See you at Blogher!: I won't be there this evening for any pre-schmoozing, but I will be driving down to San Jose bright and early tomorrow a.m. to take in the splendor that will be Blogher. I'll bring the camera and try to post some shots during the day or soon afterward.... (Event blogging)

2004 DNC Bloggers : The Ten Best List: This is it people. In a thoroughly unscientific and rabidly biased study, I have come up with a list of the 10 best convetion blogs and/or posts of the 2004 Democratic National Convention. 10. Let's wait this out for a week. That's when the real punditry will begin: Seeing The Forest... (Event blogging)

Shout out to the aggregators or How did I blog not from the convention?: I started the day with a false yet funny alarm from Opinions You Should Have Although Kerry immediately realized his mistake and tried to "take back" his acceptance, a member of the Rules Committee informed him that there were "absolutely no take-backsies." How did I get there? Without Technorati: politics.technorati.com, politics.feedster.com... (Event blogging)

Dvorak slams con bloggers: Film at 11. But at least now that Dvorak is himself a blogger, it means that he too must suck.... (Event blogging)

Squeaky wheel gets the juice: Coincidence or response to my gripes, it doesn't matter which, but the three blogs featuring most of my convention blogging have finally been added to the Convention Bloggers website, yielding 130 additional readers in the last half day (at this moment - updated stats at the RFB referrer rankings page at... (Event blogging)

Journalist at work!: Journalist practicing archaic form of notetaking involving making marks with graphite and wood on wood pulp held together with metallic ring bindings... (Event blogging)

Chivalry dead?: Alison Teal notices that the bloggers have been fiercely territorial about seating and vantage points in the blogger section, and that there seems to be a politeness differential across the generation gap(s): There is a reserved section on the seventh floor for the bloggers, but I've stopped going there. The Internet... (Event blogging)

To err is Truman: Dave Winer is annoyed about journalists mangling his web address. I know how he feels. I'm still sort of annoyed that none of the blogs I'm covering the convention for are included in Dave's aggregrator. I don't believe - as Liza suggested in a comment elsewhere - that this is a... (Event blogging)

Movable Type 3.1 will offer more to non-developers than 3.0 did: The release of Movable Type 3.1 is currently scheduled for August 31: Dynamic PHP publishing, controllable on a per-template basis: You can control whether you publish a dynamic or static page on a per-template basis, letting you balance the publishing and traffic for your weblog. For example, high-demand documents like XML... (Products)

Migrating from LiveJournal to Movable Type: Having migrated a weblog (this one) from Radio to Movable Type and another from Blogger Pro to Movable Type, my next migration project has been to get my old bodega weblog migrated over from LiveJournal to Movable Type, and imported into my X-POLLEN blog. The definitive resource for LJ to MT... (Migration)

Beyond title, link, description: Jake Ludington's been posting some thoughts about RSS in his weblog, since Gnomedex just ended and RSS was in the air there. He questions whether RSS is "all that", allowing that "RSS (or something like it) is permanently changing the way online publishers deliver content," but pointing out that "RSS isn't... (Syndication)

Update on Pie: Mark's still calling it Atom. Some people are still calling it Necho. Whatever you call it, Mark Pilgrim has an update on the project to define a vendor-neutral API, archiving, and feed format for weblogs, and a pointer to the API-in-progress and some sample feeds. Myself, I'm returning to the original... (Syndication)