I have decided to deprecate the use of Newsvine as the clippings service on rickeyre.com from 1 July 2010. Any new clippings that I bookmark from that date will be held on delicious.

The reasons include delicious' greater flexibility, configurability, wider user base, and (important) the existence of an API. Delicious is owned these days by Yahoo!, while Newsvine is part the new-media extension of old-media behemoths NBC and the Washington Post.

I'm continuing to migrate my cricket site into my new Drupal-powered content management system. This will take a while as I do this in my spare time (eg, rainy Saturday mornings).

For cricket afficionados, cricket.rickeyre.com will continue to be your starting point for all things cricket. I've added a Technorati-driven list of recent posts on the blogosphere with the tags "ashes" and "cricket" as a means of following discussion of the Ashes over the coming months.

I'm not sure at the moment how much effort I will be able to devote to commenting on the Ashes. I really enjoyed doing my bloggage of the 2005 series, and I'd love to get into it again.

I'm also eager to hear your feedback on my blog and other cricket stuff. If I reach the conclusion that I'm talking to myself then I'll probably start thinking about winding it up.

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