Notes from the presentations...

First of all the links:

http://www.urbanjacksonville.info | Local Blogging in Jacksonville

http://refreshjacksonville.org/ | Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of new media endeavors.

http://www.radrails.org/ | RadRails is a Ruby on Rails development tool (IDE)

http://www.rubyonrails.org/ | The home page of Ruby on Rails

http://empiricalpolk.com/ | Polk County Blog

http://www.podzinger.com/ | Search keywords in Podcasts

http://blogdigger.com/ | RSS Search Engine

http://www.foldera.com/ | Web 2.0 Personal Organization

http://www.spiderline.com/ | Custom search engine for websites (with custom synonym feature)

Other notes:

Technorati Tip: Find a tag that doesn't have many blogs associated with it and use that tag on your own blog to find your niche. The fewer the people that use that tag, the more likely someone is to find your blog when people search for that tag.

"Next big thing" Tip: Find a person that is important in any given industry and use RSS feeds to track what they're looking at/writing about. Examples: Use Del.ico.us to see what an investor/CEO is looking at to see what he's researching/might be investing in soon.

DOM Scripting book: Amazon link to the book