Blogging the MDP Convention: We're not quite there after all; blogging has not yet arrived as the political force it is elsewhere in the rest of the country. The first clue should have been the locked door to the caucus room upon arrival this morning.... (Blogosphere)

More CVB Memories. I remember: More CVB Memories. I remember now that they also played When I Win the Lottery and Flowers from Key Lime Pie.The tension between Lowery and Siegal was light and they made light of it, though David wore a cowboy hat that obscured the nonbearded half of his face, and winced when... (Miscellany)

Speaking of Scaling Issues and Growing Pains: (Via blogpopuli) Massive is worried about the influx of newbies at the influential community weblog metafilter breaking the culture there: User numbers bloomed by over a thousand in less than two months. I shrugged my shoulders and thought, "What difference is 15,000 from 14,000? Little will change." I'm not so sure... (Weblog Concepts)

EPN World Reporter: Top Blogs: Here's someone's idea of some good blogs to check out. What interests me is this assertion: Further, the distinction between web diaries and web logs continues to become more blurred. Which, ultimately, makes for better reading.... (Memes)

Mining Udell on Radio and the Two-Way Web: I should have known I'd get sucked in. I remember reading Jon's columns as he continually documented what he was learning about web servers, content managemenet, database-backed websites, and so on. From the link mentioned in my previous entry I've now read Udell's review of Radio 8 and a three-part article... (Best Practices)

Personal RSS Aggregators: John Udell wrote a good overview of RSS Aggregators in a May 27 column in Byte, the seminal, now-online-only computer magazine (the only such magazine I ever paid to subscribe to): No single person will be completely authoritative in any one area, but that won't matter ... in fact, it's better... (Best Practices)

Who Died and Made Rumsfeld: 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 branded a... (Miscellany)

New Blog of Note: Just added to my blogroll: The Vicarious Delusions of Malium's journal. I think blogrolls need to be annotated, or at least that I should do more than just add people to a link and never explain why. Backfilling is always piling up, but at least from now on when I add... (Weblog Concepts)

Welcome Malium to the Blogosphere.: Welcome Malium to the Blogosphere. Everyone knows I think shacker is the salt of the earth, but only a few know that malium introduced me to scot.now if we could only entice levi into greater blogistan... Current Music: Blackhole::Beck::Mellow Gold... (Miscellany)

Will the Blogosphere Have Scaling Pains?: A kuro5hin post I noticed in my aggregator (The future of blog: The scaling barrier) brings up an interesting point: will blogs scale? Blogs have a scaling problem. Kinda like clubs. The good crowd moves in and they become these perfect little places for some time. And then too many people... (Best Practices)

RSS or Nowheresville?: inessential.com says that RSS is where it's at: I think I've seen the future, or a small part of it, regarding weblogs. Two things: If you're not syndicating your site as RSS it might as well not exist. If you don't include a <link...> tag in your home page that points... (Weblog Concepts)

Posting Experiment via LiveJournal Client: I'm tired of having to generate a new editing window every time I want to link to someone, write something, or edit something. I just made RadioExpress! pop up its editing window in a new window because I want to link to several URI's in one entry and otherwise RE! takes... (Weblog Concepts)

Is This One Nation, Under Blog?: Wired News discusses ambiguous or unavailable installed-base figures for blogs. Surprisingly, they spell blogosphere with a hyphen as well, following Newsweek style? Meanwhile, the VC-oriented world looks elsewhere: Industry research powerhouses are likely to stay away from the blog-osphere until it reaches profitability. Gartner, Neilsen\//NetRatings, Forrester Research and International Data Corporation... (Memes)

Standalone TrackBack in the Works: Mena posted at Movable Type about a new threaded version of TrackBack and alluded to a standalone version of TrackBack (that is, one that does not require MT) to be released soon. Keep them innovations coming!... (Memes)