Google AdSense, your blogs & the EFF. Lawrence Lessig asked us all in his OSCON 2002 speech, "What have we done?" The new Google AdSense campaign has made a lot of ripples throughout the blogging world. Let me make a proposal. If you feel so inclined to ad GoogleAds to your personal or hobby weblog why not send the cash to the Electronic Frontier Foundation [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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My conversation with Mr. Safe. Mr. Safe: Hey, I've been reading about that RSS thing you were telling me about. It was mentioned recently in the New York Times, and also the Wall Street Journal. I'm thinking maybe it's a safe choice after all. ... [Jon's Radio]

If you ask me (as an outside observer), this piece says it all. Right on the button, John.

 
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Google AdSense:. Aaron Swartz describes a new Google program in which you place some HTML on your site which causes your readers' browser to request ads from Google. Google, having analyzed your site, sends ads it thinks are particularly relevant to your content. In return for letting Google do this on your site, you get paid 50 cents every time one of your readers clicks on an ad. If you have a weblog or other website and are curious as to what ads Google would think are relevant to your content, Swartz has a gadget on his site that will tell you.

Swartz says that he made $100 from the program in one day and argues that this system might make small 'labor of love' weblogs viable. Nota bene: I won't be implementing this system. This labor of love is a freebie for you. [Follow Me Here...] 
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"Google Weblog": Try Before You Sell: Want to see what ads AdSense thinks are relevant to your page? Just enter its URL: [Daypop Top 40] 
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More gifts; if you share, you learn.

Dropping Names, or, Who said that?.

Lilia Efimova picks up on something I too had read over at David Buchan's Thought?Horizon referring to a wonderful metafor Jim McGee used:

There's an old story that I've heard described as a Russion proverb. It says that if each one of us takes care of sweeping the sidewalk in front of our own home, we won't need streetsweepers. It's worth thinking about how that might apply to the world of knowledge work, both on the level of being an individual knowledge worker yourself and on the level of helping make the other knowledge workers that surround you more effective.

As Lilia is Russian, and the mention of a Russian proverb triggers her curiousity, she starts a search for the story and comes up with Tolstoy as a source. (An act Jim McGee appreciates as a gift, which is a beautiful posting in itself)

In the comment section Jay Cross offers that he's pretty sure it's something Goethe wrote.

My first thought on reading the story was "that could be something written by Vondel", one of the icons of Dutch literature. Sweeping the sidewalk in front of your house is a picture that reminds of the Golden Era which Simon Schama has written so eloquently and amusingly about in his "Embarassment of Riches". It sounds so cliche-fittingly Dutch, you know, it just has to be by Vondel.

Now how come we try and attribute things that apparently have a familiar ring to it to icons of our cultural background or context? Is it to reinforce the importance of what we're saying with names that carry authority? Or is it laziness, "let's attribute it to someone who might have written anything, saves me the time to look it up". Or even to get away with talking in clichés?

And do we bloggers do the same? If there is anything that pops up in your mind on the way we experience internet, do you think "ah, I probably read that over at David Weinberger's"? Are the A-listers our icons of blogospheric culture, whom we can attribute the stuff to we don't want to fact-check too closely ourselves, but do want people to listen to? Are we building up the reputation of A-listers, to be able to off-load all that general stuff, so we can forget about it ourselves, as Gary L. Murphy suggested recently (and which is backed I think by how Daniel C. Dennett views the evolution of our minds)?

So who did write that story about sweeping the sidewalk in front of your house?

Tolstoy?	Vondel?	Goethe?

Will the real author please stand up? I bet it is indeed Tolstoy, I trust Lilia on her word. Or is that just my way of escaping fact-checking it myself?

[Ton's Interdependent Thoughts]

A continuation of a little snowball I started rolling a few weeks back. Courtesy of Ton I learn still more new and interesting things about the little proverb I had picked up along the way.

This little blog-thread illustrates a couple of important points. First it's a prime counter-example to offer to those who say knowledge management can't work because people won't share. Ton. David, Lilia, and I have never met face to face but they've become new colleagues in my worldwide network of people I trust. Sharing begets sharing. It only takes a few seeds planted to start the sharing. If you happen to be in an organization that has no one willing to take this kind of small risk, you've got deeper problems than I want to deal with.

I suspect that the real reason behind people raising the sharing myth is not organizational resistance. It's fear of looking stupid; not in front of your peers, but in front of whoever taught your English class back in primary school. That gets to the second point this exchange illustrates. I didn't worry about whether I had everything right when I posted the story that got this all started. I made the point I wanted to make and I fessed up to my ignorance at the same time. What I got in return for that tiny bit of risk was the opportunity to learn some neat new stuff and a couple of more strands linking me into the web that links people together. Seems like an awful big return for a tiny little risk.

[McGee's Musings] 
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Blog Post Analysis [BlogStreet] 
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Artima Creates Buzz
People are using RSS more and more to guide them to interesting HTML pages. Because readers are changing the way they relate to websites, website owners need to change they way they relate to their readers. Find out how one website, Artima.com, has attempted to catch and ride the RSS wave. And if you have a weblog, find out how you can "Join the Buzz." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Blog voices settling the wilderness of politics.

Lance Knobel has posted a very interesting piece at the BloggerCon 2003 Weblog about Tom Watson, blogging MP. A sample:

Why did Tom start his weblog? "I wanted to develop new forms of political participation, particularly with communities that weren't really that involved in politics," he says. Tom says that when he started he had a "vanity website: a big photo of me, with details of my surgery [constituency office] hours". He quickly recognised that he needed something different.

