Something is wrong with my RSS/Atom feeds. I’m not sure what’s up, but for some reason the feed does not have any content in the items even though the blog has updated content. I’m still trying to investigate the problem.

The act of maintaining ones weblog via proxy or more specifically, using an API feature from a remote service, such as the one from del.icio.us, to automatically post to your blog.

I’ve been using the daily blog posting feature of del.icio.us for a few years. It started out sparse, but admittedly the daily link dump has dominated my blogging activities (as you can see from the archives).

I’m sure my wife and friends can attest to how many times I’ve stated, “I need to blog more”, but the quick “select text”, right-click, “post to del.icio.us” is just too damn easy. Perhaps if I state my ambition more publicly it would inspire me to post more “manual”.

Much of my blogging these days has been taken over by the links and quick comments I have been posting to the del.icio.us social bookmarks manager. So I decided to completely mesh what I’m doing @ del.icio.us with my blog.

The integration process is actually fairly simple with the help of the experimental daily blog posting interface found in del.icio.us (@/settings/USER/daily). Basically, you enter the XML-RPC interface entry point from your blog, some user credentials and the process will deposit into your blog any links posted to your del.icio.us account in the last 24 hours — complete with extended comments and tags. Nice!

Sweet! Dan Grigsby just informed me that he created a Windows Installer for my del.icio.us Context Menu script. Aside from how clean and professional Dan’s installer makes the context menus, you can also use Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows to remove the menu.

Thanks Dan!

I decided to consolidate many of my XML feeds using the excellent FeedBurner service. The process was very simple using Matt’s straight forward tips on redirecting existing feeds to FeedBurner.

In addition, I opted to use FeedBurner’s Link Splicer to include daily dumps of my del.icio.us bookmarks into my main feed. So if you’re reading this via a news aggregator you’ll notice the post flow increase.

Over the past six or so months, I’ve found it to be faster to post quick annotations using my del.icio.us right-click context menu hack (shameless plug). So much of what I formally posted in my main blog now gets tagged and shared with del.icio.us. This is especially useful when I’m short on time.

Last night I decided to upgrade Movable Type to version 3.01D. The upgrade went very smoothly. I’m very impressed with the seamlessness the MT crew created with this upgrade. Overall the system feels much faster too.

I think the hardest part was backing up my current installation and database, which really wasn’t that hard.

I’m attempting to re-enable commenting and trackbacks, but I think I have to rebuild my site to get the TypeKey registration working correctly.

The Seattle Times has an article saying Bill Gates may become a blogger (via Anil).

“Yes, the world’s richest man may start his own blog, one of those online diaries that have been the rage among techies for the past three or four years.”

As funny as it is to think of a secret Bill Gates Blog, I think it also sends a clear message to corporations at large that there’s viability in utilizing blogging to connect with customers, partners and employees.

Weblogs, Inc. new Blogging Baby weblog is like Slashdot for Parents (sans all the MSFT bashing ;-)

Of course there are a few RSS feeds too — no Atom feed though.

I couldn’t take it anymore! Last night I took Burningbird’s suggestion and turned-off commenting on any post older than 30 days. I may turn commenting off entirely if this weekend is any indication of the logarithmic growth in comment spamming.

Comment Spammers… why do you bother? You’re not getting any extra PageRank points from your messages due to the external URL redirects MT 2.661 has in place. Plus, thanks to MT-Blacklist, your polution is trashed almsot as quickly as it’s posted.

I must have missed this, but back in December 2003, Johann Schmidt released the latest version of MTshell, which as the subject says is a CLI for MovableType.

“MTshell is a perl program which allows you to maintain your Movable Type blog from a command line prompt. If you’re a Linux/Unix user and run an instance of Movable Type on a server which you have shell access to you’ll probably be interested.”

I recently started reading Chris Pratley blog. Chris is the Microsoft OneNote Group Program Manager and it appears he has been publicly blogging for only a weeks. Yet in just a few entries, Chris not only provides unique insight into MSFT’s product development practices and techniques, but I also feel that the blog broadens the user community’s perspective of the product.

