Feedsterlicious !
If you track our Feedster Stats page at all (and yeah its slow to display and I know I need to make a cached version) then you'll see something interesting: 160,000 + feeds now.  That's right. Last night we added every Live Journal user to Feedster which doubled our database size. My hat's definitely tipped to Francois whose crawler architecture happily crawled 1,500,000 posts in 12 hours.  Nice job man! Jon Thompson nicely pointed out to me that while we might have implemented Sherlock support, we made it hard to find. Thanks man. Done! Now its linked to from the home page until it finds a permanent home.
[The FuzzyStuff: Feedster] 
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Nick Finck: The Why and How of Blogging
This a very good introduction into blogging by Nick Finck, the maker of Digital Web Magazine... [hebig.org/blog] 
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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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Custom RSS Feeds
from Adrian Holvaty. [Scripting News] 
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Chris Lydon interviews Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds
[Scripting News] 
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Chris Lydon's weblog for the ears DaveNet: [ Scripting News] 
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Elaine Frankonis: on women and blogging
in an article in the Chicago Tribune: "From politics to partying, from men to menopause, from feminism to family--women Webloggers seem more comfortable in viewing their personal lives in a larger, cultural context and also in looking at global issues from a very personal point of view."

Katherine Murray, in the same article: "You have the ability to be seen for who you are and have a connection with someone that has nothing to do with the kind of car you drive. It's very freeing." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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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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Phases of social networking
Rob describes a pattern of social insertion - first an orgy of discovery and furious networking, then a discernment phase where the finite capacity for close relationships operates a selection; and finally a consolidation phase. Sounds about right. I think some people have a heavier churn rate for their inside network, while others form a much more stable net. I wonder if that affects their ability to innovate and adapt.

Tired of blogging?  if they are tired of blogging after a year. I too seem to have hit a one year wall. I want to shrink my blogging world. Why? [...] [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog]

[Seb's Open Research] 
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The International Telecommunications Union has a weblog.
[John Robb's Weblog] 
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