Shark jumping LIVE at MDP: At the risk of sounding all teenage-ry, I just want to say: Oh. My. God. I'm actually going to speak on a panel at the first Bloggers' Caucus at the Michigan Democratic Convention tomorrow. Surely this means I have now jumped the shark -- or will do so, LIVE, in front... (Event blogging)

Blong: beyond the blog: I think a lot of us are alloying our old ideas about home pages and web publishing with new insights from blogs and wikis and other social media of the living web... (People Power)

Dancemobbing the RNC: Back in July, John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Grateful Dead songwriter, proposed a simple idea in BarlowFriendz: Dancing in the Streets: Revolution with a Smile : Let's vex the hell out of the Republicans by dancing in the streets. More than 415 comments where posted in... (People Power)

5-4-3-2-1 ... Countdown to the RNC: I did not get to go to Boston for the Democratic National Convention and resorted to blog some of the speeches from my sofa. Lucky me the Republican National Convention is being held in my home town. Read that lucky with a smirk : here in my neck of the... (Event blogging)

Update on Multi-Author/RSS Auto-Aggregation: So far, so good. Posts to my livejournal and to a few other blogs are automatically being picked up in my categories/xPollen/">x-pollen category. They don't show attribution, though. That is, you can't tell if one came from my personal journal and another from my political blog. I'm not sure if that's... (Weblog Concepts)

Word Virus: Subvert Press: The 'Thank You' Sticker. Thought-virus: Thank you for financing global terror (via Metafilter sideblog)... (Memes)

(Bite Media: Who Died and: (Bite Media: Who Died and Made Rumsfeld Secretary of State?) In AlterNet: Connect the Dots With Rumsfeld, David Corn questions Rumsfeld's out-front spokesmanship for the U.S. foreign policy:Most recently, he warned (at a public meeting with Army troops) that if Russia maintains its trading relationship with Iraq, the nation will be... (Miscellany)

New Forms of Journalism: I'm still mining the J-School resources here. This is a link to J.D. Lasica's weblog/journalism resource: Journalism's new life forms: The following links provide information about new forms of personal journalism — including weblogs, collaborative news sites, personal broadcasting, and more — as well as pointers to examples of each genre.... (Memes)

Link List from Blood's 'Weblog Handbook': Just noticed that Rebecca Blood has put all the links from her book online at her site. This is a good practice, as it enables her to update links as they change from their printed version in the book (as some already have).... (Weblog Concepts)

Pics of New York. Check: Pics of New York. Check out this one showing the WTC site. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Zony Mash::The Meters::The Meters Anthology (Disc 1)... (Miscellany)

Beginning of the End for Gopher?: Following a link from Q Daily News (I'm still exploring links that turned up from checking out the UC Berkeley J-School IP Weblog Class syllabus mentioned in an entry yesterday), I found this copy of developer's notes for Internet Explorer 6 SP 1, including the nonchalant mention that they are effectively... (Memes)

Required (Remedial) Reading: Anyone trying to get caught up on weblogs, history of weblogs, what makes a good weblog, history of what people have thought makes a good weblog, and so on, should probably go back and ready CamWorld's rant from January 26, 1999. I have to admit that I used to think CamWorld... (Weblog Concepts)

Policies for Employee Blogs: (Via A Blog Doesn't Need a Clever Name [via Scripting News]) Ray Ozzie is working through some of the legal issues surrounding employee weblogs at Groove networks.... (Best Practices)

An Info Immune System for the Planet: I must be obsessed, since now I'm dreaming about weblogs and waking up with new thoughts freshly gelled from my subconscious. This morning it was an image of weblogs as antibodies or red^H^H^Hwhite blood cells (can you tell I haven't studied biology all that carefully?), swarming to attack so-called information from... (Memes)