RSS 2.0 under new ownership. Dave Winer has transferred the copyright of the RSS 2.0 specification to Harvard's Berkman Center and formed an advisory board with Brent Simmons and Jon Udell to maintain the spec, promote the format, and chart its future development.

As someone who has been working on a new RSS 2.0 spec at SSF-DEV, I'm glad to see it moving to a community development model. There are a lot of implementors and users who are eager to participate, as evidenced by the 39 people who have joined SSF-DEV in the last month. [Workbench] 
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David Galbraith on Technorati's new feature: "Over the longer term, this is perhaps as ground breaking as what weblogs have done for web publishing and ultimately will leverage the weblog model to its full potential..." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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CultureBlogging.

The Arts Journal has launched a group of blogs (About Last Night - Terry Teachout on Arts in New York City, Artful Manager - Andrew Taylor on the business of art & culture, and Seeing Things - Todi Tobias on dance) by seeking out some of their favorite culture writers and getting them set up to blog.  One of the biggest complaints about the blogosphere is the quality of content that is beging created.  While creating a blog surely isn't rocket science, it is far from simple for someone who is a complete computer-phobe.

We're all aware of the tendency of technology periodicals to launch blogs and the quality of their work has had a great effect on the timeliness and interactivity of their work.  At the same time traditional news media has had a tendency to shut down blogging by their journalists in some kind of un-enlightened intellectual property crackdown.  But there is a huge world of opinion and knowledge that is under-represented at best in the blogosphere.  AOL will be bringing blogs to the masses, this eternal September will be mitigated by Google, technorati and other gestaltic tools to some extent, but who is bringing interesting voices into the conversation.

Dave Winer is blog-enabling Harvard and it seems that some sort of coordination of efforts might help various blogophiles connect with voices that are currently under-represented and help get them running.  With all the chirpiness over various techy blog standards, this is something that everyone who wants to see blogs matter shold be able to get behind.

How might we organize efforts to broaden the culture of the blogosphere - dicuss

[Corante: Amateur Hour] 
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Online Expert: More Newspaper Blogs, Please. Michelle Nicolosi of the Online Journalism Review says mroe reporters should do blogs. "Working on them should be optional --... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Hugh Hewitt on newspapers : "[They] refuse to read the map that is in front of their noses. âo[oe] The wise editor would instead allow the battle of the blogs to throw up champions and then ink them to multiyear commentary deals." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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HasidicRebel. The Hasidic Rebel. A blogger from inside the Hasidic community provides some insight into a lifestyle few are familiar with. [MetaFilter] 
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Dear Mr. President:. The White House has a new system for email from the public. Dashing off a rant, a rave or a question to president@whitehouse.gov won't cut it anymore. Now it takes a maze of forms and clicks and filters. The first question: is this a supportive message or a differing opinion? Then you have to pick your topic from various menu lists. And list a name and address and email. And reply to an automated message making sure it's really your email. White House tech guy tells the NYTimes: "When it comes to a Web site, it's a bit like a movie. Some will say it's a tour de force; some will say it fell flat." Fun Fact: all emails are saved and must be publicly disclosed in 12 years. [MetaFilter] 
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HELP!blog. From the creators of itown, itopik, and iteople, the HELP!blog is a “simple way to connect people who have a need with people who can give some help.” [ranchero.com] 
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