Want to know who’s linking to your blog (or any of your web sites)? Try Technorati’s Website URL Search at http://technorati.com/search/. Just type the address (URL) of your site, press enter and you’ll be shown a list of the other sites who have links to you. It’s absolutely necessary for the paranoid, and just plain fun for those who aren’t. After all, it’s nice to know who likes you, who really really likes you.

I tried doing a search for my personal blog and came up with seventeen sites, the most surprising of which were the blog of an 18-year-old student from UP (goodness, I hope all my swearing doesn’t corrupt him) and a blog written purely in Spanish (which I don’t speak– at all). See? Fun.

It won’t take much of your time to participate in Cameron Marlow‘s MIT Weblog Survey. I myself am curious about the citizens of the blogsphere. The people behind the survey will let all participants access the results.

Thanks to Anil Dash for the link. Now go forth, bloggists and bloggers, and make some science yourself.

Polaroid-o-nizer™

Here’s a site that lets you turn your digital pictures into something that looks like a polaroid. It’s great if you want to make your online album look more interesting.

Ever wondered about those small images that appear on your browser, right beside the URL of the site and also appear when you bookmark certain pages? (Mine is an image of an open eye, for instance.) Those are icons, and you too can have one of those for your site.
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Software Freedom Day Philippines will be this September. It’s just part of a vast worldwide conspiracy of IT people to help people gain access to good, free software. What could be better than that?

The following are the organizations involved:

• CPU
• PLUG
• Ubuntu LoCo
• UnPlug

I believe they’re still looking for volunteers and organizations to help them out. Please email rickjr@cp-union.org and include your organization and the names of two representatives with their contact numbers.