Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 10

Josh Bancroft writes “Twitter has become an integral part of my life. My friends there, who number in the hundreds, really are people I consider friends. I have real connections with each of them, even the ones I’ve not met yet ‘in real life.'”

Dawn Foster writes “The real message here is that trust has to be earned. Trust has to be earned for each new corporate blog and each individual blogger. Jeremiah Owyang put together an informal checklist to help you evaluate your current company blog. A great corporate blog can be a trusted source of information, but it takes real work and diligence to get to that point.”

Via the Calagator blog “2008 has seen a huge surge in events, new projects, and other interesting tech activity, and the Calagator team is happy to be a part of this, both as an ongoing software project, and something that facilitates our community meeting up and geeking out.”

Mike Rogoway writes “No immediate word from the company on how many Yahoos lost their jobs today in Hillsboro, but the twitterverse has an answer.”