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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So this blog just passed 100,000 spam comments trapped by Akismet. That’s a milestone of sorts. Over the months dealing with spam I’ve seen its nature change from time to time in efforts to get past all the defenses in place.

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Steven Hodson over at WinExtra asks the question, what do you do to waste time? To rejuvenate and avoid the dreaded blogger burn out? Seems like these days, I’m either working, blogging, or sleeping.

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I’ve had a reader survey up for a while now, and the results have been amusing. I’ll leave it up for a while longer if you haven’t had your say, yet. But based on the results so far, I can definitely project some general trends, and am already solidifying some plans for 2008.

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Just a friendly public service announcement. David Airey’s blog, which I’m a regular reader of, was recently hacked. In this case, someone logged into his GMail account and managed to transfer his domain name. Read all the details at David’s new location.

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Here’s a fun activity for the end of the year that I hope you’ll enjoy: I’m asking you, the Webomatica readers for guidance by filling out the short survey below.

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