Specifically, you can also see how this type of public communication about a product (and an excellent one I might add) can spawn user feedback that will undoubtedly influence the product’s direction.

Prognosticator Dave Pell of Davenetics and NextDraft fame is at it again, this time with Electablog (RSS feed too), which Dave describes as…

“electablog provides a daily (and sometimes nightly) slicing and dicing of the mad dash that is America’s election cycle. Think of it as C-Span meets the Daily Show meets the little girl from Whale Rider meets Dennis Miller before he lost his mind.”

Dude! When do you sleep?

The other day I was browsing through the Wayback Machine and discovered a number of four-year-old weblog entries I posted to my then homegrown blog tool. They weren’t earth shattering entries, but I figured I’d bring them back home.

So, after a few quick regular expression hacks I managed to format them for import into MovableType (complete way links to archived pages on the Wayback Machine)

Brewster Kahle, you rock!

Bob Mould of Sugar and of course Hüsker Dü now has a weblog.

Welcome Bob! I certainly do remember with many of your songs still cycling through my playlists.

Matt Berther has released version 2.0.0.1 of his MovableType posting client/plugin MovablePoster, which integrates nicely with NewsGator in addition to being a stand-alone Windows client. (of course I’m testing MovablePoster via this post :-)

Wow! Greg has been busy! In addition to announcing NewsGator 2.0, there will also be NewsGator Online Services, which includes three [new] content reader editions:

• “Web Edition — NewsGator Online Services provides a web-based content reader, which allows users to read content they have subscribed to from any web browser.”
• “POP Edition — NewsGator Online Services allows users to read their subscribed feeds in any email client. This includes Outlook Express and Eudora on Windows, Apple Mail and Entourage on the Mac, and any other email client that supports POP3. “
• “Mobile Edition — NewsGator Online Services allows users to read their subscribed feeds on any mobile device that supports HTML, including mobile wireless phones and PDA’s. This is a powerful feature for road warriors who use mobile devices to access information while away from home or the office. “

Congratulations Greg! I can’t wait to use the new tools!

Last night I hacked together a bit of JavaScript to add a right-click context menu posting option to Joshua Schachter’s Social Bookmarks Manager.

It works in a similar fashion to the bookmarklet, but is accessible via the right-click context menu in IE. It also adds the feature of pulling in any text selected on the page into the “extended” description field and remembers your del.icio.us/user path after the first invocation by storing it in a cookie.

No time to blog? Try Drunk Men Work Here’s free weblog service and utilize their Zero-Click posting technology

Best of all, there’s no learning required!

I’m again using jpcache with my blog. This time however, I’ve integrated the PHP-based gzip and caching capabilities of jpcache with Movable Type.

You should see a significant speed improvement through out the site — especially on some of the longer category pages.

It was fairly easy to incorporate into MT since I’m already outputting PHP files from my MT templates. Basically, after following the uncomplicated install guide for jpcache and running a few sample test pages, all I needed to do was “prepend” the jpcache script to the end of my PHP files.

The file ‘mt-send-entry.cgi’ in a default MovableType installation can be used to relay spam. If you’re not using the script to allow your users to “Send this Entry by Email”, you can safely remove the file from your MT install or change the permissions so that the script cannot execute.

However, if you need the functionality Ben Trott has posted a fix, but IMHO, you’d be safer pushing this function client-side using a mailto with some JavaScript

Over the last week, usually in the mid-to-late evenings — after Catherine falls asleep, I have been slowly migrating my B2-based blog to Movable Type.

I must say that for the most part the process has been fairly straight forward. The MT system installed smoothly and customizing the core MT templates, while time-consuming getting them to fit my old B2 template, were rather easy and extremely flexible.

However, during the migration process I had some interesting obstacles. In particular, I wanted to seamlessly maintain the entire URL-space of my old B2 blog with my new MT blog. My initial thinking was that with a little data-scrubbing and massaging I could export the MySQL table data from B2 and import the data into the MT table-space.

I’m getting my fair share of comment spam like many other bloggers, but I can’t imagine that the cost/time ratio is actually worth it.

