Touchstone is a new “attention management system” which uses a visual interface to tune RSS feeds to match what you are really interested in. At least, that’s the promise – the site is in “private Alpha” so you have to apply for an invitation to try it out.

Now it’s the Web 2.0 Awards. 300 websites in 38 categories – plus interviews with 21 founders.

A new free blogging platform called Eponym has launched. It is apparently very simple and straightforward to use.

Techcrunch roadtests a crop of online feed readers.

Useful list of all the Digg-style applications out there – Consensus Web Filters, as Kevin Kelly calls them.

John Battelle spotted that Google’s AdWords is now offering a demographic targeting feature supplied by Comscore. Demographic site targeting, he points out, will be a big new battleground among the search majors.

Wired founder Kevin Kelly blogs about what he calls “Consensus Web Filters” – the new sites like Digg and Reddit which list stories according to how many people are prepared to endorse them. He is a great fan.

Techcrunch publishes what it says are screenshots of a new Google reputation system to rival that of Ebay. It looks like Google’s efforts in the commerce space are hotting up.

Google has bought SketchUp, a company which makes a program which allows people create simple 3D diagrams of buildings and then, for instance, place them on Google Earth.

The new “Comment is Free” site from the Guardian has started blogging the daily news meetings.