He'd never even heard of weblogs, but Tom did some searching on the Web for something that would satisfy his needs. "I wanted to convey information very quickly and do it myself. I wanted to be relevant." He found weblogs.

"For me, it was a huge risk," he says. "I've taken a few hits in diary columns and most of the people in Parliament just don't get it. But the community I was talking to knew what I was on about and understand." Tom spends an average of one hour a day on his weblog, which he admits is "a big commitment for an MP".

Although he didn't start his weblog for either his constituents or the media, both are beginning to take an interest. A few of Tom's postings have developed into news stories in the national press, and he says some of his constituents now read the site.

However, it isn't about electoral advantage. "If I get half a dozen additional votes at the next election because of my blog, I'll be surprised," he says. "It's not a campaign tool. It's a political ideas tool."

For the first time I'm starting to believe we are reaching the implementation stage of Cluetrain in politics: The point where voice and authenticity matter more than any campaign strategy. When serving finally means more than campaigning. When sharing ideas in a place where they grow and change matters more than calculated, and usually intransigent, positions.

I like it.

[The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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Blogstreet Takes Content Management to a New Level.
Blogger News
The basic unit on which Google and most every search engine is based is the "webpage". Commonly this is a single HTML unit that is deemed to be similar to every other webpage. Weblogs on the other hand are different; the basic unit of a weblog is a microdocument normally called a "post". Microdoc News adds to the blogosphere story which is already taking shape on the web that started with the Blogstreet "Blog Post Analysis". Blogstreet have taken content management to a new level. [Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocHeadlines] 
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Blog Counting and Bloggership.
Blogger News
Phil Wolff at Blogcount tells us there are 3 million blogs worldwide. So far, BlogCensus has found only 480k of them while Technorati has now crawled 402k of them. What does this mean? Have BlogCount, BlogCensus and Technorati found the same ones and if so, are they really blogs? [Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocHeadlines] 
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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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Fixing RSS's public-relations problem. Yesterday I spoke with two acquaintances, both of whom have decades-long track records in the high-tech biz, and neither of whom has ever used an RSS newsreader. When I mentioned RSS as an alternative to mailing lists, both said the same thing: "But I don't have time to visit 30 different websites in order to find things out." Of course, that is exactly the problem that RSS solves. And has been solving, for me, since 1999. ... [Jon's Radio] 
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Ryan Pitts: "Why do each of us read our own list of bloggers? Because they point us in interesting directions and they filter information... We test our preconceptions against theirs, and come out better informed." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging]

I'll second that. Thank you all! 
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Rafat Ali breaks the story that there's been an acquisition in blog media: "Andy Bourland is back... he has scooped up two media properties: Adventive, the family of business-oriented discussion groups; and MarketingFix, Rick Bruner and the gang's group-blog on online marketing." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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William Gibson: "In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner." [Scripting News] 
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What are we doing here?.

So we have Emerson, Franklin and Pepys among the ancestors of bloggers.

Now Kevin reminds me this morning that Marcus Aurelius contributed some early DNA. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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A welcome present from Unbound Spiral.

RSS Feed Full Posts.

A couple of reminders recently to provide readers with what they really want.  RSS Feeds that contain the full post.  It's now done - isn't choice wonderful?  You can choose.  If you desire a full post rather than the excerpt, please change your subscription to:

Full Posts (XML) http://www.henshall.com/blog/index2.rdf 

Why is it that MT's default setting is excerpts?

Makes me think about my own newreader.  I wish I could toggle between full and excerpts.  Even better scan quickly on excepts and then toggle to full posts.  Early on I tried AmphetaDesk and currently just use the Radio one.  Except I get posts that blow its formating from time to time.  Is there a newreader that can improve my experience?  Is there one I can install on my server? That is also easy to do?How does a group go collective newsreading?  A my, yours, ours subscription file? Are there tools mapping subscriptions in this format? 

[Unbound Spiral]

Of course, I updated my subscription list right away. I've been tracking Stuart's excellent observations on the world of knowledge work for a while now. With full feeds it will be that much easier.

Stuart does raise some important points about some needed evolution in RSS feed readers. One tool that I have added to the mix that helps in my Radio environment is Mikel Maron's MyRadio tool. It lets me do some of the things Stuart asks for. [McGee's Musings 
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Last semester, Diane Cabell, a director at Berkman, and a group of law school students, drafted a terms of use and privacy policy for weblog hosting at Harvard Law. It was our intention to create a template that other universities, schools and libraries could use, and a user-friendly agreement that non-technical people (like me!) could understand. Here's a place for comments and questions. After we got through this long process, Diane said "You're thinking like a lawyer now!" I'm sure she meant that as a compliment. [Scripting News] 
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Feed Money Fast.

Tim is on a roll today.  His "MakeMoneyFast" post (actually the title is "$$$$!"), he writes about his experiment with Google's new AdSense program.  He made almost $16 in two days.  Cool.  AdSense reveals what Google is thinking with its Blogger.com acquisition.

