DayPop is another good engine to go to when looking for what bloggers are talking about on a specific topic. Here's a search for Social Software Symposium.

I also built a PubSub search, in addition to my searches on Feedster and Technorati. It'll be interesting to compare all of these services and see how they differ over the next few days (and, of course, to Google, MSN, and Yahoo).

So, here's the list of searches for "Social Software Symposium":

Technorati

Feedster

DayPop

Google -- I added the word Microsoft to searches on the bigger engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

MSN

Yahoo

Here's a "Stack" from PubSub.com. This is a cool feature if you want a list of links that discuss a specific topic:

4:08:34 PM    

Theworldvotes is a project offering a worldwide poll on the American presidential election in November. People from around the globe can register and signal their choice via the site, which is supported by a group of largely European organizations. Architecture is website, email list, and a comments page; a blog or wiki would be great.

(thanks to Toby!)

12:52:23 PM    

A new distribution stragegy for an album and a real first! A rock band says their new release - and all future releases - will only be available for purchase by text message - because CD prices are too high.

Rock legend Search will release its new album in a [base "]couple of months,[per thou] and fans needn[base ']t bother rushing to the record stores to get it: The Empire Album will be sold exclusively via SMS, reports TechCentral.

"The new service will be offered by music and video distribution company Global Movie & Music Catalogue on its MCat website, which was established last December. 

"Fans can only buy (our new album) via SMS," said the band[base ']s charismatic frontman Amy, who described SMS as an alternative music distribution channel. 

"This way, we can lower the cost and offer the album at a cheaper price, for only RM20.

Commenting on this article, Steve Procter, of itagg, says: "If that is going to happen in the UK and the CD is not listened to on the phone then what they plan is illegal - against FSA regulations.

12:51:33 PM