I think Sam Ruby sums it up best:

“65 minutes to create. Carefully crafted to appear to be on topic. 10 seconds to wipe out.”

LOL! Dumb asses!

Ross Mayfield posted an excerpt from an interview with the CSO of Salesforce.com in regard to Social Networking. The interview was conducted by IBDN, but I wasn’t able to find a direct link. However, here’s a quote from the M2M blog:

IBDN: We know that consumers will pay to find a date, but will they pay to find business contacts?

FULBRIGHT: Yes, one name for them is “leads,” and sales and marketing organizations pay thousands of dollars for leads today. Leads are the life-blood of every business. Another type of paid business contact is called “candidates,” and again companies have been paying recruiters or internal referrals thousands of dollars for great candidates for at least 50 years.

Cool! Greg has released a NewsGator posting plug-in for B2! (hopefully this will work!)

Awesome collaborative phone-cam-blog that covers the Blackout.

Greg Reinacker has just released NewsGator 1.3, which includes initial support for Pie/EchoAtom feeds, among many other great new features!

Congratulations (again) Greg!

Interesting study released by Microdoc News debunking (mathematically) that blogs are clogging Google

[Estimations show] “there are about 150 million webpages that belong to blogs. Out of 3.8 billion webpages 150 million is about 3.9% of all pages in Google and blogs appear in the top ten results only 2.1% of the time. It seems to me that blogs are being under-represented and not over represented in Google.

Link to Microdoc News via Anil Dash

Like many other bloggers, I’ve decided to give Google’s AdSense a test run.

I suppose I’m most interested in the type of Ads that get served on subsequent posts. Specifically, the context matching of content to Ads. So far it seems to be working well.

However, I do wish Google offered more flexibility with the style and sizes of the Ads.

Congratulations to Matthew and Mike on the release of WordPress, which is the official fork in the b2/cafélog blog tool.

On a test server I converted the data from my current b2-based blog to WordPress with very little trouble. Especially helpful was the handy upgrade script included with WordPress.

For the most part everything seems to be working well. I was even able to get the search-engine-friendly URLs working. I may in fact upgrade my live b2 blog with the new WordPress code. However, I want to run a few tests and see if any bugs pop-up before I take the plunge.

Ok, I suppose my post is a reaction or vote to
Microdoc News Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story study, which not surprisingly is tracking on Blogdex.

Whatever the case, and the label for what I’m doing here, I do find Microdoc’s study to be quite interesting. In particular, the following quotes…

Microdoc News has developed a picture of how a blogosphere story gets started, how that story develops and then how it then comes to an end. While each blogosphere story has its own pattern of development, the similarities between one story and another is intriguingly similar. The smallest blogosphere stories can have as few as fifteen bloggers, the average story has between 40 and 60 bloggers, while the largest one to date had about 285 bloggers involved. A blogosphere story can be as small as 180 posts in total, while the largest we studied has numbered 7,540 posts in total.
[… and later …]
“Perhaps the last conclusions we came to in this study is that blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other. Blog stories are understood and appreciated in aggregate and not in isolation. On the other hand, mainstream media stories tend to be read in isolation rather than read and compared.

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 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.”

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. “

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 :-)

Looks like Blogger is gearing up to release a new version called Dano.

There’s not much info right now other than a short FAQ, but more info should be available shortly (according to the site).

Heh, I also realized that I have a few months worth of old blog posts at blogger. Hmm, it might be worth importing into b2.

Doc is quoted in Crain’s B2B Marketing article about corporate weblogs:

“Weblog expert Searls said that companies of all stripes might do well to consider complementing their formal marketing messages with the more direct connection to customers that Weblogs can deliver—with or without the endorsement of the marketing department.”

Cool! I found a b2 hack by Donncha O Caoimh that incorporates the Smarty template engine.

Just what I was looking for to speed up the responsiveness of this blog! Now, I just need to find some time to test and install it.

Lilia Efimova, Diana Mehta and Sebastian Fiedler have an interesting discussion going on about using the metaphor of a Jazz band to describe the interactions that take place in the blogshere.

