It looks like they've improved FFXI's Signet function. Groups sized 2-5 get a slight EXP bonus with Signet and you don't lose TP while resting if one has Signet. There's a few other changes too. 
I've been so slack with my blog reading that I'm only catching up with stuff from weeks ago. Trusted Places have recently got £500k in angel funding. Congrats guys. Sorry I didn't see that earlier. I also didn't see that Vecosys had a discussion and link to GetSemantic recently. Thanks guys. Another lame duck excuse: I've changed my RSS reader a lot recently, and I may have got the OPML files messed up in the process.
Valleywag weighs in with some dressing advice for - ahem - "Ubergeeks". I'm not sure whether I fall in to that category, although I did wake up this morning with a very large Java book looming precariously close to my head, so I suspect I might.
Lee on Bush and the VA: "Our soldiers are sure as hell sacrificing everything they have for us, I think that adding a few billion to upgrade the VA hospital system is the least we can do to honor them, especially considering the trillions of dollars that this administration has pissed away on absolutely nothing."
The Lancaster New Era: "Lancaster County residents of whatever political view - conservative, moderate or liberals - deserve intelligent discussion of issues. Ann Coulter no longer provides that." They seem to be deluded in to thinking that Coulter ever did provide intelligent discussion of issues.
Andrew Sullivan: "Coulter is central to a core element of the conservative movement today."
Attention 
Tonight, I will be at Beers and Innovation 8, which is discussing attention. It's only £15 to attend - which means I have so far managed to get in to March without breaking my new years resolution of spending more than £20 for a ticket to a tech event.
I've just installed the Attention Trust tracker in Firefox, which is churning out (not particularly well-formed) XML of everything I browse (there is a button to toggle if I don't want it to record my clickstream).
It would be trivially easy to write an attention tracker which would turn this XML file in to RSS, OPML, RDF etc. I'm excited by the new features in XSLT 2.0 that allow grouping (xsl:for-each-group).
An application I'm thinking of building would be called my "attention bundler". What it would do is take everything I've been browsing, pull other data that I've been producing (last.fm, del.icio.us, Flickr, my blog etc.), mix it all up, produce some interesting results and upload them. It'd be a desktop application - perhaps just a button on my Dock which I could hit from time to time and all sorts of magic would happen.
Is this too geeky? Of course. But that's one way in which we can research how others can use it. We piece together geeky stuff, then test it out, and if we like it, make user-friendly versions of it.
