Marc Canter on AOL's blog format: "I've been waiting for this for a LONG time!  Please notice that there's a clear place - on the main journal page - which describes: Name, Occupation, Location.  Thus is Digital Identity born..." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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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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why blogging? just publish and forget?. some good observation: first noise reduction and ego maintenance Blogs have been compared to newsgroups. It is interesting. In newsgroups there is no "uber" member. Everyone is equal. At first that seems great - however it makes it hard for people to filter out the noise. In effect, a blog gives me control over the "major" content of my... [Artima Web Services Buzz] 
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Moblogging, photobloging from Comic-Con in San Diego. Some interesting live photoblogging and narrative updates from folks attending the Comic-Con in San Diego this week. I am not there, but wish I was. Here's one, by way of Warren Ellis; here is a collective blog project created by the guys at textamerica (empty now, they just built it yesterday). Both of the above are also offered in a zesty RSS flavor for easy syndication. The San Diego Union-Tribune is blogging now, and there are some Comic-Con related entries on their Sci-fi/comics blog "Disembodied Brains." Wil Wheaton says he'll be audio blogging from the convention. Got more live-blogging links? Post them here: Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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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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AOL-Weblogs in Betaversion. Moe ("Plastic Thinking") hat die AOL-Weblogs gefunden [wir berichteten]:

»Anscheinend sind die AOL-Weblogs (dort heissen sie Journals) in die öffentliche beta gegangen: http://beta.hometown.aol.com/. Die Weblogs sehen auf den ersten Blick so von der technischen Form her ganz ordentlich aus: PermaLinks, RSS 2.0 usw. Ein bisschen seltsam ist allerdings, dass es zwar eine Kommentarfunktion gibt, man allerdings einen AOL-Login haben muss um kommentieren zu dürfen. Ich bin... [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 
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Blogplan-Wahn. Nach Hamburger und Münchener und Frankfurter Bloggerplänen heute: der Entenhausener Blogplan. Haltestelle Kolloseum bitte klicken. Die spinnen, die Blogger! [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 
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Fox Searchlight Pictures launches movie PR blog. Via LA Observed:

Fox Searchlight Pictures, the 20th-Century Fox unit behind the Internet marketing hit 28 Days Later, launched a Blogspot site over the weekend. The blog is "covering" media reports friendly to the picture and the company, reporting on favorable box office numbers and doing promos for upcoming films. The lead item right now is praise for Ron Grover's Business Week column on the clever marketing of 28 Days. First they turned Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News... (Tip from Movie City News)

permalink to LA Observed post; Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Howard Dean -- Internetstar der US-Präsidentschaftsbewerber [heise online news]

As usual things take a little longer to appear on the german scene...

If you don't understand german, do take the time to translate (as far from perfect as it may be) the comments to this one. They promise to reveal much of the prevailing attitude toward the US... 
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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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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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Das breitet sich ja aus.... Blogger! Nie mehr planlos in Frankfurt und um Frankfurt und um Frankfurt herum! [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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