Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Jim over at Eweek wanes on RSS: RSS is at a crossroads in development…. [T]his is also that time when many of the problems and deficiencies in RSS will be discovered, and enterprise users of RSS will expect these problems to be fixed as soon as possible. If the developers and caretakers of RSS are […]

Jeremy C. Wright sells Ensight, his blog about business and tech for a cool $15,000: (via BusinessPundit) As far as I’m aware, Ensight’ll be the first blog to be sold for anything beyond the domain name’s value (a couple of hundred bucks typically). It’ll be the first blog to be sold as and bought as […]

Concetric Blog argues: Blogging is driven by personal brand: authority and trust. This cannot be manufactured, and cannot be imparted to newbies just by affixing a media brand to them…. [L]et your product people openly discuss plans and goals. Engender a community of involved and smart users — they will provide better customer support than […]

Associated Press on published authors keeping blogs: (via CorporateBloggingBlog) Author blogs are also the latest reminder of how times have changed since writers simply wrote their books and let the publishers and the work itself speak for them. Now, many authors arrange their own tours, maintain Web sites, send e-mail newsletters and, in the case […]

Associated Press on Wikis Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online: Not everything maps that well to chronological discussions. How to do something, for instance, is the same now as next week and three years from now. If it’s in an e-mail from three years ago, I’m not going to remember that or find it. But editing a Wiki […]

Scoble’s got some tips on getting your blog discovered, others find them a little manipulative (call the wahh-mbulance): How your blog will get discovered

Bill hits the nail on the head: Corporate culture as it’s manifest in most companies is so profoundly the opposite of being straight forward, direct and plain speaking that even when people within that world make a genuine attempt to be direct and honest, they can’t. They simply don’t know how. They have a very […]

I love this. Jason over at Weblogs, Inc. goes off on faux blogs. The first three items are essential, the last two are common. Now, you don’t have all five of these items to be a blog, you can have three or four and still be a blog in my mind, but if you have […]

The International Olympics Committee missed a big one this time around. You may have noticed the blackout on weblogs covering the Olympics – oh, there’s lots of people talking about the Olympics. But none of the atheletes are allowed to share their experiences online. The International Olympic Committee is barring competitors, as well as coaches, […]

D.C.-based happy hooker Jessica Cutler’s sexblog about her wild times with politicans was highly publicized a few months ago – on her birthday. The tough-minded whore with a heart of cash is back with a book deal and an upcoming pictorial in Playboy. Yes, I’m just jealous.