Sparkpod: a Mac-based weblog service. Sparkpod is a new weblog service catering to Mac users. It offers pre-designed templates, RSS generation (not sure which version of RSS) and a 60-day trial offer. The service costs $24.99 per year. [Mac Net Journal] 
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Internet Roundtable on Blogging by Lawyers:. Check out the current edition of the LLRX Internet Roundtable, which has a discussion of blogging by Dennis Kennedy, Jerry Lawson, Tom Mighell and others.

After reading one of the panelist's statement about "Google URLs" (i.e. search terms that when entered in Google return a specific webpage as the first hit) Denise Howell pointed out that it was David Weinberger of Cluetrain fame coined the term "Google URL," (and she noted as well that for the time being one of her Google URL's is "Denise.")[Ernie the Attorney] 
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Blogs, Wikis and Tikis -- Oh My !.
I've been a pretty hard core blogger for over a year now.  Not that much more but still I do think I know the blogging scene pretty well.  Now given my overall penchant for blogging, you'll probably be surprised to hear that I've taken the wiki plunge -- and the water is **good**.  Damn good in fact.  While I don't have much more time tonight to go into detail, I can say this:

• TikiWiki is **outstanding**.  There are wiki tools in virtually every language but this one is in PHP, my preference.
• A wiki once you get into it feels like bloody magic.  What's that you say?  Its fully multi-user?  It has a highly granular security model that actually works?  Oh and it can version every single page and go back in time?  Good heavens!  And its easy too...?  Damn!  Where do I sign up?
• The team members (at least Marc Laporte the one I really know) are helpful, friendly and nice.
• I'd strongly recommend a Wiki as a collaborative documentation tool for technical / engineering organizations.  This is how we're using it for Feedster -- we added our business plan to it, our engineering specs*, systems administration notes and more.

Downsides?  Requires a bit of effort to learn.  Not that much -- more switching your mind view 180 degress and then the magic begins.  Documentation is solely in PDF format which made me want to take an axe to my brain.  I ***loathe*** pdf for onscreen content.  No readme file so I had to poke about and scrape to install it since I wasn't downloading a multi-megabyte pdf file just to try it out (note - I volunteered to write the readme file for the next release).

***Strongly Recommended***

*Yes Virginia, Feedster is moving out of "Scott's Wacky Hackomatic Approach to Rapid Internet Development" (SWHARID) and into a much more professional development cycle.  And I certainly can't take all the credit for that. [The FuzzyStuff: aaBlog_Roogle] 
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B.O. Blivion, in an essay on blogging: "I look to the Internet not for the friendships I lack in real life, but for conversation on topics that interest me, the lack of which in everyday life being what draws me into these things." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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Homage to Blogalonia. George Orwell's wartime columns have much in common with today's blogs: They were often trivial and idiosyncratic, but bore within them the seeds of something greater. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Signing comments on blogs. Adrian Holovaty has implemented reserved comment names in his blog, a feature that prevents anyone apart from him from using the names "Adrian", "Adrian H." or "Adrian Holovaty" when posting a comment. François Nonnenmacher suggests extending the idea to allow people to "confirm" their authorship of comments on any blog using a TrackBack... [Artima Web Services Buzz] 
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Jim Coudal: "We have not built a web site in the last year for a client that in some way did not incorporate blogging technology." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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