Weblogging is merging with...?. Phil Wolf comments on my earlier note about the number of technologies one can cope with predictions about merging between e-mail and blogging clients. As usual, it worth reading as a whole, so just a short teaser:

A prediction:

The vendors who dominate messaging will shape blogging. AOL and Microsoft have fat clients, web clients, and chat clients. Watch them:

1. Bring blogging into their messaging family.
2. Absorb blogging user and group digital IDs into their identity mechanisms.
3. Offer faceted blogs (everyone sees just what they're intended to see and not what they don't want to see) using digital ID. You're not part of their ID world? No facets.
4. Push blogging into all their customer touch points (voice, SMS/iMode, handhelds, desktop software, etc.)
5. Fold blogging community servers (the Technoratis and Popdexes) into email and search servers.
6. Offer tools for good citizenship (i.e. censorship, filtering) via community servers.

I'm not recommending this, mind you. I just have a hard time imagining a sustainable alternative scenario.

See also Corante: Social software - More on merging IM and Blogging

[Mathemagenic] 
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Die Warteschlange wartet auf das ewige Leben. In der Zwischenzeit könnt Ihr ja einfach mal vorbeisurfen... Allerschärfstes Willkommen! [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Die Flaschenpost ist ein Gemeinschaftsweblog über Wein, nur Wein und nichts anderes. Allerschärfstes Willkommen! [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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iteople.com beckons biobloggers
The iteople.com directory is now in play this evening.

And guess who the first bioblog listing is?    Mr. Blog Himself, Dave Winer. [Harvey Kirkpatrick: itopik.com News] 
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Westminster blogger hits the spot. Labour MP Tom Watson becomes an internet hit after urging young people to "cut it with the bling bling". [BBC News | Technology | World Edition] 
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"hamburg.blogplan.de" [Daypop Top 40] 
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TrackBack for Radio. You've got ping . Third-party TrackBack in Radio . markpasc.org Matt Mower's Python TrackBack server for Radio (and ACLs i... [thomas n. burg | randgänge] 
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Mark Glaser: "Putting a word such as 'Weblog,' 'blog' or 'blogger' into your news story's headline seems to do strange things to people. First, every Weblog known to humanity has to link to your story. (Ha, you said it!) Then, you find your story atop the Popdex popularity index. Finally, you have people drawing conclusions that have nothing to do with your story." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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The Crooked Timber crew: "The bringing of a new blog before the public is a practice now so common as scarce to need an apology. Nevertheless, such lists, assemblages, diaries, complaints, lamentations, polemics and records of triumph and disaster are now so common and so diverse that new entrants into the field must perforce struggle to be noticed. " [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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Simon Phipps' response, as reported by David Weinberger, to Dan Gillmor's question "What are the unitended consequences of weblogging?": "I know everything bad Dave Winer has ever said about anyone." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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The Guardian cites the generic blogger as one of the 100 most influential voices in media in the UK: "Underestimate their power at your peril. Just ask former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines... Expect more scalps to follow." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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John Dowdell follows up on Dave Winer's comments about overactive aggregators: "If every web user has their own aggregator, then by default they're making many many net requests that they will never use, and the actual people who [cause] these extra costs will not be the people who pay the cost." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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How to Use Feedster's Trusted Search Feature. This post is dedicated to Ross Mayfield from Social Text. Ross was talking to me last night about Micah Alpern's "Trusted Search" concept which has actually been in Feedster for some time but is not widely used.

The idea here is that I don't want to search everything in Feedster but just the blogs I read i.e. the ones I search. This relies on you having an OPML file of the blogs that you read. This is produced by some but not all news aggregators. For example Radio produces one that is always stored in the location /blog/gems/mySubscriptions.opml. Feedster has the ability to read your opml file from any URL and then use to restrict your search.

Here's how to do this:

1. Go to Feedster's Advanced Search page
2. In the OPML field add the url to your OPML. Here's the url to Ross' OPML: http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/gems/mySubscriptions.opml
3. In the Search field add what you want to find (use wiki for example).
4. Here's the result (305 results).
5. If you didn't use the OPML then here's the result (5,000+ hits)

Comments? [SuperBlog - Feedster Goes to SuperNova !!!] 
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