Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Everything old is new again. The grand-daddy of blogging tools is back with a vengeance. After being acquired by Google they have just launched their new look and feel – a great interface that is super-friendly and will only mean more people writing more blogs. And that’s a good thing! The Great Blogger Relaunch

You have probably seens a website floating around on the blogs lately called Subservient Chicken featuring an apparently live webcam of a guy in a chicken suit.

Jay Rosen’s prep reading for his presentation at BloggerCon II:

Jeff created a wiki to support his presentation at BloggerCon II on business blogging.

Nick at Marketing Profs has guidelines for enterprise blogging: 2. Be an unmatched resource.Politicians have perfected the art of the “trial balloon.” An idea is leaked, and the resultant reaction signals whether it’s politically safe to proceed. Use your blog to provide heads-up information unavailable elsewhere, like a forthcoming product or marketing blitz. Any feedback […]

Blog or weblog? Eszter breaks it down into a graph. Blog wins.

Well-read political blogger Markos made a rather callous comment about the violence in Fallujah in Iraq. The comment was immediately picked up, ripped up, sliced, diced and before it was all over, opposing webloggers had ganged up on him and his advertisers had dumped him and the policial blogging scene was in a tight little […]

While bloggers love to consider themselves a force of media, often times they are at least able to keep a story alive while the media decides if they are going to investigate it or not. Consider the story of uber-bigot Trent Lott.

You know John Gray of Mars/Venus/1950s-sex-roles fame? Turns out his Ph.D. is a little less than accredted and probably a mail-order degree (along with his ex-wife Barbara deAngelis’s credentials) and the only accredited about the guy’s CV is his high school degree. Irish blogger Gavin found this expose and concluded that "John Gray, is a […]

The Economist admits that maybe there’s something to this blogging thing after all: [Blogging and wiki tech company] Socialtext takes the wiki concept and adds to it some corporate bullet-proofing. It can be used to create a conventional blog, yes, but more importantly it tracks different versions of documents, so that people working on a […]