Only problem is that popularity of RSS feed usage is on the upswing and will eventually lead to majority of blog news being consumed via news aggregators.  This means Google will have to get into the news aggregator business (?) eventually.  Sure, they can do this with from the server side, but to cover all the bases, Google will need a client-side aggregator as well.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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Blogtracker. Interface zu weblogs.com. Alternative From des Blogrolling. [thomas n. burg | randgänge] 
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Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial. via HITORMISS.ORG: What is TrackBack? Basically, it's a way of recording who has linked to your posts and notifying others that you've linked to them (invented by the folks from Moveable Type). [Channel 'trackback'] 
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stop pinging me you bugger!. via Virulent Meme: How Trackback Really Works: I’ve been about as befuddled as anyone else about this crazy trackback thingy, and these explanations (one, two, three) haven’t really helped. Still, in my attempts to figure out exactly what the hell is going on, I finally thought of an analogy that sort of nearly gets there. [Channel 'trackback'] 
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Cool new Feautre on BlogDigger - LinkSearch www.blogdigger.com. via BlogDigger Development Blog: What can we do with this? I am providing a link for each search result returned to a linkSearch URL that will get all the posts that link to the current post. So basically, you are getting all the posts that refer to the post you are interested in. It is sort of like TrackBack, except it is over all of the blogs that BlogDigger indexes. Kind of like TrackBack on speed. [Channel 'trackback'] 
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Rethinking the Application of Trackback. via Big Damn Heroes (Tech): I love Trackback... the Trotts hit a home run when they came up with it. But as we've discussed in the past, the current implementations leave much to be desired. There's little understanding of what TB is, debates over acceptable use, and concerns abo... [Channel 'trackback'] 
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Blog Spambot?.

Recently, I have been getting spams with subject lines containing words I have used in my blog posts.  These spams arrive within hours of a blog posting.  If this is being done by a spambot, it seems to be using words I used to retrieve or build a short sentence.  For example, within an hour of posting "Just for Fun", I received a spam with "What are you doing for fun?" as subject.  Are other bloggers seeing this sort of spams also?

[Don Park's Blog] 
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JavaBlogs.

Adina on the JavaBlogs and Java.net communities:

...The discussion on the Java.net and JavaBlogs shows some classic tensions between a commercial software vendor, which wants to support a community of developers, and developer community, who self-organize, and want support from the commercial vendors.

It will be interesting to see how the communities evolve. Will there be syndication and federation techniques that bridge communities in different locations, or will developers choose affiliations?

Meanwhile, this is a strong sign of commercial interest in the value of weblog and wiki tools in supporting developer communities.

As with the hybrids between independent blogging and traditional journalism, the interesting question isn't the "purity" of any model. It's the process of evolution at work creating new variants. The most compelling new variants will survive.

[via BookBlog]

Community bridging already occurs through RSS and Federation.  Java.net RSS feeds are easily added to JavaBlogs.  Sure, more can be done.  But that's the beauty of these simple blog protocols, they open communities.  You wouldn't have this level of discussion and interchange between communities on a Bulletin Board based community.

[Ross Mayfield: On Blogging] 
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The Live Web Lives.

Minding Mark's Words about GlobeAlive...

Roland Tanglao: GlobeAlive + Blogosphere + software = goodness.

Mark Carey at Web Dawn: GlobeAlive as a pillar of the Blog community.

Clay Shirky at Corante's Social Software blog: Mark Carey Explains GlobeAlive.

Something going on there.

[The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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Polibloggery.

Lance points to a fine poliblog, by an actual pol, in his own voice. In that same vein, Lance thinks Dennis Kucinich's blog, also authored by the man himself, reads "so much like processed oatmeal."

Didn't strike me that way, but maybe that's cuz Iike oatmeal. It's off the diet, but still.

[The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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Chris Lydon: "In the booming energy of blog world, we are glimpsing the fulfillment of an Emersonian vision: this democracy of outspoken individuals." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Esther Dyson, a few weeks ago: "As a new blogger, I am learning that the only way to do it is to do it regularly..." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Road Map. Road map from here on out? I'm going to pick a topic at a time from the wiki and explore it in depth on my weblog. ... [Sam Ruby] 
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Mac Essentials. Die "Nacht des Apfels" war nicht nur für Apple, sondern auch für :itw: ein voller Erfolg: viele hundert Gäste verfolgten den Live-Ticker, und die im Senfkeller "Anwesenden" (falls jemand einen Elefanten gesehen hat - er war wirklich da!) hatten beste Laune und ihren Spaß. Apple präsentierte Produkte und Ankündigungen, die man wohl getrost als "historisch" bezeichnen kann. Hier ein Run-Down mit Links zu weiteren Infos:... [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 
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TIME on phonecam blogging. This week's Time Magazine features a brief feature on phonecam blogging, and mentions textamerica.com -- the free service I've been using for mine. Hey, if your blog is a moblog *and* a photoblog, and you don't want limit the scope to phonecam pics only, could you just call it a mo-pho blog? Link, Discuss, (via Jason DiFilippo's Journal, which is always filled with amazing photos that you really must see.) [Boing Boing Blog] 
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"MT clarifies license structure, announces developer/service provider network" [Daypop Top 40] 
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WatchBlog Statistics. Since launching WatchBlog a little over a week ago, I've been waching the referral logs and closely monitoring the statistics. When I built the site I knew that the idea would be well-received but I underestimated the amount of traffic... [CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box] 
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First play with the new Blogger. We were "upgraded" to the new version of Blogger Pro this weekend and, to echo Jack's comments below, I'm not hugely impressed. The interface is a inelegant thing, and there are little changes to the usability which grate. You can't see previous posts from the create new post page, which means it's harder to get a sense of context as you create your new post, for instance. I can't post and publish - only preview first. And some of the RSS settings weren't copied over correctly. Still, at least it works in Apple's Safari browser, which is something, and it feels a lot faster than the old interface. What it needs - real soon - is some new features, to keep up with the Movable Type crowd. For all that system's complexity, it is starting to look very attractive to me... [onlineblog.com] 
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Innovative Uses for a Computer Classroom?. flard asks: "I will be teaching a Freshman English class at a medium sized public university, in a computer classroom for next semester. Every student has their own machine with an internet connection. I am thinking about using a weblog for them to post their work and critique each other. Do you guys have any other cool ideas on what to do and what NOT to do?" ... [Slashdot] 
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Mark Carey: "If GlobeAlive could combine efforts with Blog community sites, it could gain the users, and broader scope required for it to take off." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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My new phonecam blog, and syndicating moblogs with RSS. I've been fooling around with some new phonecams and a free phonecam blogging service called Textamerica lately. You can see the results at xenijardin.textamerica.com. Each of the phonecams I've demoed have been wildly frustrating in one way or another. Motorola's T722i add-on cam produces grainy thumbnails at best; image quality on Sanyo's 8100 (Sprint) is teh suck in all but bright light conditions. Until those megapixel phonecams hit America, mobile photobloggers might be better off combining a good, small digital camera like the Pentax Optio S with a wireless PDA for uploads and text captions. But despite limitations, the convenience, speed, and novelty of phonecam blogging has been fun so far -- even if the results are mediocre, stamp-sized snapshots.

