Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Much ado: Steve Rubel’s post in which he explains his reason for rejecting a trackback from Jeremy Pepper has produced a blizzard of comments-26, along with three trackbacks, at last count.

Rep. Sue Myrick and other well-known cancer survivors have begun writing blogs about their bouts with the disease for the Web site Yahoo! Health. Among the other contributors to “Blog for Hope”: actress Fran Drescher (uterine cancer), TV reporter Sam Donaldson (melanoma), and comic actor Tom Green (testicular cancer).

As Clarice Starling would say: Why don’t you point that hah-parred perception at yerself? Maybe yer afraid to. The network is starting its own blog, Public Eye, that will wade into controversies over how CBS covers the news. Vaughn Ververs, editor of the well-known Washington political blog The Hotline, was hired to become the internal […]

(via Darren) Rob Hof over at Business Week notices: It’s still a mystery to me why some of my blog posts get a lot of comments, while others seem to get lost in the ether. Lately, though, I have noticed one pattern: When I ask for help, I get it.

PDF files on the web are sometimes annoying and very often unnecessary. But when they aren’t either of those things, we need to make them accessible for the same reasons we make other web content accessible.

From Dave: SEO Book’s Aaron Wall was sued earlier this week by Traffic-Power.com for alleged inaccuracies and lies appearing in comments other people have left on his blog. If this case goes to trial, it’ll set an important precedent in the blogging community and the Internet at large, answering a critical question, particularly for business […]

As a Class 5 hurricane bears down on the Gulf of Mexico, bloggers jump at the chance to capture the moment. Track the story on Technorati, and Flickr. Hope everybody is safe.

Up and coming blog network BlogLogic is doubling their offerings to ten blogs. Great news, Paul!

But lawyers see possible legal pitfalls for companies looking to join the blogging phenomenon. What, for instance, would happen if someone at a publicly traded company unwittingly divulged confidential financial information or a trademark secret on one of these Web diaries? Isn’t that why we have non-disclosure agreements? Do companies really not trust their employees […]

MyPodcasts.Net has launched a new podcast and video podcast hosting service. Hosting plans start as low as $2.00 per month and a free 30 day trial is available. Every account comes with an embedded flash streaming audio/video player that plays your mp3 or flash video content through your index page to allow visitors to listen […]