Tom Coates on his obligation to his audience: "The next person who tries to tell me what I should and shouldn't be writing on my own site - which I produce for free and for which I ask nothing in exchange - is going to get a kick up the arse..." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Joel Biroco on blogging: "[It's a] bit like having a birdtable in the garden, I like the idea of it, but I know I'd forget to refill the peanut bag and put out the crumbs and all those sparrows would be lined up on the fence looking at me like I should have a guilty conscience." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Google Toolbar 2.0. Google Toolbar 2.0 I can't live without my Google toolbar for IE on the PC (Safari's built-in Google-search, while less functional, takes care of me on the Mac). This new version of the Google toolbar features popup blocking, autofill, and a "blog this" button. What other browser toolbars/gizmos make life easier for Joe Websurfer? [MetaFilter] 
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Affinity starts a new hosting service with integrated weblog capabilities. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Weblogs, personal voice and digital apprenticeship.

Dale Pike:

A weblog does not have to include a first person voice, but I think that it becomes much less when it does not. I believe that a weblog is a concept that has become much more than simply the tools used to post chronologically-ordered HTML entries. A weblog is a manifestation of an individual voice. There will always be a place for sterile, scholarly dissertations, but I guarantee I won't look forward to reading them on my lunch break. If I can listen to you, however, talk about something you're doing...something that is going on in your life, chances are I can learn from you. And that IS something I'll look forward to reading at lunch...

In other words, weblogging is about open digital apprenticeship.

[Mathemagenic] 
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Link collection:.

Feed on feeds (server side RSS reader) [via Brain off]

Word cleaner (to make clean HTML from Word-generated HTML) [via Blogging from the Barrio]

Teams That Span Time Zones Face New Work Rules by Bill Snyder [via Many-to-many] - worth reading if you are interested how to improve communication in virtual teams

Social Software and Social Capital and summary of the report [via Many-to-many]

Getting up to speed on wikis and Getting up to speed on wikis, part 2 - collections of wiki links by Jim McGee

[Mathemagenic] 
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Etching Echo.

Well, the name for the initiative led by Sam Ruby to create a new syndication format from scratch is ... [drumrolll] ... Echo!  Looks like they are going to use it as a brand of sort: Echo API, Echo Enabled, etc.  I proposed Wide Open Syndication (WOS-Up!) last night, but most people wanted to go with Echo.  Yeah, people will have a lot of fun Googling with 'Echo' as keyword, but then it is a sign of child-like innocence that I like so much in engineers.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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Cory Doctorow on BBC's radio 4 "Today Programme". BoingBoing co-editor Cory Doctorow, currently traveling in the UK, talked about blogs on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme yesterday morning. Listen (Real), Listen (un-Real, thanks Gerard), Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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