Chris Pirillo -- whose terrific phonecam blog inspired me to finally get off my digital butt and publish one of my own -- has been corresponding with the textamerica.com folks for weeks with service improvement suggestions. His persistent e-badgering led to the company's introduction of RSS feeds last week. Free, instant phonecam blog syndication. How cool is that? I'm exploring other phonecam blog services, and plan to post more on that soon. Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Marc Canter: "Technorati is quickly becoming the Google of the blogosphere... If you ain't in Technorati, you ain't in the blogosphere." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Dave Sifry says Technorati's now keeping tabs on more than 400,000 blogs: "We hit 100,000 back on March 5, and 200,000 on April 6."

Andrew Acker on that news: "At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year."

Phil Wolff: "I expect Technorati's growth to accelerate until the blogosphere is mostly mapped; then we'll see periodic bursts as new clusters are discovered or services come online."

[Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Iraqi Moblogging. Salam moblogs. (More moblogging replacing/enhancing journalism) [MetaFilter] 
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Log Format Roadmap 
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Blogging from Iran

With Big Media largely ignoring the ongoing unrest in Iran, the Internet is the place to track events. Fortunately, while Iraq only had one blogger when things hit the fan, Iran has hundreds both there and in exile, and many post in English. There's enough you want a site that's capable of filtering and interpreting the flow, as well as looks at the raw feed. Those tracking the closest include:

• Jeff Jarvis
• Winds of Change
• Pejman

If you want to go straight to the sources, Hoder has an exhaustive list of active bloggers.

The good folks in Iran deserve at least our moral support. They also deserve the chance to take back their freedom their own way, with their own hands. A tough conundrum with a nuclear time bomb ticking in the background. [Due Diligence] 
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Bloggercon [Daypop Top 40] 
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"The Corporate Blog Is Catching On" [Daypop Top 40] 
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Kevin McCullough: "While limousine liberals are trying to get a 24 hour news network funded... conservatives are on to the next cultural wave: weblogs." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Blogging in Brazil

BBC reporter Paulo Cabral is travelling along Brazil's São Francisco river, following in the footsteps of Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton.

Each week day, for two weeks, Paulo will be posting a diary entry on the web, and responding to a selection of your e-mails.

[BBC News World Edition] 
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In correction of an earlier post about advertising on weblogs:

Martin Röll confronts a comment spammer on his blog! [Das E-Business Weblog]

The irony of his post actually had me there for a while (until Martin himself enlightened me)

Alright! 
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Brad Choate: RSS 2 Dates and Such. [Scripting News] 
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BlogShares goes live [bradchoate.com Sideblog] 
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Google: Not In My Blog [bradchoate.com Sideblog] 
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Lose, you losing loser who loses!. The biggest losers in the Blogosphere. Metafilter does not do the discussion of weight very well. However, I'd like to introduce you to a group of online folk who have found a way to help each other in losing weight. Meet mtpolitics. He had a moment of body based angst. Da Goddess had an idea. And so a project was born. (Have a care for the pipe, 'cause it ain't real big.) The blogs of the people involved in this contest might offer a unique diversion as well. [MetaFilter] 
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Blog Census 
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Tim Bray raves about the potential of RSS: "We're potentially sitting on a rocket ship. But there are obstacles..." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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"Bloggers Rate the Most Influential Blogs" [Daypop Top 40] 
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Java and the Web Community. Sun is doing interesting things with its java.net site, including "community" functions such as weblogs and even Wikis. It's the... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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nesting instincts. Joe has an interesting post about nesting in RSS. I like the idea, although as Dare points out, something of a bandwidth issue. On the bandwidth front, it seem inevitable that eventually each RSS item will get its own file URI, and the channel will just contain a list of pointers (with timestamps) so that new entries can be pulled down without having to refetch the 14 before it that haven't changed. [Simon Fell] 
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Weblogs and Threaded Messaging. Discussion on the future of weblog comments, the migration to discussion forums, and the merger between the two. Issues to consider:

• the competitive nature of public discussion forums
• the need to promote active reflection
• the usefulness of bridging private, semi-private, and public discourse

JournURL. JournURL: More BBS/Blog Fusion. Another entry in the fusion of the BBS and Blog patterns, JournURL, an attempt to create a CCMS (that'd be Community Content Management System to you and me.) The focus here is improving on the model of simple comments for supporting real discussions in weblogs: "Robust threaded and linear discussion that encourages extended conversations and debate. No simplistic comment system here, folks. No anonymous spam."

JournURL recently launched a way to use its comments system from 3rd party blogging tools: [b.cognosco]

 
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Weblog Post Index. Wow! This is super handy. Clean, simple, straightforward. There is now a complete index of all posts to this weblog since it's inception. I can stop manually updating my archives. Woo Hoo!

