• In these years reading them writing about stuff I had opinions about I have been able to "calibrate points of view". I don't agree with everything they say but I tend to have a pretty clear feeling about our relative positions.
• They are their own publishers, nobody is controlling or editing what they write but themselves.
  
• They don't have any "let's rule the world in order to sell more diapers ads" hidden agenda.
• They are normal people. They wrote the convetion was boring, journalists didn't.
• ...
  

RSS Traffic Burdens Publisher's Servers. The popularity of RSS feeds is testing the web infrastructure of at least one publishing company, which likens the impact of newsreader traffic to a denial of service attack. [Netcraft]

RSS file polling is currently using 44.8% of the bandwidth for my little weblog, I can only imagine what happens on a major news site. What does this mean? Too many rss readers downloading the whole file and not only the tiny http header? Maybe RSS readers should by default not read news at the top of the hour?

Is anybody working on a solution?

Peter Praschl explores the "weblogs as jam sessions" metaphore.

Webloggers behave like bebop musicians meeting after regular hours in their own clubs, jamming for each other and for a public with a special expertise; are improvising on "standards" while pushing their limits; often define themselves as some kind of elite, avantgarde movement; are always in danger of being integrated by corporate standards; and are, almost accidentally, creating a whole new kind of writing.

TypePad was intended for friend and family of MT users.

33% of TypePad blogs are private, 10% are password protected.

Companies are starting to use weblogs even if often they are hidden behind email and aggregators.

The true weblogging revolutions: when weblogs become invisible.

It's only when I was discussing with some other bloggers at lunch today that I remembered that I liked BlogTalk 1.0 because of the people you can hang out with, not only the presentations.

Btw, Dave is thinking about a European BloggerCon.

Elmine Winjia (about making blogging tools easier to use): "I'm using MovableType, but only because my boyfriend is a geek".

Jörg Kantel and Jon Hoem have both talked about video weblogs (vog).

A vog is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog

Jon is envisioning a new kind of web tool which allows users to compose videos using bits and pieces of other videos which have been available under a CC license. They are using SMIL.

My favourite German blogger is now on stage.

• having wifi access and surfing the web
• not having wifi access and try to get the attention of somebody to get it fixed