Hurray! Mandy is at Northern Voice participating in her first conference panel on personal expression and passion in blogging.

I don't remember the name of the first panelist, but he is _awesome_. Notable quotes on topics like how he discovered the Internet: "So I was in Guam. It was 1995 and Jerry Garcia died."

... more when the first panelist stops talking ... :)

My friend Lukasz has used my PEAR::Services_Trackback package to create an eZ publish trackback extension. This enables you, to integrate trackback capabilities very easily into your eZ publish based weblog or your whole eZ publish based website. Read more here.

My friend Lukasz has used my PEAR::Services_Trackback package to create an eZ publish trackback extension. This enables you, to integrate trackback capabilities very easily into your eZ publish based weblog or your whole eZ publish based website. Read more here.

"I immediately became a stats whore."

"We are leaving little droppings on the web."

"Authority does not denote veracity."

Blogs allow others to observe someone else's attention, interest and world view over time.

Wanted technorati to pick up the immediacy of conversation.

Web search engines search archives, but don't index by time.

Popular bloggers are forced more towards being one way.

The interesting emergent behaviour in tagging is that, as enough people tag, the semantic relationships between the tags emerge.

Tim Bray asks Dave what can go wrong in the blogosphere (and remarks that if the current growth rate continues that everyone in the world will have a blog by 2008.)

Dave gives a quote from Cory Doctorow: "All healthy ecosystems have parasites." - comment spam, splogs, spings, ...

A key thing is that blogging is accountable - you need to set up a blog and give it an address. For a blog to reputable, it needs time and trust (but not necessarily identity).

Dave comments on Net Nuetrality, categorizing it as the current greatest threat to the Net. "In the US and around the world, there is increasingly consolidation between service providers. Local jurisdictions have granted de-facto monopolies to these providers. These providers plan to use their monopoly to artificially restrict access to resources, and then profit by allowing users to pay to remove restrictions.

How do we fight spam blogs? Solve with the ecosystem. Technorati has a hotline with all of the major hosting companies to help report spam.

Idea: What about a FireFox extension that allows splog reporting?

Blogosphere is growing about one blog per second.

~50% of bloggers are still blogging three months after they start blogging.

~11% blog once a week or more.

About a million bloggers post daily.

Technorati tracks about ~1.2 million posts per day / ~50,000 posts per hour / ~15 posts per second.

While surfing around, I ran across the Current Style in Web Design page on the web design from scratch site. A couple of clicks later, I wound up at emaginacion, where I saw the following image:

Without really reading, I thought, "That's an odd product name - a pun made from zen and engarde." A second or so later, I read the text near the image and knew that this was a sample image from a CSS Zen Garden layout.

Still - zengarde seems like a very plausible name for a web 2.0 product.

While surfing around, I ran across the Current Style in Web Design page on the web design from scratch site. A couple of clicks later, I wound up at emaginacion, where I saw the following image:

Without really reading, I thought, "That's an odd product name - a pun made from zen and en garde." A second or so later, I read the text near the image and knew that this was a sample image from a CSS Zen Garden layout.

Still - zen garde seems like a very plausible name for a web 2.0 product.

eZ TrackBack, a new eZ publish extension is now available for download. This extension provides TrackBack functionality for eZ publish.