Creating an index of weblog posts in Radio

Creating an index of weblog posts in Radio. Inspired by Rob Henerey's suggestion, I've written a Radio script that displays an index of weblog posts for the main weblog or a category.

Looking at the output of the scripts, I wish I had started writing post titles earlier than February. [Rogers Cadenhead: Radio Userland Kick Start]

If you use Radio as your blogging tool of choice, run, don't walk to get Rogers' latest goodie here. It took me about 3 minutes to download, install, and test. I can already see how this will help me extract more value from the posts I've been making here over time.

This is also an excellent example of the extensibility built into Radio. Radio may have its warts, and its user interface leaves a bit to be desired, but that's often true for industrial strength power tools.

Thank you Rogers! [via McGee's Musings]

[b.cognosco] 
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If the only tool you have is a hammer....

A Day In My Life, By Bill Gates. (SOURCE:Scobleizer Radio Weblog)-PREDICTION: Within 10 years, the centre of most knowledge workers (including Bill Gates) will be a blog type application. NOT email. <quote> I'd say that of my time sitting in my office, that is, time outside of meetings, which is a couple of hours, two-thirds of that is sitting in E-mail. E-mail is really my primary application, because that's where I'm getting notifications of new things, that's where I'm stirring up trouble by sending mail out to lots of different groups. So it's a fundamental application. And I think that's probably true for most knowledge workers, that the E-mail is the one they sit in the most. Inside those E-mails they get spreadsheets, they get Word documents, they get PowerPoints, so they navigate out to those things, but the center is E-mail. </quote> [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]

Roland catches the real point of this interview with Gates. The interview provides some interesting raw data on the day-to-day work practices of our economy's quintessential knowledge worker. Email is the tool he has for communications so it is the tool that he uses. It is worth seeing how Gates thinks through how to get leverage from the tools that he has available. We all need to exercise that kind of thought about how to use our knowledge tools -- blogs and aggregators included.

[McGee's Musings] 
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Group Voice.

Lots of good blog posts these days on the differences of wikis and weblogs.  Of course, since they are all blog posts a clear consensus is never reached.  A good way of explaining the differences between the two tools, as wikis drive current state consensus.

[Ross Mayfield: On Blogging] 
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Jim McGee, on the "subtle promise of blogs and RSS aggregation as a tool for knowledge sharing": "The simplicity of the tools allows them to be gently grafted on to existing processes and practices with minimal disruption. The challenge is to let this simplicity work its course..." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Halley Suitt on the history of blogs, the rebirth of story-telling, 9-11, corporate fraud, the empowerment of women through blogs, and much, much more: "Weblogs work the way women work, they invite conversation and interaction in order to solve problems. They are not designed with women in mind, but they are all about cooperation, conversation and transparency." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Mark Glaser: One-Man Blogs Prove There Is Money to Be Made by Online Journals 
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RSS Reading via Email. I have tried more RSS readers, than you have had hot dinners. I have finally settled to have something that integrates with my email. Each blog has a folder and posts are filtered into the correct folder. Bob Lee wrote fetchrss to help with this endeavour, and recently released it via the new java.net portal. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Martin Röll confronts a comment spammer on his blog!

[Das E-Business Weblog]

The irony of his post actually had me there for a while (until Martin himself enlightened me)

Way to go, Martin! 
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Rafat Ali, in an article on one-man blog ventures, on the demands of nanomedia and the 14-16 hour days he puts in pointing to articles from other sources: "Link, link, link, link... I can link everybody to death." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Anne Holland: "Wahoo! The average amount a Blogwriter makes by selling ads via BlogAds has gone up from $30 to $50 month, with the really red hot sites pulling $750 monthly." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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Web services visionary. [Sam Ruby] 
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RSS-Search Merges with Feedster. [Scripting News] 
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Iran and its 10,000 Salam Paxes [BuzzMachine] 
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Kudos to Oliver Wrede for his Newsposter: a consistent source of compelling reading (some German required). Thank you. Danke schön. 
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RSS: News That Comes to You [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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The Good, The Bad, and the Blogly 
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Creating an index of weblog posts in Radio. Inspired by Rob Henerey's suggestion, I've written a Radio script that displays an index of weblog posts for the main weblog or a category.

Looking at the output of the scripts, I wish I had started writing post titles earlier than February. [Workbench] 
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"Blog your Music" online/offline event in France. BoingBoing pal Jean-Luc in Paris writes:

We have launched a collaborative event for June 21st, "Music Day" in France and other countries. On that day, every blogger (wherever he lives) can do on his blog a post or more about music in general and must link to another blog that participates in "Blogue Ta Musique" (blogging your music). Every blogger can participate (it's free of course !) by sending me a message with the URL of his blog at mediatic@netcourrier.com . We include it in the blogroll of "blogue ta musique" blog here. And on June 31st, Blog Ta Musique and mediatic will mention hour per hour each new music message.

More than 30 french speaking bloggers will participate. Some examples will be interesting : Kill Me Again will create a song for this day and will post it on his blog, Philippe Allard will cover the Music Day in Brussels by moblogging, and on a Wiki page here Christophe Ducamp will create a collaborative page about Joe Strummer.

"Blogue Ta Musique" is an initiative from me and the french free solution for blogging.

Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Blogs like Electric Venom sure make me realize how much work lies ahead... sigh! ' need more time. 
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Top of the Blog, Ma!.

The headline is a semi-obscure reference to the movie White Heat, with James Cagney at his bad-guy best.

Anyway, it's what Panoramas.dk/ brings to mind with Blogging Mt. Everest:

How 2 links at Kottke and The Presurfer growed to 840 links and 200.000 visitors in 24 days.

[The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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Get Envenomed!

