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Arnold, Howard terminating the old politics =The Hill.com=
"If anyone had told me a month ago that the two most exciting politicians in America this summer would be a muscle-bound movie actor with an Austrian accent and the ex-governor of the second-most sparsely populated state in the nation, I'd have asked them what they were smoking... The vehicle for Dean's startling surge was a new social software called the blog, which few politicians or pundits had heard of this time last year. Cyber-speak for "weblog," blogs are a kind of online diary for those who want to share their thoughts on everything from home tutoring to alien abductions."

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Shelley Powers: Weblogging for Poets - four-part series published: An excellent consecution of epistles on the importance of being earnest in your intention to remain "linkable" as you move from one form of weblogging to another (i.e. blogger to movable type...)

PRESS RELEASE ( PR Web): "Tipic, Inc. adds instant messaging to blogs: MOTIME.COM, the first blogging platform with instant messaging, lets ISP's, telecoms and portals to increase traffic, stickiness and revenues."

statesman.com: "Adam Weinroth has built one of the busiest Web sites in Austin. But if you're over the age of 30, you might not have heard of Easyjournal.com... Web experts put it in the realm of "social software" enabled by the Web, including instant messaging and chat. Some call blogging an easy form of online publishing."

Risks abound in online journals, some turn to password protection: By RON WORD Associated Press Writer JACKSONVILLE Fla. -- Annessa Rink and Robyn Pollman began their Weblogs as a way to express their views on current events and communicate with their families but both have learned that blogging has its risks."

Making sense of "Syndicated Collaboration" (ResearchIndex): "Abstract: This paper discusses the phenomenon of "syndicated collaboration", which is the collaborative use of weblogs, wikis and news aggregator tools, enabled by open standard protocols like Rich Site Summary (RSS). Existing development trends and the collaborative potential of RSS-based technologies are analysed. The widespread use of these technologies indicates a shift from traditional groupware technologies towards an environment of loosely-coupled tools connecting continuously evolving communities ..." A Unified Abstraction for Messaging on the Semantic Web (ResearchIndex): "Abstract: Since its inception, the Internet has been a hotbed of several successful communications channels, starting off with e-mail, Internet Relay Chat and Usenet newsgroups and more recently adding Web annotation, instant messaging, and news feeds. However, these channels were developed fairly independently, and in many cases their respective functionalities have grown to overlap significantly."
Mining the Peanut Gallery: Opinion Extraction and Semantic Classification of Product Reviews (ResearchIndex): "Abstract: The web contains a wealth of product reviews, but sifting through them is a daunting task. Ideally, an opinion mining tool would process a set of search results for a given item, generating a list of product attributes (quality, features, etc.) and aggregating opinions about each of them (poor, mixed, good). We begin by identifying the unique properties of this problem and develop a method for automatically distinguishing between positive and negative reviews."

Bloggers won't match Limbaugh =The Hill.com=: "Although it is never safe to predict with any confidence what will happen over the next 15 years, I doubt that blogging or any specific bloggers will match Limbaugh's record-setting pace for gathering influence in the political process. Blogging lacks four key elements in Limbaugh's formula for success." webservices.xml.com: A Weblog API For the Grassroots [Aug. 05, 2003]: " Last month I looked at the Necho message format. I compared it to RSS, its predecessor. In this column, I want to look at its API. Joe Gregorio is the main author of the API, written in the IETF RFC format. Joe is using Marshall Rose's xml2rfc package, so various formats are available. Make sure to pick up the latest version; as of the time of this writing, draft 6 was the most current one. That API drafts use the name "Atom", which was the old favorite, but it had trademark conflicts.As you read the first of this column, I'll be talking about the Atom API, which is used to manipulate what I previously called Necho data. But both of those might end up being called Feedster pretty soon, judging by an entry in the Wiki, whose URL still reflect it's original name, pie. Whew! At least we know what it isn't: it's not RSS 2.0, which is now owned by the Harvard Law School." OJR article: Dean's Blog Builds Support Despite a Lack of Personal Input: "The former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person."

Behind the Scenes at the Daypop Search Engine, Part Two: "In May, SearchDay published part one of an interview with Dan Chan, founder and sole proprietor of Daypop, a specialized search engine focusing on weblog and news content. Today, we present the second part of our conversation with Dan." NewsGator: "NewsGator retrieves news from news sites, weblogs, and other information sources that support the RSS syndication format, and automatically integrates the news items into Microsoft Outlook folders." Blogs popularity on the rise - York Daily Record: "Weblogs, or blogs, are certainly not new, but they're hitting an exceptional level of popularity on the Net thats now brought blogging into the mainstream." Story - Montreal Gazette - canada.com network: "Weblogs bleat about how depressing Sundays are. "I hate Sundays ... the way everything feels on Sundays," one scribe observed. "Just kind of blah, if you know what I mean."

Boston Globe Online / Business / Software helps blogs flourish: "Blogcount.com estimates that there are roughly 2.4 million to 2.9 million active blogs. Sounds impressive, but Jupiter Research says that only about 2 percent of the Internet community has created a blog; about 4 percent read them."

Internet Week > Hosted Services > M-Blog Launches Hosted Weblog Service > August 4, 2003: "M-Blog Business, tailored to small and midsize organizations, can be used to facilitate open and private communication among associates or with customers while building a knowledge base for the company."

Guardian Unlimited | Arts special reports | Word of mouse: "the "Slashdot effect": a single mention on technology site Slashdot often results in more visitors than a website can handle."

TIME.com: The Dean Factor -- Aug. 11, 2003: "A year ago, Dean, 54, predicted he would come in "dead last in fund raising." Now he's ahead, and he has done it the hard way: $20, $50, $125 at a time."