Peter Rojas (a freelance writer and co-founder of Gizmodo) just launched a new site: Engadget. From his introduction: Back in August of 2002 I helped found Gizmodo, the gadgets weblog. It was a labor of love, but never intended as more than a part-time freelance job. After nineteen months I’ve decided to take a risk and launch a new site that will let me do what I want: Blog about gadgets full-time. In partnership with The Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN), I’ve launched Engadget (www.engadget.com), where I’m already posting obsessively about everything exciting on gadgets and personal technology. For anyone who…
Robert Scoble hits some good points about blogging relationship networks — The truth is, my RSS News Aggregator is a far better “friends network” than Friendster or Orkut are. The problem is that it's hard to build a real friends network in blogs. Why? Cause you gotta do work. You've gotta read someone every day for a while. You've gotta blog and build up a relationship network. You've gotta link to them. You've gotta smooze with them at conferences and geek dinners. That's all hard. But Friendster, Orkut, and Linked In, all promise a shortcut. “Get 100 friends without doing…