...' promise to check it out after I get some much needed sleep... nighty night! ...er, at 6am it's more like nighty day!

 
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Blogs breed western corruption [Ars Techinca] 
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Hiawatha Bray: "There's plenty of juice left in the blogging boom." [Scripting News] 
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More MoFotoblogging in the news.

Wired and The Guardian both have articles on the intersection between fotologs and camera-enabled mobile phones.  Wired looks at blogging activism with an eye on the G8 summit.

The Guardian uses 20six as a jumping off point on the history of moblogging and a quick review of many of the tools and sites that support mobile fotologging. They also look a bit at the economics:

Many-to-many has a bit about the uproad at fotolog now that they've been cursed with success and need to pass their growing bandwidth and storage costs back to their users.  Many of their users will be unable to do anything about the changes, but those with technical chops can install their own mobloging software, or move their stuff elsewhere.  Why would I use T-mobile's hiptop.com, which claims full intellectual property for anything users post, when they can use 20six.com,  blogger's mobloging product that is in development or something like eachday.net?

[Corante: Amateur Hour] 
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The People's Mesh Manifesto.

Marc Canter has written a detail history of multimedia through his early developer/artist eyes, ending with a call to arms for what he calls the "People's Mesh"

Everything we need has been invented, now it's time to get it all to work together

One of the most exciting evolutions I see coming is how the technical and social standards established within the blogosphere will spread around the world.... [Corante: Amateur Hour]

 
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Welcome to itopik.com...
So tonight we are under way with the itopik blog/rss topic/subject directory. We will add the subtopics as we go based on what user's suggest as well as what places like Google, Yahoo, etc. are using as topic categories.
Everybody has a slightly different take on organization and taxonomy of course.

Next we'll add the link over to itown.com from the add_me page so that you can add your URL & RSS (Newsfeed) by area if you like.

There remains the discussion of how many topiks should someone register...unlimited or limited? I've thought maybe three, but curious to feedback.

Granted it is humble, but it is a start. Circulate the word if you would, and we'll add the links to the writing that you're doing... by topik and by town... after all, it's about what you're writing! [Harvey Kirkpatrick: itopik.com News] 
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Celebrate permalinks. Tom Coates has posted a very, very good essay on permalinks and what they mean.

It may seem like a trivial piece of functionality now, but it was effectively the device that turned weblogs from an ease-of-publishing phenomenon into a conversational mess of overlapping communities. For the first time it became relatively easy to gesture directly at a highly specific post on someone else's site and talk about it. Discussion emerged. Chat emerged. And - as a result - friendships emerged or became more entrenched. The permalink was the first - and most successful - attempt to build bridges between weblogs. It existed way before Trackback and I think it's been more fundamental to our development as a culture than comments... Not only that, it added history to weblogs as well - before you'd link to a site's front page if you wanted to reference something they were talking about - that link would become worthless within days, but that didn't matter because your own content was equally disposable. The creation of the permalink built-in memory - links that worked and remained consistent over time, conversations that could be archived and retraced later. The permalink stopped all weblog conversations being like that guy in Memento...

Link

Discuss

(via Dan Gillmor) [Boing Boing Blog] 
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BlogMatcher: A kick-ass automated blog matchmaking service.

While I don't think it renders my own handrolled matchmaking offer completely irrelevant, Ryo Chijiiwa's BlogMatcher (found via Langemarks Cafe) is by far the best link correlator I've seen yet. The three closest matches to my blog that it turns up are Seblogging, Ming the Mechanic, and Puzzlepieces, and I think it's actually a very fine selection for someone with my interests. The rest of the top suggestions are also pretty good.

The FAQ is quite informative, as well. Similar earlier "related blogs" services include the BlogStreet neighborhood (which offers a cool visualization app as well), and Mark Pilgrim's New Door application, which no longer seems to work.

[Seb's Open Research] 
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Is the MTTB (mean time to Blogdex) computable?.

Interestingly, BlogMatcher's link cosmos shows that the word about it has been out for two weeks already, but it didn't start seriously ripping through the blogosphere until just two days ago. Assuming one knows that a particular meme is bound to explode at some point, is the "fuse length" predictable, say, from social network connectivity data?

Note that a kind of Heisenberg uncertainty principle is at work here: if you reference a specific test case publicly, you're certain to influence its diffusion process.

[Update] Ryo writes that he set up a referer feedback loop a couple days ago, which might have triggered it all.

[Seb's Open Research] 
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Achtung Baby! Heads Up!

Blogmatcher.com
New Door
SimilarLists

 
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More blogstats. Michael has just appended links to Weblogs.com: Seeing the Curve (on the blogosphere's growth rate across time) and to Hot Weblog Crawling Action (stats by tool and language) to the Weblogs by the Numbers page. Both worth a look. [Seb's Open Research] 
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Mary Harrsch: RSS -- The Next Killer App for Education. [Scripting News] [Not So Obvious] 
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Implementing Trackback for Radio Userland in 3 easy steps.

Paolo was wondering whether we could setup the standalone Trackback server and use it to implement trackbacks for Radio Userland.  It turns out (as this post proves) that the answer is yes!  All that was required was to install the CGI and then write a macro for Radio Userland and embed it in the #itemTemplate.txt.

The macro is supplying the RDF metadata that Trackback depends upon.  In order to allow the standalone trackback server to serve multiple blogs I have added a unique prefix (in my case @matt.blogs.it) to the unique post ID's supplied to the trackback server.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] [Not So Obvious] 
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Using a Mac on a cross country bike trip. Columnist Mike Wendland has been trying to figure out how to blog a couple of upcoming bike trips from the road using his 12-inch PowerBook G4, and in his search for solutions he came up with the following: [Mac Net Journal] [Not So Obvious] 
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Ridiculously easy group-forming via k-collector.

