This and that -
The upside down ternet - I Stumbled on this one which I thought was just freakin hilarious check out the upside down internet
 Social media and big business - As more and more web entities let the end user create the content ( and make them free money) Pingable asks, Is user generated content evil?
Buzz monitoring - Are u into reputation management or simply a social media hound (or narcissistic like me?) Andy Beal has a great list of 26 must have Buzz monitoring tools
Blogs sure suck - The other Andy Andy Beard makes this ranter proud with Why blogs Suck
Top Blogger monetization -There is an good post here about How the top bloggers display their ads with some percentages and numbers which were interesting. It shows what percentage of the real estate is used up by ad serving.
Bad Black Hat! - It's that time again to ask the question - Are Black Hats worthless shady criminals? You can also check out some of the ongoing interaction with this on Sphinn
Social Bookmarking sites - Lyndon had a nice mash-up list of Social Media goodiness in his post Social Bookmarking Lists
From the Search World -
 Universal search - A little late on this one from late September, but it seems Universal Search is coming to Microsofts Live and Microsoft also added SEM services to Office Live -- While were at it, Yahoo! Is playing with Universal search as well
Mine is still bigger than yours Live is saying their index is now 20 Billion pages, though last we heard Google was around 24B
. almost there Live .. er ...ahem
Keep it up!
MS Office goes online - Another key project down the road is integrating Office Live Workspaces with other "Live" products such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, so that people will be able to view Office attachments they get via e-mail or IM. Google currently allows Gmail users to open attachments in Google Docs.
 Yahoo! Makes us happier? - Compete was putting some theories out on Yahoo! Having better search fulfillment, which Rand had some thoughts on as did John Battelle and it even prompted theLisa to post about Blended Search.
Meta-description Tags - Too many folks seem to think that the meta-description tag is some type useful ranking mechanism whereas I am more inclined to think of it as a tool for conversions. The gang at Google WebMaster Central have some good advice to Improve snippets with meta-descriptions.
...and there we have it, unless I run into some late additions... until next time, play safe!
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