After a week away (a trip to Nova Scotia) I find several things awaiting the effort to wrap-mind-around, amidst the familiar feeling that it's all moving a bit faster than I am, or can:
The impact of AJAX on web operations from bitcurrent
Structured Blogging (viz. D'Arcy Norman)
Alexa Web Crawl (viz. John Batelle's announcement and Read/Write Web entry)
...and Google Maps Creation Tools/Tutorials and News and blog-post roundup from Google Maps Mania