Dan Gillmor bows out of Bayosphere in Businessweek -- reactions from JD Lasica, Jonas Luster and Thomas Hawk. Blogger Tom Foremski says he's doing just fine, claiming to be more popular with PR folks than the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg. Hey, at least no one has had to resort to astroblogging (astroturfing + blogging, natch). John Paczkowski is afraid, very afraid about rumors that boo.com is back. "Best Headline in a While" award......

Some video to amuse you as you kill your Friday afternoon at the office: Schlomo Rabinowitz suggests what not to buy for your little pisher this holiday season, and Josh Wolf posts his footage of the latest anti-war protests. Speaking of motion pictures, somebody has paid Malcolm Gladwell $1 million for the movie rights to Blink. We can't believe it either. El Lefty Malo takes a look at the public cost of privately built......

We'd like this post to be a celebration of the work done by David Sifry and all our friends at Technorati, who recorded their billionth link tracked today. In 2002, David "Wanted to know when somebody said something about me," and eventually helped develop one of our favorite tools for searching the web in real time. Technorati helped change the conception of the web as the "world's biggest library" into something dynamic and relevant.......