New weblog community built around GPS
The Redtail Canyon Geo-Community combines weblogging with an atlas, photo albums, search engine, and travel guide.

The site, created by developers David and Yuko Knight in Tokyo, encourages the publication of weblog entries tied to a particular geographic location by GPS coordinates, such as this item on Aral Sea destruction. Entries can be viewed by navigating maps like this U.S. East Coast view, which become satellite images as you click empty spots to zoom in.

Here's a nice shot of the Castillo De San Marcos in Saint Augustine. [Workbench] 
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Documenting blogger behavior
A pretentious and presumptuous attempt to document what bloggers have learned, without any formal instruction, to do every day...And then a description of what's needed to make blogs a medium for real conversation."

Do read the whole thing - it's worth it. [Seb's Open Research] 
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Chris Lydon interviews Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds
[Scripting News] 
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Secrets of Breakout Blogs
by Dave Pollard [The Scobleizer Weblog] 
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Das Blog
A tool that Clemens Vasters is working on... [The Scobleizer Weblog] 
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The International Telecommunications Union has a weblog.
[John Robb's Weblog] 
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There is no cheap metadata
In his series of articles on search, Tim Bray explores the value of metadata but also its cost - noting that "There is no cheap metadata." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Onfocus - Amazon RSS feeds
"Several people have mentioned that it would be nice to show the newest products in the Amazon RSS feeds rather than the top-selling products. There's a quick hack to make this happen." [Scripting News] 
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