Communal topics and super-blogs. Matt on k-collector and shared topics: "If you click a topic name on my weblog now you don't get a local page but, instead, the dynamic k-collector page for that topic.  At the moment this is an aggregation of all the posts about that topic from anyone subscribing to the cloud." [Curiouser and curiouser!]

I hope to find time soon to compare this to the Internet Topic Exchange and investigate interoperability in both directions. More than ever do I believe that there is promise in loose community formation among bloggers. Many ingredients are there that weren't around only six months ago: more developers, many more bloggers (meaning more diversity and overlap of interests at the same time), and new complementary technology, such as the shiny new Technorati API.

Now, this is nothing more than educated guesswork, but I have a feeling that, say, a year from now, many of my favorite sources will not be personal blogs, but rather topical feeds that have been duly post-processed in some way by the collective intelligence of my microblogosphere.

While it makes me kind of sad to entertain the thought of progressively abandoning per-person subscriptions, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up with all of those tremendously interesting new voices without the help of more sophisticated personal relevance filters.

[Seb's Open Research] 
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Are you an isoblogger?.

Blogging thoughts and philosophies is a neat rant that proposes a taxonomy of bloggers according to their linking behaviors. (via Stuart)

 

[Seb's Open Research] 
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Blogs open new frontiers for self-expression [NYU Weblog Portal] 
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Marc Canter: The New Paradigm of Tools 
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Microsoft Bloggers Under the Corporate Microscope. On Tuesday, Microsoft corporate is sponsoring a panel on the topic of Microsoft corporate blogging. Could some kind of official Microsoft policy on blogging be in the offing? Stay tuned. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 
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Java.net Weblogs.

Weblogs are important part of Java.net although one needs to stroll around a bit to find them.  I usually go here to find new articles.  Here are two articles worthy of mention this week:

In Whats up with the JavaSound team?, Jonathan Simon discovers that entire JavaSound team split a while back and now there is just one hardworking guy wearing many hats.

This is ridiculous on a number of levels! How does Sun expect to put out a decent product with a single guy responsible for all of JavaSound? Also, the code was poorly designed to begin with, and Florian can't even really change it! So whats left is a really buggy, poorly designed library that is on every Java enabled PC!

Michael Champion, an old compadre from XML-DEV, answers the question "When does SOAP add value over simple HTTP+XML?" and concludes with:

It's just as "wrong" to blindly reject SOAP as to blindly accept. it.

Right on, Michael.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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News.Com: Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet. The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or "blogs"), must offer a "right of reply" to those who have been criticized by a person or organization. [Tomalak's Realm] 
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Java.net Weblogs.

Weblogs are important part of Java.net although one needs to stroll around a bit to find them.  I usually go here to find new articles.  Here are two articles worthy of mention this week:

In Whats up with the JavaSound team?, Jonathan Simon discovers that entire JavaSound team split a while back and now there is just one hardworking guy wearing many hats.

This is ridiculous on a number of levels! How does Sun expect to put out a decent product with a single guy responsible for all of JavaSound? Also, the code was poorly designed to begin with, and Florian can't even really change it! So whats left is a really buggy, poorly designed library that is on every Java enabled PC!

Michael Champion, an old compadre from XML-DEV, answers the question "When does SOAP add value over simple HTTP+XML?" and concludes with:

It's just as "wrong" to blindly reject SOAP as to blindly accept. it.

Right on, Michael.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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UserLand: The next weblogging buyout?. Roland Tanglao writes in a comment to Workbench, "Too bad UserLand doesn't seem to have the money to hire one developer for each platform (Frontier, Manila and Radio) and the right number of support people, because if they did there's no way MovableType or anybody else could keep up with them."

After Google bought Pyra and Moveable Type's developers secured venture financing, UserLand Software is the last chance for an outside company to buy their way into overnight credibility in weblog publishing.

Lately, I've been expecting to fire up Scripting News and learn that Microsoft, Adobe, or Apple purchased the company as part of an aggressive push to get into the space. Microsoft certainly has at least one employee who knows what UserLand has to offer. [Workbench] 
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Brad DeLong's prodigious sidebar ... all I've got to say is check out dude's sidebar. Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. Lots of stuff to click on. Makes me swoon. I gonna lie down now cause concussion has me sleepy ... [disconnected] 
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Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication. [Slashdot] 
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Worth your time. Truly engaging websites. Beautiful redesigns. CSS mini-tabs. Great reads on the use of weblogs for marketing and PR; design basics, from fonts and color to white space and alignment; how fonts really work in Mac OS X. Desktop backgrounds. Swedish pop bands. And so much more. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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DaveNet: NY Times Archive, Weblogs and RSS. [Scripting News] 
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JournURL: More BBS/Blog Fusion. »Another entry in the fusion of the BBS and Blog patterns, JournURL, an attempt to create a CCMS (that'd be Community Content Management System to you and me.) The focus here is improving on the model of simple comments for supporting real discussions in weblogs: "Robust threaded and linear discussion that encourages extended conversations and debate. No simplistic comment system here, folks. No anonymous spam."«

As I've said in the past, blog comment systems generally suck. They're fine for "me too" responses and the occasional one-liner, but they quickly show their limitations when put to the task of managing large, intense discussions. ... Meanwhile, here I am, sitting on what is probably the most robust, blog-friendly discussion app anywhere, and all of those people out there using Movable Type and similar apps can't take advantage of it. ... I've decided to see what I can do to make this thing more useful to people using "foreign" blogging apps. Enter ping2talk. ...

