Microsoft blogging service about to launch: Quoting from Scripting News: Mary Jo: "Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week, according to sources close to the company."... (Products)

Shelley to the rescue: Looks like Shelley Powers has addressed the exact trackback-ping-not-rebuilding-the-archive-page and thus not-showing-up-inline-automatically problem I was just noticing: Weblogging for Poets: Adding Trackback entries to individual archive pages BTW, we'd better get password protection going here soon, or make a conscious decision to leave this site visible to random visitors, because Andrew... (Editorial)

An erudite law blogger: I stumbled across an incredibly well written and thoughtful weblog lately, called unbillable hours. The author (TPB, Esq.) includes a long and entertaining biography that gives you a good idea of his education, cultural influences, and experiences - all of which inform his writing, which ranges from silly to serious. (His... (Blogosphere)

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Hello! I just put it: Hello! I just put it to bed!The all new, constantly improved VIRTUAL OCCOQUANGuess you'd better check it out now! With David Fox, FIONA, The Raven,The Barbaric Yawp, Kriselda Jarnsaxa,Robert Crook, Mark Hoback, Rob Salkowitz,Jan Haugland, Maxine Dailey, Stan Keaton,Gentleman George Mahood, VeryModern,Rayne, Daniel Dolinov, Susan McNerney, anda very special appearance by the... (Salon Bloggers)