Diana Mehta uses a quote from jazz musician Doug Little on her Ryze page in reference to improvisational “interactions”:

“What I play will inspire the drummer to play something. The drummer might inspire me to play something. The musicians listen to one another and make spontaneous decisions. The possibilities are endless. It is always within the form and it is always interconnected with each person but it is never the same.

Lilia Efimova nicely pulls together various opinions on how blogs and the dialogs they produce provide a perspective into ones identity not necessarily found in the office.

Ben Hammersley in the Guardian again:

“The weblogging community is proving adept at compiling and filtering news in a way never seen in previous conflicts. By comparing and contrasting reports from every news source in the theatre, the war-bloggers’ adage that they will “fact-check your ass” is being played out with enthusiasm from both writer and reader.”

Jon Udell on Publishing a project Weblog …

“If you’re managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative. The serial nature of the Weblog helps you make it the project’s newspaper of record. This kind of storytelling can become a powerful way to focus the attention of a group. The desire to listen to a compelling story and find out what happens next is a deep human instinct.”

While reading the comments on Seb’s Towards structured blogging, I found a link to the following research going on at HP:

Semantic Blogging for Bibliographies: “The central idea is to apply ideas, techniques and tools from the semantic web and apply them to blogging.”

I’ve begun my blog crusade at my new job. So, I’d like to welcome Promit Chakrabarti to the BlogSphere. Do keep an eye on his blog, because Promit is wicked smart — especially in the area of business process analysis … Oh yeah, and of course he knows a thing or two about a “Balanced Scorecard”

Slashdot thread discussing the MSNBC article on Video Blogs.

This quote from the thread from PyroMosh sums it up for me: “Of course Video Blogs aren’t the wave of the future. At least not the near future. It would be high bandwidth instead of low, it wouldn’t be easily searchable or easy to catalog. It’s an order of magnitude harder to do with no tangible benefits except for a little bit of “cool factor”.”

Don Box’s Spoutlet: “I have seen the future and it combines SOAP and spell-checking.” (via DW)

Greg Reinacker has released NewsGator — .Net-based RSS news aggregator for Outlook.

Congratulations Greg! I’ve been using NewsGator since the early betas and my favorite feature has always been its tight integration with Outlook.

However IMHO, it would make the experience complete if you could also post to a blog via the MetaWeblog API or some-such.

Technorati has an interesting new ranking of blogs by number of new links from blogs in the last 24 hours

Article about the use of blogs when reporting on breaking news. (via BlogRoots)

From The Guardian: “The idea is that blogs can help a business present information and develop new ideas. They can bring out and spread the expertise within a company. ”

“using weblogs … to promote company ideas and show off their knowledge.”

So cool! My wife [Catbird.org] has ported her blog over to B2. She’s such a hot geek :-)

Moblogger: “This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start “moblogging”. (via Ben)

However, it seems to me that Abe Fettig HEP Message server is moving in a similar direction, but not really focused on Moblogging.

I’ve been scratching my head for the last few days trying to make sense of all the latest TrackBack derivatives, but thanks to Ben Hammersley I can finally put them all into perspective.

Wonderful job!

Ben Hammersley is testing trackback threading. Should be interesting.

Ben Hammersley talks about FOAF in an article published in the Guardian: “Our online cocktail parties will be instantly mapped by who knows who, and our business relationships might just get a little more transparent (imagine knowing who your colleagues all know – what an interesting change that might be).”

I’ve had my FOAF file for a few weeks now, yet I haven’t made any new connections with it so far. So, feel free to link to my FOAF (http://www.hatch.org/static/foaf.xrdf) I’d love to see it in action.

From: InfoWorld: “A blog is a good delivery format for corporate intelligence data because “it
summarizes important points and puts the information into a system that archives
it as well” (via ScriptingNews)

Clay, “It’s worth trying, though, because the potential win is so large.”

William Gibson has a blog via blogger

sbraford over at Popdex added a LazyWeb post about looking for a way to index Blog content.

I was thinking that perhaps a way to accomplish this would be to upstream rss feeds into Usenet newsgroups, which then get distributed via NNTP to servers around the world.

