far, he'd just back off and leave us all alone to eat, drink and smoke whatever we want.
But, if you can't ban it, the next best thing is to put stickers on it - 4x4 cars, iPods, phones, bottles of beer, chocolate, "convenience cheques", super-strength lagers and ciders and wifi. Presumably if Blair is serious about his push for personal responsibility, he'll tell these people to stuff it. But he won't, because he's a politician and politicians only do a handful of things well - gesture meaninglessly and take away our civil liberties. Oh, and war.
The field is open, pick a poppy
I've just registered the domain for my new site. It's going to be called opiumfield.com. Or rather opiumfield. Dan got "optimal", which is a bit snazzier, but mine is a bit, well, sleazier.
What's going to be on there? Well, firstly my blog. It'll be the new home for my blog using Dave's hopefully forthcoming local rendering tool.
I'm looking in to offering free or very low cost hosting for other current OPML blogs users, but I haven't quite thought about that bit.
What else? Well, there's going to be lots of OPML and Grazr powered toys.
And there'll be a fantastic service that will get OPML and Grazr in to more new users hands than we thought possible. That's on the hush hush though. You'll have to wait.
OPML is the new religion of the masses.
