I’m no longer on Facebook but I know there are some bloggers who spend a lot of time cultivating their zombies and superwalls. Six Apart just launched a free FaceBook app called Blog It that may make your blogging more efficient. Basically, it lets you write posts and update your blogs while in Facebook.

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Time for a change of focus for Webomatica.

Lately, I find myself agreeing with “technology avoidance” articles like Scoble turning off the Internet, Hugh quitting Twitter, Mark Evans declaring RSS feed bankruptcy, ignoring TechMeme and Mashable, and tech bloggers overwhelmed by stress.

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Tony Hung over at Deep Jive Interests is doing some extremely worthwhile “investigative blogging” and uncovering some sinister blog hacking that essentially turns your blog (specifically, WordPress installs) into a spam machine. It’s “sinister” because the hackers leave your blog be, so you continue posting as you normally would, unawares that you’re displaying spammy ads and link juice to unworthy sites.

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This past weekend I had the opportunity to record a podcast with the L33t Tech News “gang.”

The Reddit L33t Tech experiment is a sub-Reddit where several of us self-designated “B-list” bloggers submit links to cool tech stories found during satiation of our feed reader addictions. That L33t sub-reddit recently passed 1,000 subscribers.

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I’m writing this post in the new version of WordPress, 2.5. It’s a major upgrade, especially in regards to the user interface on the back end.

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After some consideration I decided to throw caution to the wind install Disqus on this blog. It’s a comment management service spread across blogs.

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Well, this is a first. Somehow I won “comment of the day” over at ReadWriteWeb. I wrote a post on Oprah’s influence on podcasts and technology, and the trackback to ReadWrite Web was a winning entry.

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Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed an increasing amount of references to this blog by my real name - Jason Kaneshiro. Most likely this is due to my unintentional use of my real name at FriendFeed and to a lesser degree, the other blog I’m writing for, the Blog Herald.

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Two stories are currently attracting attention on Techmeme: rumors of a Digg sale, and some startup tips from Jason Calacanis. Both are rising on Techmeme in a rather amusing way, in which there’s a lesson about blogging in general: we may all benefit from slowing the heck down and not being in such a flurried rush to dash off a post and hit “publish.”

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End of the month, another quick blog update. Traffic slowed down a tad, due to a shorter month, no MacWorld, and the host server going down. Still ended with about 40K uniques.

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