The rise of blogging
Internet giants catch on to blogs / Major portals provide services for online journals

"It definitely seems like blogging is losing its underground image," said Matthew Haughey, co-author of the book "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs" and co-founder of Blogroots, a Web site that chronicles blogging news. ...
(SFGate.com) [via The Blog Herald] 
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Fight or Switch?
PostNuke or pMachine? Portal, vortal, or classic blog? The Blogalization test-kitchens are busy cooking up alternatives.
[Blogalization Community] 
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The Why and How of Blogging
a presentation by Nick Finck for the Web Design World 2003 in Seattle.
[Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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First Draft
Today I found another source of experienced opinion on the changing face of print communications -- Tim Porter, a fellow traveler into the future of print.
From his web page bio:

"I am an editor and writer who entered newspapering as a reporter with a typewriter and left it as an editor building websites. Today, I work independently but retain a passion for newspapers and the pursuit of quality journalism."

The website he built belonged to the San Francisco Examiner, and he was formerly the city editor there as well.

Porter's weblog, First Draft, chronicles the triumphs and travails of the newspaper industry. Newspapers -- like their ailing sisters in the printing industry -- are another industrial-age giant trying desperately to cope with a geriatric future. Their road into the future of print won't be easy, but for a lot of reasons they'll figure out how to survive. It just may not look anything like it does today. And the lessons they learn may be important to all of us.
[b.cognosco] 
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Static or dynamic blog, which is best?
Christoph has an interesting entry on the obvious benifits of a static structure over the dynamic structure of a blog.... I bet he's a DIY fan too :) Personaly I like the MT solution, but will be the first to admit that it takes a little too much hard work to install and comes with some useable but hardly appealing templates...
(via Reflective Reality) [Channel 'social_software'] 
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How to Organize Feeds
Via Paolo Valdemarin: "When publishing on a weblog or any other kind of site, authors could define their posts as part of a "channel", such as technology, politics, etc. Newsreaders able to parse this kind of information could provide users with additional tools to organize what they read. A shared taxonomy to define categories would make this process much more useful to the user."...
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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More On Semantic Blogging
I am starting to pick lots of stuff up in RSS feeds about semantic blogging. Phil has had a number of post in the past week following a semantic blogging demo at HP. Here's a presentation from the project summarizing the intent. Here's the actual blog for the project. It is very cool to see a company like HP investing resources in blogging and RSS. Paolo is working on a semantic news aggregator. This is just the beginning. Once people start grokking how this all works, it's going to explode. Semantic blogging is a way to take back the control of your online life.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog] 
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Microcontent Wiki
I guess Richard means that there should be a way to subscribe to a post and all its comments and TrackBacks! Agreed!

"Weblogs and Wikis are authoring tools that enable everyday people to write to the Web. However one part of the Writeable Web is often overlooked: weblog comments. Often some of the best nuggets of content can be found buried in a comment attached to a weblog post. I've even coined a phrase for this: Microcontent Wiki, which is defined as: Weblog Post Comments. It's microcontent because it's usually content based around a single theme or topic (defined by the weblog post). And it's like a Wiki because anyone can write a comment on a weblog, so it has a similar collaborative feel to a Wiki. The problem is, currently we don't have an easy way to track Microcontent Wikis. We can subscribe to RSS feeds for weblogs and even topics (k-collector), but weblog comments aren't as simple to aggregate."

(via Read/Write Web) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] 
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The Spanish Feedster
And why Feedster might be the Google rival to watch.
[Blogalization Community] 
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The Israeli Blogs & Journals Index
Eureka! A report of Hebrew and English blogs from Israel. Add to wiki.
[Blogalization Community] 
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