Big News! New Google Operator
(Google Weblog) [Daypop Top 40] 
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Bye-bye, Miss Blogistan Pie
Radio Free Blogistan reinvents "American Pie," and inspires this competition. Crank up the karaoke and step away from the laptop. Link, Discuss (Thanks, RCB) [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Mirror gets blogging
Back from sabbatical today, and catching up on my reading - and spam deletion. And it's good to see this blogging lark is catching on around Fleet Street. After the Times' tentative steps into the blogosphere earlier this month (sorry - they don't do a free archive), the Daily Mirror is getting in on the act with the launch of their iBlog, a tech blog which replaces the now-discontinued Amy's I column in the paper. "Nobody else does it", claimed the Mirror's new internet editor, Steve Purcell, in the Press Gazette the other day. Perhaps we should introduce him to that wonder of the blogosphere, Stephen Pollard, a freelance political journalist who spoke at last month's VoxPolitics event at the House of Commons. He managed to boast - more than once - that he was the only national newspaper hack to have a weblog, while sitting in a room with quite a few... national newspaper hacks with blogs. All in all, I'm sure the arrival of us national newspaper scribes is going to do wonders for the blogosphere's notoriously lax standards of accuracy. Oh yes. [onlineblog.com] 
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Trillian 2.0, webEdit & Jabber
I'm using the new Trillian 2.0 beta.  So far it seems stable (just like 1.0), not too different - although I love the new tonal sound scheme.  What I was really waiting for was the Jabber support.  This works seamlessly (even though it's implemented as a plug-in) and has allowed me to develop a new application.

Frontier has a webservice based code editing environment.  You can check objects out of the server, edit, then check them back in.  Although there is no version control it is a convenient way to edit server code.  However one of the issues is working out who is doing what.  I thought about a web page, or an RSS feed, but it actually seemed like a nice IM application.

Since Dave, Jake, Lawrence, and Jeremy had already done the work this was as easy as adding a call-back to the Frontier webEdit code that said tcp.im.send( message ) and Voila!  Instant notifications about who is working on what code.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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New Law Blogs Ahoy!!!
Robert Unterberger, a lawyer and legal writing instructor, has started a bevy of blogs: Law Student Writing Blog, Delaware Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, and Pennsylvannia Personal Injury Blog.   I'm guessing that Robert probably is a personal injury lawyer.  I'm also guessing that he is taking advantage of the newly relaxed FCC rules that allow for concentrated ownership of media.

Also, spotted on the horizon is a blog by C.E. Petit (also a practicing attorney) called Scrivener's Error.  His focus is on law and publishing from the author's often sarcastic perspective.

Steph over at BlueBlanket has a new blawg called The Blawg Review that focuses on new developments in academia, such as new law journal articles.

Finally, James Carruth is a 2L at BYU Law School and he has a blog that he'd like ya'll to know about.  Enjoy!

[Ernie the Attorney] 
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Remember Me, Movable Type
By making it easier for people to comment on your blog, more people will. [Kalsey Consulting Group :: Measure Twice] 
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Trackback for Radio

RE: the multiple ping post to mamamusings:

I must apologise to Jake - the problem would seem to have been at my end.

Just a day earlier, I'd installed Mark Paschal's Kit .... activating it and meaning to check it out later. Upon seeing the Userland release of trackback, I naturally went ahead and fired away the first ping posts.

Now Kit employs an earlier implimentation of trackback which, I assume, running independantly from that of Userland, must have been responsible for the multiple pings.

I've since disabled Kit and tested successfully on Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

So, lesson learnt... but not without the negative feedback, especially from a high profile blogger like Liz, for which I do apologise.

Thanks for the hard work, Jake - it actually works like a charm.

 
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Medlogs
A weblog aggregator for medical weblogs Medserve, another aggregator, has medical RSS and scroll boxes available. [John Robb's Weblog] 
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Add a 'Blogs I Read' Search to Your Site
as seen on McGee's Musings

Another feature to look into.

 
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Matt Round's weblog:
another adjectiveanimal weblog....has got to be one of the most superlativedang blog designs out there.

Well, it gets my vote - right down to the blog ...er, bogroll!

Good value! 
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