It never fails – I get a good groove going with code and my posting goes to hell in a hand basket. Thankfully it’s a Friday and it was more of a make news out of anything type of day than anything else. On the plus side the next version of TwitBox is coming along great with a few people out there giving it a test run. On that note however here’s a few things that snagged my attention during my day.

Technorati To Launch Blogger Advertising Network :: TechCrunch – now this could be interesting. If they can come up with a system that is equal and blogger friendly to bloggers of all levels it might be worth looking into.

The Pressure to Perform :: Blog Herald – a good post by David Peralty where he shares the pressure that bloggers who are trying to make blogging a career can find themselves under.

my increasingly twitter’d world :: gapingvoid / Hugh MacLeod – for Hugh Twitter seems to have become the contact medium of the future – oh and his graphic of the Twitter bird in the post is free for us to use. Thanks Hugh – Rock On

Can Someone Explain Why Google’s Free Voicemail Offer Is Newsworthy? :: Techdirt – Mike Masnick nails it quite nicely in a post about Google / GrandCentral offer of free voicemail for the homeless. Nothing like getting PR brownie points for offering up something that wouldn’t even make a dent in the Google bottom line and is already a free service. Talk about an empty gesture.