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”.”