I believe the RSS / NNTP convergence is already happening with the likes of nntp//rss and Genecast.

As for historical archiving and searching, Google Groups is ideally suited for this purpose.

I received a cool script from Sanjay, which graphs what time of day my blog posts were made for the past 30 days.

Thanks Sanjay!

I just added a Google related links query to individual post on hatch.org (If you’re viewing this as an individual post you should see it below the weblog related links. If not, just click on the title of this post).

It was fairly easy to implement, thanks to Sebastian Bergmann PHP Google SOAP class, which provides an interface to Google’s Web Services API. The class also requires PEAR::SOAP package, which puts it all together.

From Cringely’s 2003 predictions: “And finally, with the continued (and to me totally inexplicable) rise of web logs, someone — maybe Google — will come up with an effective blog search engine to read all that junk for us and extract what we really care about. ”

I would have to agree that “an effective blog search engine” doesn’t necessarily exist yet. Yeah, Yeah, there’s Blogdex, Daypop, etc … and of course the feed aggregators, but perhaps we need something more like Google News, but hive based like Technorati’s Watchlists.

Ben Hammersly creates the fodder feed for the LazyWeb, which IMHO is one of those clever “windshield wiper” ideas that once you see it you’re think, “Man! it’s so obvious, why didn’t someone implement this sooner!” Very ingenious! I hope to contribute!

Sweet! I just configured jpcache to cache and gzip compiled pages on hatch.org. So the b2 powered blog should feel snappier. I need to work out a few of the kinks with respect to expiring the cache when there are new posts and/or comments. Plus, I had to trap the gzip compression function in b2, because jpcache does it as well, but for the most part it seems to be working well.

Well, I’m happy to see that (so far) the Blogger API 2.0 now supports Titles and Categories. However, I suppose this is also the case with the MetaWeblog API via the struct element. Hmm …

I wonder what happens if I Pingback to the search results of my weblog on Technorati? Did I essentially create a watch list? I suppose this will only work if Technorati is using Pingback, which is doubtful, but interesting.

Thanks to Sven Latham of Blogwise for adding me to his growing directory of blogs.

A quote from Dan Bricklin’s post about Small Biz Blogging : “An area where blogs can really shine is in crisis management. In addition to internal communications like normal project management, a public blog can be a major way to conduct effective communication with the public and press. Remember the Tylenol package tampering years back? Frequent forthright communication from a senior executive was crucial for maintaining public trust — it is the “textbook” case.”

Quotes from an article title “Pitching Blogs” on the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) site:

“… blogs are rapidly becoming authoritative news sources. PR professionals should keep this new type of media on their radar screens”

“Publicists have long sought means for reaching highly targeted audiences, including media reps, in order to drive buzz about their clients. With the kind of traffic and targeting that any of the aforementioned sites generate, topic-specific blogs can fit the bill.”

Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post writes about how Weblogs are influencing big media organizations “It’s called influencing the debate, in real time.”

From NY Times Magazine, William Safire traces the etymology of Blog.

Is your Blog HOT or NOT ?

OMG, I actually agree with Cam … a quote from a quote on Blogroots :

“Where I work, much of the company-wide memorandums and communication is done via e-mail, with some e-mails containing numerous attachments that sometimes weigh in at a hefty one-to-two megabytes. It’d be so much better if these e-mails only referenced documents somewhere on the intranet instead of including them as attachments. The intranet page for each department could be a regularly updated weblog of information currently being circulated. This would solve so many problems with disk space and deleted e-mails, it puzzles me that some corporate intranets haven’t adopted these simple concepts for the easy distribution of information. —Cameron Barrett”

Quotes from an InformationWeek article on Blogging’s business value [Thanks John]:

“weblogging will be a grassroots movement in business in the same way that, say, instant messaging has been.”

“… there’s built-in motivation for people to participate in blogging: They get credit for their ideas. A blog is essentially a repository of a person’s intellectual capital–a record of their thoughts, observations, contributions. People may switch employers, but they’ll take with them electronic journals of their best ideas. Blogging is a way to protect the most important brand of all: yourself.”

