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Yet another for good measure - this time via unmediated:

me-tv: (registration required to watch videos)

…watch the videos that your friends post on their blogs.

You subscribe to channels (RSS feeds of your friends), and me-tv lets you watch them all in one place. It’s a feedreader for video. Yey.

‘ must say I haven’t been paying much attention to videoblogging yet, but two such services popping up on the radar together means it’s happening alright.

Another pointer from randgaenge:

Fresh Videos from Millions of Blogs. Stop Reading and Start Watching

Just a cursory glance over the categories brougt up this one as an example:

Couple of girls talking about blogging

Enough to warrant a more thorough visit…

Ross Mayfield’s Weblog

At Ziff-Davis, a group of 50 team members, who used to receive about 100 e-mails a day, were able to eliminate all of those e-mails by putting information on their SocialText wiki instead. According to Tom Jessiman, general manager of Ziff-Davis’s 1up.com, it has resulted in soft-cost savings of perhaps $1 million because of the time that team members saved by getting the same information directly, bypassing email.

The fact that wikis have achieved the prominence of being featured in Forbes is a milestone. Besides the example cited of Wikipedia, which never ceases to amaze one, SocialText has certainly done a great deal to advance the awareness of wikis and their potential in the enterprise market.

In conclusion, Ross Mayfield’s note of the complimentarity of weblogs and wikis provides an important correction to the somewhat one-sided view presented in the article.

As always, Jon is spot on:

We can’t say exactly how the trick is done, but we understand the basics: a network, a message-passing protocol, nodes that aggregate inputs and produce outputs. The blog network shares these architectural properties. Its foundation network is the Web; its protocol is RSS; its nodes are bloggers. These ingredients combine in ways that are not yet widely appreciated.*
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The blog network is made of people. We are the nodes, actively filtering and retransmitting knowledge. Clearly this architecture can help manage the glut of information. More subtly, it can also help ensure that no vital inputs are suppressed because nobody has to rely on a single source. If one of the feeds I monitor doesn’t react to some event in a given domain, another probably will. When they all react, I know it was an especially important event.

Few people get it and are able to express it as clearly as Jon Udell.

* my emphasis

Thomas N. Burg of randgaenge reveals general plans for a project in development:

a prototype that combines weblog, wiki, and bookmarking into a tag-based collaborative space.
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It’ll be open source.

Alright, now there’s a hot area of development with massive potential if ever I’ve seen one.

Definitely keep an eye on this.