If this works, I’ll be posting this via NewsGator
1.2’s new Outlook posting interface! Congratulations Greg!
Update: Well, the post arrived, but it had no title and the HTML was a bit mangled. I think in part because of Outlook 2003’s HTML formatting and the fact that I used the Blogger API plug-in. I think I need to update my b2/cafelog to support the MetaWeblog API

Dave Sifry’s just publicly announced the Technorati API (link via Ben), which seems very timely (for Dave) given the recent report of a new Google-powered blog search engine.

Also with Google’s blog-enlightenment, will Technorati become the next Daja or more specifically the next Google search tab?

As for the API, I like the fact that it’s REST-ful, which should enable simple integration. I just scooped up my Technorati API-Key and may give it a try on my blog and perhaps internally on an internet portal.

A quote from the article titled href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30621.html">Google to fix blog
noise problem found on The Register…

“The main problem with blogs is that, as far as Google is
concerned, they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is
idle chatter,” wrote Roddy. “And through some fluke of their evil software,
they seem to get indexed really fast, so when a major political or social
event happens, Google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start
at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs.”

Perhaps this problem calls for Google to dig a bit deeper into those links.
I believe for the most part blogs provide valid page rankings, but it’s the
contextual information that can be lacking at times.

In addition, I think that clustering blogs that reference the same or
similar sources like Blogdex, href="http://www.daypop.com/">Daypop, href="http://www.popdex.com/">Popdex and href="http://www.technorati.com">Technocrati, which come to think of it
is similar to what you see on Google
News.

Hmmm…

Hmm, looks like Lockergnome’s Bits & Bytes started to put text Ads into its RSS feed on Friday.

Anders Jacobsen, whose blog I have just started to read on a regular bases (due to his comments here that I still need to respond too), has some rather compelling posts about KM and blogging, like for example this response to the recent Business 2.0 article on Management by Blog:

Anders Jacobsen: “I don’t think blogging in businesses will be capturing the water-cooler buzz… On the other hand blogs definitely have potential to smoothen out the intranet / knowledge database submission process. “

I agree that corporate blogging will have a greater impact in the capturing of information, but do think blogging complements the water-cooler buzz, especially with the emergence of portable wireless devices and moblogging — Albeit, blogging will never take the place of face-to-face real-time ad hoc collaboration.

Sounds like Greg Reinacker is brewing up a posting interface for NewsGator via Simon Fell’s IBlogThis interface.

Cool!

This is pretty neat, as part of the Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack, there’s a blogging plugin for Windows Media Player that will insert the info about the current track playing into you blog post (see below)

Esther Dyson now has a blog and
an RSS feed
thanks to Sam Ruby (of course)

the World as a Blog — “Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world”

Very clever!

Tony Pierce is selling links
from his blog on eBay and he actually has bids!
(links via BoingBoing)

Doh! Why didn’t I think of that!

Well, I certainly don’t have the market share of Tony’s blog, but on March
6th my valuation was at $403.06 :-)