[Corante: Social Software] [owrede_log] 
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Students teaching with blogs. Jill Walker: »One thing I've really liked in the student weblogs I've been grading is that there are a lot of posts that are really useful. It's so different from exams where only the examiners are ever going to see all the work students have done. For instance, a colour blind student teaches other students and readers how to design sites that can be read by colour blind people (you'll have more colour blind readers than readers using Opera or Netscape or needing websafe colours or any of those other things we fret about), another student explains how to make skins for your blog, one explains how to use php to join up separate html files. There are lots of comments from other students on the blogs, and questions are asked and answered and there are links to and fro and they've just done a really impressive job.« [owrede_log] 
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Watchblog: Coming From All Sides. Proximity Politics. One kind of proximity politics refers to new-found adjacency resulting from globalization which forces new dilemmas before citizens. Another kind of proximity politics refers to the coat-tail riding of aspiring politicians who try to trade on the fame, glory or popularity of others. Still another kind of proximity politics are practiced in attack ads, in which politicans seek to attach their oppenents' names to negatives without explicit accusations, relying instead upon a series of words or short phrases without the grammatical glue which might permit proper parsing or analysis. And the final kind of proximity politicsâ??probably the most positiveâ??are those practiced by WatchBlog, which calls paid to the inward-looking, self-reinforcing echo chambers of one-view political forums. Instead, the two main American parties and their myriad third-party siblings are posting to the same arena. It's the answer to the question, "How can people's minds be changed if they only seek out what they already agree with?" If the opposite camp is in the text column next door, maybe you can't help but to take a dose of what's turning out to be strong commentary largely free of carbon-copy rhetoric, cardboard cut-outs, and cookie-cutter opinions. [MetaFilter] 
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RVW specs. Alf Eaton has announced the RVW Specs.

RVW is intended to allow machine-readable reviews to be integrated into an RSS feed, thus allowing reviews to be automatically compiled from distributed sources.

He's also using "ENT" to describe the type of subject under review. Exellent! [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 
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Trackback. Looks like we got trackback working on a couple or Radio weblogs. It still needs some work but it looks promising. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 
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Check out Thistle 
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WatchBlog [Camworld] 
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TrackBack Addenda. Clarifications, corrections, and notes regarding yesterday's little blurb on TrackBack. [Daring Fireball] 
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Radio UserLand: This way lies madness. For Chapter 21 of Radio UserLand Kick Start, I'm working on a gateway tool that posts weblog entries via HTTP POST to any Web CGI script, even if it requires cookie-based authentication.

As a demonstration, the tool is mirroring the last five Workbench posts to my Metafilter user page (login required to view).

Radio gets knocked for being maddeningly complicated when you venture beyond the "five minutes to first post" features, and in some ways working with the software promotes Apocalypse Now-style "oh, the horror" moments. However, the fact you can do stuff like this in a few hours' work with under 50 lines of code is really amazing. [Workbench] 
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Permalinks and Why They Matter. Tom Coates: On Permalinks and Paradigms... There are some things that become so ubiquitous and familiar to us - so... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Adam Kalsey has unveiled Simpletracks, a web interface for those without Trackback but still want to ping a Trackback URL. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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LiveJournal Supports Blogger API. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Preventing RSS exploits with Radio. I'm working on a Radio script that addresses RSS exploits.

Mark Pilgrim's suggestion of weeding out the unsafe HTML seems futile. Instead, the script removes all HTML tags and attributes other than a small subset that can't be abused: P, B, I, BR, and BLOCKQUOTE (all without attributes), A (with HREF only), and IMG (with SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, and WIDTH only). I'm hoping the script also has the side benefit of making RSS entries easier to read.

The script works on the text of entries, but I can't find a way to make it work with the storyArrived callback. If anyone has tackled this problem before, I've begin a discussion on the radio-dev mailing list. [Workbench] 
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zBlogger.com A new free weblog service [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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The Semantic Blog. (»That's the Semantic Web dilemma in a nutshell. Where's the sweet spot? How can we marry spontaneity and structure? Recent trends in blogspace, plus emerging XML-savvy databases suggest a way forward.«)

Structured Writing, Structured Search. [Der Schockwellenreiter]

 
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Mark Pilgrim trained the attack platypus.

Well, it sure screwed my feed reading until I managed to kill it in the Radio ODB... FSCK that, it's enough for me to ditch his feed. [thx to Rogers Cadenhead for the info]

It's not that one doesn't appreciate attention being drawn to security issues but, let's face it, posting a detailed alert, possibly with a link to an example of the exploit where the curious could choose to see for themselves, would have been much more commendable. 
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Transcripts of WBS 2003 conference. Heath Row is really fast with the keyboard. So there are almost complete transcripts of the panels available (there are also some alternative transcripts from Denise Howell). They haven't provided an overview of the transcripts, so I add that here:

Postlude

XVII: Live Blogging

XVI: Using Weblogs in Large IT Organizations

XV: The Open Source Media Movement

XIV: The Law of the Blog

XIII: Weblogs -- New Syndication Models Or Uncontrolled Platforms?

XII: Where Weblogs Matter

XI: Digital Self-Fashioning

X: Blogging Technologies And Platforms -- Today And Tomorrow (alternative transcript)

IX: Blogs and/as Content Management (alternative transcript)

VIII: Strategies and Tips for Business Blogging Success (alternative transcript)

VII: Why Weblogs Matter (alternative transcript)

VI: Managing A Business Blog (alternative transcript)

V: Are Weblogs A Threat Or Opportunity For Enterprises? (alternative transcript)

IV: What Are Weblogs? (alternative transcript)

III: Business Weblogs -- Blogging For Fun And Profit

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