Keeping up with the conversation.

Another really useful online service -- and it's free, so far. (Entry from TechCrunch edited)

CoComment upgrades, now worth using.

CoComent is a popular browser tool for tracking conversations in the comments sections of blogs. It catches the comments you’ve made around the web and comments made after yours. Most important is that CoComment will now track all comments made after yours - not just comments made by other CoComment users.

New player in the space Commentful does the same thing but appears to offer a simpler feature set for more casual use (30 item tracking limit, blinking notification of every new comment).

Another new feature is called “track this conversation” - enabling you to track comments on blog posts that you haven’t commented on yourself. Still another very cool new feature is the MetaConversation option, which lets you create a comment space tied to a page but off-site in order to leave comments about a page that doesn’t support commenting.

[TechCrunch]

1:45:55 PM    
  

Personal Gnowledge. Along with the new release (0.9.0) of Gnowsis, the Semantic Desktop tool, Leo Sauermann and his team have published a doc on PIMO, their approach to personal information management with the help of ontologies. I must confess to still not having had a close look at Gnowsis yet, and also of having had the occasional skeptical thought about some of the things they've been doing (XML-RPC, ew!). My first impressions of the PIMO doc were a bit like this, until i noticed one particular thing I believe they've got [Raw]
5:24:36 PM    
  

Big names weigh in on Boston Globe article.

Blogging and Careers. Some folks are talking about the Boston Globe article on blogging being essential to a good career.

... the "challenges" of blogging are also touched on.  I'd add that another downside is information leakage.  Sometimes, personal info you don't intend to share gets inferred, shared, or found and known to others in awkward manners. 

[Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger]
4:44:58 PM    
  

Boston Globe says blogging is good.

(In case you needed any validation) 

The media figured out Blogs 'essential' to a good career (Boston Globe). "A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. 

Link:   http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/04…

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[tech.memeorandum]
10:11:57 AM    
  

Let's do BloggerCon IV in San Francisco, the week of June 19. If you have office space we can use in San Francisco's business district or South of Market, please post a comment, or send an email. I'm thinking about a distributed multi-track conference over two days (Friday and Saturday?), covering a very wide range of interests to bloggers, podcasters, journalists, broadcasters, academics, librarians, programmers, business people, entrepreneurs, investors, retirees and students, and everyone else. An all-inclusive, no invitation required, $0, everyone welcome, free-for-all unconference of idea sharing and whoopee-making! [Scripting News]
11:19:26 PM    
  

Ray Ozzie: Really Simple Sharing.

Ray Ozzie on Really Simple Sharing:. Important to note that Microsoft has released the draft specification under a Creative Commons License.

[elearnspace]
3:18:42 PM    
  
Wikipages for Drupal.

I got tired of the fact that Drupal requires the use of a permissions module to implement a basic wiki. Thus, wikipage.module. Using the directions in How to create your own simple node type (from story node), I used the story module in 4.6.3 to create a new module with an additional access control permission: "edit all wikipages." Sure would be nice if we could just add this permission for the page module in Drupal core.

[cyberdash - cyberteacher cyberculture cyberlearner]
2:49:00 PM    
  

Talk Back To The Web With Flock, The Social Browser. If you are an early adopter, one of those like me who likes to try and experiment as early as possible with these fascinating new media technologies, you are already probably familiar with Flock, the social browser built on top...... [Online Collaboration :: Robin Good's Latest News]
10:11:23 AM    
  

More uses for del.icio.us. Sure, social bookmarking is the bread and butter of del.icio.us. But how you use del.icio.us is totally up to you to decide. Del.icio.us has a few suggestions of their own for how else you might... [Lifehacker]
4:40:46 PM    
  
Optimize your site with Google Sitemap. Google Sitemaps has just added a whole bunch of cool Google statistics for your verified web page. With Google Sitemaps you get: Statistics about your site and information about URLs we had trouble... [Lifehacker]
4:40:03 PM    
  
Get high security passwords from Perfect Passwords. Lock down your wireless network with near-bulletproof passwords provided by web app Perfect Passwords. Every time this page is displayed, our server generates a unique set of custom, high quality,... [Lifehacker]
4:39:20 PM    
  
Wikipedia's big list of open source software. If you're a fan of open source (who isn't?!), you'd do well to check out Wikipedia's giant list of open source software packages. Wikipedia has organized an exhaustive list of free, open source... [Lifehacker]
4:38:58 PM    
  
10 ideas for your next blog post. Are you a blogger with writer's block? The Performancing blog has 10 great post ideas to help you get started on your next post. Ever get writer's block? 'Course you do, we all do at one time. Have... [Lifehacker]
4:38:29 PM    
  
Robin Good's New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic n. 26.

Here is Robin Good’s weekly basket of new media resources, software and articles that I would like to share with you. They are all powerful digital weapons for participating in the user-driven publishing revolution Robin is chronicling. Feel free to test, download and freely use any of the little gems listed here below. Personalized start page and content aggregator service Music software to record, store and connect online Pro search service for Usenet-based multimedia content…

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4:38:00 PM    
  
Hyper-Contextual Search Results with Swicki. Eurekster’s Swicki search service officially launches later today (November 16, 2005). Eurekster, a twenty person company located in San Francisco and New Zealand, has a profitable business (called Search Publisher) that provides customized search results to a number of large websites. Steven Marder, Eurekster’s CEO, tells me Eurekster’s current products are generating 25+ million monthly [...] [TechCrunch]
4:36:47 PM    
  
PodCast Directories.

You can find the links to these podcast directories by doing a search for them on your favorite search engine.

Podcast Alley: podcasts by topic, name or ranking
Audio.Weblogs.com: Last 100 podcasts made/updated
Podcast.net: Podcast directory (organized like Yahoo.com)
Odeo: A place to find new podcasts or create your own
iPodder.org: Podcast Directory – categorized directory of podcasts
Podcast Central: Podcast RSS feeds
Potkast: Podcast search engine
The New, New Podcast Review: Reviews of podcasts
DownloadRadio.org: Peer to peer (P2P) network of podcasts
PodcastDirectory.com:  International podcasts
New Time Radio: Podcasts and radio shows
Podcast SA: Podcasting in South Africa
Loomia: Podcast/videocast search engine
Podcasting Station: Podcast directory arranged like Yahoo.com
Podsafe Music Network: Music podcasts
Podcast Shuffle: A podcast shuffle & directory
My Podcast Center: Directory of podcasts and podcasting web sites
Podscope: Podcast search engine
Yahoo! Podcasts: Find & subscribe to podcasts
Teen Podcaster’s Network: Podcasts created by teenagers
Podfeed.net: Find or share your own podcasts
Women in Podcasting: List of podcasts hosted/cohosted by women

[PodCast Radio Show: PodCast Marketing]
4:33:35 PM    
  
OPML revisited. Dave Winer’s reviewing his OPML outliner format, a new spec is mentioned, and asking for use cases for extension mechanisms with XML namespaces in mind. I’m not exactly what you’d call a fan of OPML, but people are using it for feedlists, and there’s been talk of it being used ... [Raw]
4:32:50 PM