• Users of social networking sites can now connect via the phone thanks to a new click-to-call app called Jaxtr. You can’t actually see the phone number that you’re calling but clicking a link will connect you to the cell phone of the person you’re trying to reach.
  • Thank you, Gartner, for throwing a stick of dynamite in the room by declaring that blogging will “peak” in 2007.
  • The head of the Media Bloggers Association wants to be able to give some training to bloggers in journalistic best practices in order for them to be credentialed. Great idea.
  • Just because there are some not nice things going on online does not mean you need to start leveling fines at everyday people over their blog content. The proposed legislation from Sen. John McCain is too draconian and it aimed at exactly the wrong people.
  • Research that looks at a variety of retailer data shows the Long Tail in action as search enables people to find the right product for them, no matter how narrow the niche.
  • ABC is doubling the amount of video content it supplies to Yahoo!. Of course this is totally unrelated to Amanda Congdon debuting her segment on ABC News, a debut that Rocketboom co-founder Andrew Baron says he’s none too thrilled with.
  • One in four links within searches for a brand name go to consumer-generated media. That’s kind of huge.
  • Neville Hobson rounds-up some of the discontent over the recently concluded Le Web 3 and the way it was seemingly taken over by French politicians.
  • Go listen to the “boozcast” with David Armano and Greg Verdino. It’s a hoot.
  • Speaking of David, don’t miss his round-up of people’s thoughts on the most significant take-away from 2006. Lots of smart people sounding, well, very smart.