Universal Nature of Blog Organization.
Blogger News
Weblogs can be more than just personal journals. While we can say that weblogs turn people into webpages, we do not need to limit weblogs to personal journals. New services being planned for a restaurant display the versatility of weblog organization. We probably are thinking too narrowly if we think that blogs are only ever going to be used as personal journals. The reverse chronological sequencing, coupled with potentially unlimited number of postings and automatic archiving can be applied to all manner of time sensitive data. [Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocHeadlines]

Twenty-four Hours of Journalism About Blogging.
Blogger News
This time last year Google was all the rage. Now, this year blogging is the focus of stories from mainstream news sources. You know it is big stuff in the media when the word "blog" or "blogging" is added in passing just to show-off the writer's up-to-dateness. Here is a review of the latest mainstream articles on blogging. Do many of them really get it? We look down the list of articles on Google News this afternoon and wonder at the duplication, the miss readings and the squealing of the mainstream journos creating as much verbiage as bloggers and getting it wrong some of the time. Mainstream News and blogging, you will see by the time you get to the end of this list are not separated by much! [Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocHeadlines]

Google Starts Self-Service for Content Ads. AdSense allows small publishers to sign up on their own to carry Google's content-targeted listings. [internetnews.com: Internet Advertising Report]

Get a preview of what Google would serve on your site here -- http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000984.

 

Search Players Agree on Industry Challenges. Search companies' hot topics include privacy, paid inclusion, relevance and geo-targeting. [internetnews.com: Internet Advertising Report]

Of Blogs, Bloggers, and Blawgs. Blogs are picking up as the new way to be read on the Internet. Get your primer on how Blogs work, the minds behind them, and how you can take advantage of using Blogs in your firm. [Law Practice Today Headlines]

Interview with the Bloggers. Jim interviews Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell, two law bloggers on the forefront of this new trend, on why they got started, and where they see blogs in the future of law. [Law Practice Today Headlines]

Google Goofin' -- Searching for "The" [ResearchBuzz]

"More Spam" Bill Makes Progress. Washington Post: Anti-Spam Bill Gains In Senate. The bill was quickly endorsed by major providers of e-mail accounts, including Microsoft... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Photo management.

Adventures in Photo Publishing. After a few days of laborious searching, I have determined one thing: there is no good way to publish your photos on the Web. But there are several sub-optimal ways. I finally settled on Fotki, but this is only a temporary measure. [kuro5hin.org]

[Audioblog/Mobileblogging News]

Seems like the natives are still uphappy with the state of things. 

Every so often I go out and try the latest spate of photo albums, media management tools.  Some of the stuff PreClick is pretty cool and especially like the licensing foundation they're building.  But these 'off-the-shelf' systems out there  just suck.

[Marc's Voice]

Forum view of blog posts. Blog -> BBS: WebDawn reverses the pattern. Another fusion of the patterns of weblogs and BBSes, this time in reverse. Mark Carey has created a new view of his Web Dawn weblog, reconfigured in BBS format:

Forum View provides an alternative view to the blog, giving a more accurate view of the conversations taking place. With the more recently active conversations listed on top, you can quickly get a sense of which entries have generated discussion - without scrolling to the bottom of each entry to see the number of comments.

Here's the forum view itself. [Corante: Social Software]

Coolio - another GREAT example of what ThreadsML will do.  :-)

[Marc's Voice]

Try Before You Sell. Want to see what ads AdSense thinks are relevant to your page? Just enter its URL:  [Google Weblog]

Blogs Rising: An Important New Web Trend with Law Marketing Potential

Legal marketers should take note of a new category of Web service application that is creating a surge in independent Web publishing and opening up new opportunities for reaching niche audiences.

The most popular blogs are run by authors whose pontificating narrows in on a specific topic for which they are particularly passionate or knowledgeable - or both. Timely and rich in links to other related resources, these self-published Web sites are gaining popularity, credibility and visibility as reliable information sources.

Blogs, Wikis and Tikis -- Oh My !.

Blogs, Wikis and Tikis -- Oh My !

I've been a pretty hard core blogger for over a year now.  Not that much more but still I do think I know the blogging scene pretty well.  Now given my overall penchant for blogging, you'll probably be surprised to hear that I've taken the wiki plunge -- and the water is **good**.  Damn good in fact.  While I don't have much more time tonight to go into detail, I can say this:

• TikiWiki is **outstanding**.  There are wiki tools in virtually every language but this one is in PHP, my preference.
• A wiki once you get into it feels like bloody magic.  What's that you say?  Its fully multi-user?  It has a highly granular security model that actually works?  Oh and it can version every single page and go back in time?  Good heavens!  And its easy too...?  Damn!  Where do I sign up?
• The team members (at least Marc Laporte the one I really know) are helpful, friendly and nice.
• I'd strongly recommend a Wiki as a collaborative documentation tool for technical / engineering organizations.  This is how we're using it for Feedster -- we added our business plan to it, our engineering specs*, systems administration notes and more.

Downsides?  Requires a bit of effort to learn.  Not that much -- more switching your mind view 180 degress and then the magic begins.  Documentation is solely in PDF format which made me want to take an axe to my brain.  I ***loathe*** pdf for onscreen content.  No readme file so I had to poke about and scrape to install it since I wasn't downloading a multi-megabyte pdf file just to try it out (note - I volunteered to write the readme file for the next release). 

***Strongly Recommended***

*Yes Virginia, Feedster is moving out of "Scott's Wacky Hackomatic Approach to Rapid Internet Development" (SWHARID) and into a much more professional development cycle.  And I certainly can't take all the credit for that.

[The FuzzyBlog!]

Glenn Reynolds enters the What Is A Weblog discussion. [Scripting News]

Meg Hourihan on WMAWAW.

Meg read my What Makes A Weblog A Weblog essay, and sent an email (from Copenhagen) explaining that I missed the fundamental difference between weblogs and everything else.

She says: "The biggest thing I keep stressing, which I think is the fundamental difference: posts vs pages. It's about posts, chunks of content, not pages, which is what wikis are, and it's the content that Vignette and Interwoven output. They treat the chunks of content as pages, and they don't see the more discrete bits that are the posts." [Scripting News]