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unmediated points to a trailblaizing example of a participatory news community in Connecticut:

Westport Now - a blog-format site with special emphasis on photography by community members.

What’s the bet (8 to 3) that there’ll be many similar projects popping up all over the world real soon?

In his Sharewood Tidings section Robin Good posts a helpful summary of the essay titled

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

by Adam Mathes.

The link to the paper had already been snagged by 300 others on del.icio.us !

Also check the Many2Many post of August 25, 2004 on folksonomy.

TinyScience Blog provides a screencast demo of a new app called MixCast Live:

(the server is taking a beating right now, but worth the wait)

a one stop shopping for podcast pre-production, live production and post-production.

Most impressive, but unfortunately Windows only

C’mon Mac developers!

(via Scripting News)

Matthew Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, has announced a new bulleting board system:

bbPress

…forum software with a twist. bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. Most software in this space is focused on features like avatars or file attachment and if that’s what you’re interested in, bbPress probably isn’t for you. We’re focused on keeping things as small and light as possible for the explicit purpose of creating a community around support.

Open Source under the GNU Public License

(via Blogosphere News)

David Sifry Alerts us to a new keyword watchlist service on Technorati:

Sign up now to receive 3 free Watchlists. A Watchlist is a customized report that tracks incoming links to people and places you care about. With your Watchlist, you can track the daily conversations that develop between people on weblogs and the sites, news, products and topics they are talking about.

Must try it out.

Techdirt reports “on good authority”:

Faced with some amount of competition from Google, MSN and AOL (and, probably Yahoo at some point), it looks like Six Apart decided they needed to get into the numbers game to show that, somehow, they had more bloggers than the others — and Live Journal gives them that point. However, it’s not clear how much Live Journal users have in common with TypePad users. The two seem to attract very different audiences.

Whoa! Here we go!