Speaking of Martini Republic: Over on her own blog, mitten defends MR against an apparent attack by alleged right-wing blogger Cathy Siepp (a later date: ms. siepp). In so doing, she brings up an interesting matter that relates to the evergreen metablogging question "Why do we blog?": Cathy apparently cares most about the links and... (Blogosphere)

Looking for more info about Blog:CMS: BLOG:CMS appears to be a fairly full featured open-source blog / content management system. I believe Martini Republic uses this application. I'd like to hear from people who have compared it to some of the other popular blog and open source CMSes.... (Products)

Rebranding RSS and syndication: Your grandmother doesn't do HTTP and she doesn't know from XHTML. You didn't buy her a computer so she could access SMTP and IMAP and POP. No, it took words like internet, web, and e-mail to help people who hadn't been reading William Gibson make sense of this strange new world.... (Syndication)

The big exhalation: As the year winds down, I find I have a surfeit of interesting things to think, write, and talk about but an overwhelming desire to sit and stare at a fireplace warmed only by a string of chili lights. I'll be in New York for about a week before Christmas, returning... (Weblog Concepts)