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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