A new tool for webmasters from Google: Sitemaps. The idea seems to be to provide a special xml file to search engines to help the index your site. Google also provides a Python script that helps you create a sitemap for your site.

The next step will be for content management systems to automatically generate these sitemaps. WordPress already has a plugin for this.

Planet Express is a clever variation of the Planet Planet feed agregator. Instead of generating static pages with all the collected items it is publishing them to a blog. Having a blong as the front end is great since you can benefit from all the features of a full featured blog: archives, comments, search, ...

Curretly Planet Express is at version 0.2. I may give it a try with the two Planet sites I am worki