Blogger pays Apple $1 for use of the term "podcast." Apple returns check.
Kat Herding, who has a blog that appears to be very over-the-top and blatantly self-promotional, wants to know what a Scobleizer is: "What the hell is a Scobelizer? It sounds like one of those things they turn on at night when you're a kid and you have a bad cold." The Kat Herding blog was built by these bloggers.
Kottke gets deep and discusses the psycopathy of blog commentors.
Tony Pierce's blogger page was deleted from Wikipedia despite efforts to save it. He has a post that includes an email from a Wikipedia Editor who argued in favor of deletion. More on the Wikipedia War on Bloggers story here.
This post explains how lifelogging is like cave paintings.
Just how personal should a blog be? The Blogging Journalists says, "I try not to get too personal in my posts although it's done at the risk of being boring. I also try to keep my posts focused on a specific subject."
Jeff Jarvis blogs about a moment of "nano-micro-mini-celebrity."
Paul Boutin, who has written for Slate and Wired, joins Valleywag. Melissa Lafsky and Nick Douglas (who used to blog at Valleywag) join HuffPo's Eat the Press blog.
Publishing2.com says content business don't scale anymore. It could also be that very successful media companies just take a very, very long time to build. Some of the best known content providers have been around for several decades.
Amanda Congdon is video blogging for ABC News -- see here. Jeff Jarvis likes it.
Recovering Journalist thinks more newspapers should expirement with social networks. A couple attempts are mentioned in the post like Bakotopia and vita.mn.
SFGate.com calls
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch a Web 2.0 feather ruffler.
Nick Denton says Netscape was losing traffic when Calacanis left. Jason Calacanis made a post called the "Death of Gawker" after reading this Gawker deathwatch post. Calacanis also made a post about his favorite blogger of the moment, who is Gina Trapani from Lifehacker -- TechCrunch says could end up costing Denton: "This post should cost Denton - Gina is clearly going to be getting a flurry of attention and competing offers."
Crave reports on the top ten girl geeks. What's party girl Paris Hilton doing on the list?
Just because you can blog in one click doesn't always mean you should. A good post about
blogging and thinking before you blog here from Edu.blogs.com.
Steve Ruble blogs
that Weblogs, Inc. will lose its edge without Jason Calacanis. A post that disagrees with this idea can be found here.
