Breaching the barrier: blogging in the face of traditional media: We are witnessing history in the prosecution of the U.S. v. Libby trial. But not because this case presents the hologram in which the strategy to launch a unilateral war was prepared and promoted; it is because bloggers are covering this trial within a federal courthouse, side by side with traditional... (Journalism)

Extending blogging with structure: Catching up with Marc Canter I see that he and his cohorts have unveiled Structured Blogging. Looks interesting. I’ll need to try out the plugin(s) to see if the data-entry overhead makes sense for me. Paul Kedrosky thinks I’m (well, all of us are) too lazy to make it work. He... (Weblog Concepts)

Annotating the Winer/Trippi podcast: Over at Civilities, Jon Garfunkel has done provided us all a useful service by partly transcribing and commenting on the recent Dave Winer interview of Joe Trippi that deals with Zephyr Teachout's take on the Dean campaign's hiring of Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas as consultants (Dissecting the Most Important Podcast... (Politics)

Comment-Spam-Filters: Google has implemented a new method for depriving comment spammers of their Google-Juice. Damn fine idea me thinks!... (Products)

Ten important ideas about blogging (and legacy media): How to Save the World delivers another trenchant run-down on the state of blogging and the media as a whole.... (Journalism)