Gary Lawrence Murphy's critique of Echo turned interesting when he said "We're asking the wrong questions", and then started to describe "a distributed, human-edited blogsearch". I can imagine a few uses for something like that right now. It sounds like a good substrate for for the RSS based replacement for PapersInvited.com that I proposed a few days ago. It also sounds like just the thing for that "subversive, anti-JCP, pro open-source, customer confusing" community that I've been bandying about with Andy and Jason. And here's a big 8-) for anyone who decides they want to get miffed about any of the adjectives I used in the quoted part of that last sentence.