I just spotted this group on Facebook - people committing to change their Facebook status to “is Sorry” on 13 Feb. Just thought I’d pass it along (I think it’s a great action - but also a great cause).

Treehugger was recently bought, and today I noticed graphic, animated advertisements in their RSS feed. Not. Happy. Jan! The animation is incredibly annoying, especially because it’s animated, and it’s the same ad in a number of posts.

I hope they come to their senses and give me my clean, ad-free RSS reader back. I post links to Treehugger and visit the site all the time - they can get their eyeballs there, not in my RSS reader.

Update: Seems the ads have disappeared again. Perhaps just a glitch in Feedburner or something?

Update 2:Nup - they’re back. V. annoying… And to make it worse, the same ad appears over and over and over again and are completely irrelevant to the content. Meh…

Damian recently launched Sydney Cyclist - a place where those of us who ride and Sydney can get together and chat. I’ve joined (though not been as active as I’d like due to work and life commitments this week). But I’ll hopefully get some time to play on the weekend…

(For the techies: it’s built using Ning and Damian seems to be enjoying the process so far.)

Marc has an interesting take on Microsoft’s investment in Facebook.

A friend of mine one a local karaoke comp last night, and at the end of the night the son of one of the contestants clocked him one, sending him to the emergency room to be mended.

So what’s a man to do? Start a Facebook group of course: Karaoke the new contact sport!!!!. A place to share pictures and stories of karaoke misadventure…

Spotted this on Facebook today - a group called “Leggings aren’t fucking pants, so stop wearing them with your hoodie.”

Priceless…

Update: This has to be a close runner up - it’s offensive, but if you’re on Facebook, check it out…

Blog action day:

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment.

Let’s hope I remember to blog on that day - chances are it’ll be on topic if I do

Oh - they ask the question “what would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day?” I’ll take a (cynical) punt - not much except a bunch of bloggers feeling good about themselves. Not that that’s such a bad thing :p

The Guardian’s Kevin Anderson writes about the intersection of blogging and traditional journalism: Blogs to you. Nice to have a journo not sink the boot in for a change…

Seems I’m ranked 401 in a list of Aussie blogs… I think “404″ would be most appropriate of late (given my lack of posting) - that’s the error code for “Page not found” for those non-geeks amongst us.

A few weeks back usability “guru” Jacob Nielson posted on his Alertbox pulpit his views about blogging. At the time I didn’t have time to respond, except to Twitter some snarky remark about Jacob not really getting social media.

Thankfully, Scott Rosenberg posted a much more useful response.