"Independent Days"
Part 1: On Mens Hairpieces and Web Design [Daypop Top 40] 
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The Mythical Quest , an old exhibition at the British Library. 'Throughout the world, tales have always been told of heroes and heroines embarking on perilous quests in search of lost loved ones, the secret of immortality, earthly paradise or simply great riches. Many of these stories have elements in common, such as clashes with monsters, battles with the elements, interventions by the gods and tests of moral character, mental cunning and physical strength. These tales have been expressed in songs, literature, art and dance for thousands of years, and are still being reinterpreted today in books, comic strips, interactive games and adventure films.'
More British Library exhibits here, from early Indian photography to the secret life of maps.
Examples of mythical quests :- Monkey: Journey to the West (another version here, not to mention the TV series); the Ramayana (and the Ramakian, the Thai version); Cupid and Psyche at the Classics Pages (subject of a previous thread); the Holy Grail (more at the Catholic Enyclopaedia); the journey of Alexander the Great; Pilgrim's Progress and John Bunyan; the world of Dante and a map of Hell. [MetaFilter] 
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"Winds of Change.NET: July 9 Carnival of the Liberties" [Daypop Top 40] 
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"blogosphere.us" [Daypop Top 40] 
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Outsider Blogs Paint Bosnian Life. Interns working in Bosnia are using their blog journals to call attention to Bosnian families with stories of everyday experiences. The interns are with Bosfam, an advocacy organization supporting displaced Bosnian women and refugees. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 
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Shared transcripts for the masses.

Blogs in the Workplace.

An NY Times article on weblogs in business that somehow missed Socialtext ;-(

..."People are starting to use Web logs to archive data that would have otherwise been lost," Mr. Tang said. He noted that much of the company's internal communications had been via instant messaging [~] and was lost as soon as the correspondents closed their chat windows. Now, though, employees are starting to post transcripts of relevant discussions on the Web logs, he said.

"It's not just making life more convenient," Mr. Tang said, "but actually giving us something new we didn't have before."

[via Scripting News]

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]

This would seem to support the argument for IM-to-blog as a useful publishing metaphor.  Although I wonder how well it can be made to work in practice:  I can think of few IM conversations that I would want to appear on a blog unedited.  Perhaps there is a middle-step.

An interesting approach to this, for me, would be the idea of a shared transcript editor.  Roughly what I have in mind is a 3rd participant in the conversation (a bot of some kind) which records what is said.  When the conversation is over it sends (via IM) both participants a link to a shared transcript editing page.  Once the participants have agreed the final transcript it then blogs it to both their weblogs.

Of course all of this sounds like it would work much more seamlessly as a Groove application.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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Needle in a Haystack.

Haystack. Haystack, the universal information client. Errr, help. This is looking very much like what I need, but wrapping it up in a client side only app is not going to work. Mind you, after five years of writing web apps, I can honestly understand why they went with a client side app. Writing web apps is a PITA. Anyways, I must read the papers, the docs, and download this sucker. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla]

This looks interesting.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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iteople.com. iteople.com is a brand-new “directory for organizing blogs by people.” It’s a companion to itown.com and itopik.com. [ranchero.com] 
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Switcherooting.

Ubergeek's latest: Hairy Blogger and the Flying Matrix.

I want to see a "Swith to Blogging" to match Ubergeek's "Switch to Linux", "Switch to Mac" and "IntelliToast".

Bonus link: My interview with Ubergeek at Linux Journal.

[The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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Justin Hall, in reporting on the First International Moblogging Conference held in Tokyo the other day: "All the fun of posting pictures from phones is a polite rehearsal for the incredible social upheaval that moblogging could bring or join." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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Wrappers, injectors, and writing tools. I gather that this way of representing my RSS feed is ready to declare victory over this way. Wake me up when it's over. At the end of the day, any XML metadata wrapper around the content of our blog entries will do the job, and it's trivial to transform one flavor of wrapper to another. If there were no legacy to consider, it'd be a toss-up as to which I'd prefer. Since there is a legacy, I'd rather preserve it, but that's a complicated matter about which too much has been said, and I'm only one of many voices. ... [Jon's Radio] 
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Feed validator. There's a new RSS validator in town. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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