AOL vs. LiveJournal: Much ado has been made recently about AOL blocking LiveJournal referrers. Some think it is a misguided attempt to deep linking or bandwidth-stealing (linknig to hosted images). Other see it as a preemptive strike against the most likely competitor to AOL Journals. Ross Mayfield ponders both interpretations and more, gathering a... (Blogosphere)

Follow up on Dean and software: Dana Blankenhorn has written a long reply to Dave's criticism of the Dean campaign, and I'm still a little confused. Is it that the Dean team should not feel free to develop and promulgate technical solutions to their own specific problems? How is that different from any sovereign entity doing so?... (Products)

What software is Dean selling?: Where did Dave get the cockamamie idea that Howard Dean is in the software business? Is it based on the modified version of the open-source Drupal CMS called DeanSpace that some Dean supporters are distributing for free to encourage people to build sites for Dean that will generate and aggregate RSS... (Products)

Seybold schedule update: It appears my WOW mini-session on RSS, RDF, syndication, and content dissemination is being rescheduled. The new timeslot is Thursday, September 11, from 2:30 - 3:00 pm. My bad. My session on syndication was not rescheduled. It is still on Tuesday, September 9, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. What was rescheduled... (Weblog Concepts)