Thanks Google!
Where have I been or is this fairly recent? Google seems to be hitting weblogs.com pretty regularly... wonder how often... every few minutes... every hour?
I can now see with time and date stamp when my ping from iteople.com News, etc.. hits via Google without scrolling down the weblogs.com list (which is not geting old... Dave, is there a new UI idea vs. the scrolling list?).

Seems it only took Google a day or so to pick up on iteople's existence. Thanks Google!

And thanks to Brent of Ranchero (and the famous birthday wife: Yes, Sheila we're still celebrating your birthday here!) Software, creators of the spaztacious newsreader, NetNewsWire for an iteople.com mention.

And by the way, is there a way for Radio to tell me that someone has commented on my blogs? [Harvey Kirkpatrick: itopik.com News] 
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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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Bioblogging... well, sort'a
Seems the entries coming in to iteople.com for the iteople directory are folks who just want their directory seen by.. you guess, yep, their name. Their blog really isn't about anyone as a bioblog like here.
Does the phrase "law of unintended consequences" kinda grab ya? What do you think? Should we list folks who are blogging about whatever by name or limit it to folks who are writing about someone else? Or just live and let live... bioblog or autobioblog?

A nice reply today from Dave Sifry of Technorati... you gotta love looking up your blog on the Tech Cosmos.

And a chat over when to send out the post feeds for the directory trilogy (iteople, itown, & itopik) with Scott Johnson, co-founder of Feedster. Both very helpful directories for bloggers and growing bigger daily. [Harvey Kirkpatrick: itopik.com News] 
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Purple as in the number.

Oxen bloxsom purple communities. EE Kim speaks!.

Eugene Kim has started blogging: EEK Speaks.

Eugene and his partner, Chris Dent (who blogs at Glacial Erratics), of Blue Oxen Associates, both have PurpleNumbers on their blogs, where each paragraph has its own fragment permalink.

Eugene wrote a plugin for his bloxsom blog, and Chris is generating his in Moveable Type. Chis also sends these paragraph level links out in one of his RSS 2.0 feeds.

PurpleNumbers are something totally good for the iCite net, which likes links to content at as fine a granularity as interesting, like a paragraph.

[the iCite net development blog]

I had the pleasure to meet Gene during Planetwork conference.  Somehow they convinced Pierre Omidyar to fund them! 

[Marc's Voice]

I have a question about PurpleNumbers which is:

• What happens when the paragraph gets edited?

Does it get a new purple number?  If so, where does the old purple number go?  If not, how do you find out that the paragraph you are linking to is no longer the paragraph you thought you were linking to?

 

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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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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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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