(Bloglines - No self-important blogger, or blog consumer, should be without an account on Bloglines. This service -- even though it failed me once -- is one I'd pay for if it wasn't free. Seriously.

Gmail - Slap a search engine over your E-mail client, and create a sea-change in how cool kids think about electronic communication.

Flickr - My digital camera chews batteries too quickly for me to be much of a photo-guy, and my Treo takes crappy pictures, but what I've seen of Flickr, I really like. And, like all great web tools that aspire to bigger things, it comes with a rich API for building your own applications (and business propositions?) on top of it.

Pingomatic - The best way to announce the blogosphere -- the whole, stinkin' wide world of weblogs -- that you've just posted another story about your TiVo, your iPod, your dog, or why you think that it's Nader's fault that Dubya is still running the horror show.

del.icio.us - I jumped on this bandwagon a long time ago. It's such a great concept for webheads: social bookmarks, shared globally and available in the cloud, complete with a great API for building applications, if you hack like that.

iTunes Music Store - Volumes have been written about the revolution that iTunes represents. I concur.

Feedburner - I'm just waiting for these folks to come up with a pricing strategy, because I'll pay for all of the syndication and aggregation tools this service provides.

PayPal - The most sensible way to pay for things online, in my opinion.

PubSub - This one is too new to me to really comment on, but I found it to be very slick and full of potential going forward. Basically, you use PubSub to create "search agents" which will scour the blogosphere for you and return the results in neat little packages.

Technorati - The definitive way to find out exactly how few people even know that your weblog exists. Echo chamber? Indeed. Of course, this one but has a nice API, just like all the other web services that aspire to become big businesses one day.

Blogrolling.com - Honorable mention. )

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(If copyright law can deny access to contemporary information like this documentary, information critical to understanding what this country is really all about, then it makes me wonder how much historic (and important) information has been hidden from the public eye, never to be seen again, because of "the law," effectively a man-made barrier to enlightenment. In a propaganda culture lke ours, control of information is the whip lashing down across our collective back. Thanks Laosan. (b/w Na Han))

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