Quote from an article in the SF Gate: “… the blogging world hope that blogging’s personal, collective, man-or-woman-on-the-street approach to newsgathering might breathe new life into stale mainstream media. Clearly, the hundreds of thousands creating their own blogs, as well as the collective millions who read the blogs, are looking for something they’re not getting in the daily paper.” [more here]

Quote from a review of Traction in InfoWorld “THERE IS STILL NO sure-fire recipe for KM (knowledge management) success, but the ingredients must include the staples of the knowledge worker: e-mail, the Web, and Microsoft Office. With Traction Software’s KM solution, content flowing through all these channels is easily captured by the Java-based Traction Server, which can be best described as an enterprise Weblog system . Documents posted to the server are stored as XML, tagged (in a Web interface) with system-and user-defined terms, made available for full-text and structured search, and served back out as team workspaces, enterprise information portals, or both.” [ more here ]

What it’s like to have a redneck neighbor ? (Thanks Bri)

An interesting Weblog feature comparison Table

From Yahoo News: “MSNBC.com … has launched daily Weblogs devoted to media, politics, technology, international news and entertainment. Each “blog” is created by an MSNBC.com columnist who provides analysis for readers, as well as bookmarks and links to the latest online news in their area of expertise. Visitors to MSNBC.com can read blogs from Eric Alterman, Chris Matthews, Michael Moran, Alan Boyle, and Jan Herman in the Opinions section of the site at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/OP_Front.asp “

World Cup Blog: http://www.worldcupblog.org/

JAF sent this to me and I also saw it on DayPop the other day …

Blogonomics: making a living from blogging – Pressflex.com

“A long essay on the future economics of blogging which theorizes that blogs will become a very attractive medium for advertisers. “The old economics of media he who controls distribution wins the most readers and serves advertisers best will be plowed under by a new economics she who relates best attracts the most valuable audience.” The “self-organized networks” of the blogosphere “offer adventurous advertisers the opportunity to target unique and previously unarticulated demographics,” the writer says.”

Interesting idea.. Kind of like a decentralized Day Pop / Blogdex: “Disenchanted links back to you"

From an MSNBC Article: “Weblogs actually can be used to increase worker efficiency…”

From: In the world of Web logs, talk is cheap “Welcome to Blogistan the Internet-based journalistic medium where no thought goes unpublished, no long-out-of-print book goes unhawked, and no fellow ‘‘blogger,’’ no matter how outre, goes unpraised.” Funny ;-)

“Blogger Pro is for users who are willing to pay for increased reliability, higher performance, new tools, and advanced features and flexibility.” … interesting, check out some of the features …

“Maybe the most exciting advance in CMS over the last two years has been the development of Web log, or blog, technology. While not originally intended as CMS, that’s just where the programs are headed.”

Kevin Werbach mentions us in the latest issue of Release 1.0 (thanks kev!)

Doc Searls, says: “Weblogs will inform old media. They will increasingly be a source of information that traditional media will rely on.”

From: OJR J.D.’s Web Watch: Weblogs: A New Source of News

check it out … this guy wrote a MS Word macro that will post into Manila via XML-RPC …. pretty slick: Word 2 Story Code [thanks john]

“… Winer has accused Microsoft of seizing control of the industry standards-setting process to the benefit of the company’s broad-based Internet initiative, called .Net.”

From: The New York Times

maybe i just like the name, but this “W"eblog is pretty funny (note: the capital “W” :-)

from zdnet: “new wave of user-friendly Web publishing tools”

today on the NPR radio show “the connection“, the topic was about weblogging … my sister and drew called in with some great quotes!!

have you been asked this lately … “what the hell is a weblog?”

i think it was elan who said to me that you should be able to [URL] reference individual entries in a weblog. i certainly agree! it would also be nice if each entry was parsed and tagged with keywords before it’s published so that it can be easily archived into a taxonomy.

wow … my sister’s weblog hollywood tattler is way cooler than mine!

sites to keep and eye on:
+ moreover
+ forwardslash
+ octopus
+ geekboys