For the past few months I’ve been reviewing iPhone Apps here on Webomatica, and enjoying it immensely.

Well, Ross McKillop, a fellow blogger who authors Simplehelp.net noticed, and offered the chance to contribute regular iPhone App reviews at Switching To Mac, a website chock full of Mac news and helpful “how to” info. My first post is a review of the word game WordsWorth.

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For those of you who stuck with this blog through all of 2008, I’m sure you noticed it went through a transition as I slowed significantly on technology / Web 2.0 stuff, moving toward more entertainment. I hope to be more consistent in 2009, and am therefore presenting this preview of what’s already in the works for the new year.

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Rather bizarre Internet meme going around regarding a fellow who owed money and decided to pay it back by emailing a drawing of a spider. Read the email thread here.

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About a month and a half ago I wrote about feeling burnt out on blogging. Since then, I made some fairly drastic changes in how I approach this blog, namely:

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Seesmic, a startup that provides video comments to blogs, recently worked with Disqus to provide video comments to Disqus-enabled blogs. Sorry if that’s confusing, but the end result is this blog now has video comments enabled as a result. See below for an example.

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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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