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Blogspotting reports:

Bloggers played a big part in yesterday’s historic French vote rejecting the European constitution.

(via BuzzMachine)

Update: 05 June

BBC News: Bloggers take on European elites

Found on Blogshares (currently down after a DB Crash)

The RSS Weblog poses the question:

Russell Beattie speculates on the RSS-only blog—no Web page, no HTML code, just a feed link. He projects that comments would be obliterated in such a blog, but that might not be such a bad thing. Also—there’s a problem with permalinks. But his drift is compelling; increasingly, the Web front end seems superfluous.

Well, perhaps not entirely superfluous, but come to think of it, many of the linkblogs I subscribe to are just that.

Build your own bookmarklet

If you can find the magic URL pattern for your system, pass it along.

Find out more in his post: Libraries, directories, short lists, and glue

Gotto check into this.

A Yahoo! News: The battle for the blogosphere

EURid

EURid has been chosen by the European Commission to manage the .eu TLD.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS NOT YET POSSIBLE TO REGISTER OR PRE-REGISTER A .EU DOMAIN NAME WITH EURid AND THERE ARE NO ACCREDITED REGISTRARS FOR .EU.

We are working on final preparations to launch .eu. Please see our timetable .

On this web site you can already find information about getting a .eu name, the ’sunrise period’ and becoming a .eu registrar

We are currently writing the full registration policy & procedures and will soon begin to have key documents and information on this web site translated into all the official EU languages.

Duncan Reilly of Blog Herald: …now over 60 million blogs

A list with the number of bloggers by country.

(via Micro Persuasion)

Update: 01 June 05

The Blogosphere (Tree)mapped

…some interesting conclusions, particularly for Asia. Bottom line is that there is a huge chunk of the world blogging outside the English language.

(via del.icio.us/steverubel)

Lots of Jots of late…

Wow! A tool to ‘look behind’ web pages by Cultured Code:

Xyle scope has been designed and developed for looking underneath the surface of web pages as you surf the web - it couldn’t be easier. Using Xylescope you can look forward to analysing complex CSS designs with incredible ease and experimenting with third-party sites, without having to download them onto your own computer first.

(via MacOSXHints)

Winn Schwartau of Network World, Security Research Center:

This is my first column written on a Mac - ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate. I was a PC bigot.

But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

In the coming weeks I’m going to keep a diary of an experiment my company began at 6 p.m. April 29, 2005 - an experiment predicated on the hypothesis that the WinTel platform represents the greatest violation of the basic tenets of information security and has become a national economic security risk. I do not say this lightly, and I have never been a Microsoft basher, either. I never criticize a company without a fair bit of explanation, justification and supportive evidence.

(via MacSurfer)

A competition to create the most viral website, as measured by the number of unique visitors from now until June 9th.

(via memepool)

Like the Sgt. Pepper’s artwork redone by someone with OCD and two grams of meth in his bloodstream, Howard Hallis’ Picture of Everything is a huge, annotated drawing of, well, everything.

(via memepool)

Following Jon Udell’s post on Annotating the Planet first mentioned here and then here, there is Urban Tapestries:

… a project exploring social and cultural uses of the convergence of place and mobile technologies through transdisciplinary research. To help us model emerging social and cultural behaviours we have built an experimental platform that allows people to author and access place-based content (text, audio and pictures). It is a framework for exploring and sharing experience and knowledge, for leaving and annotating ephemeral traces of peoples’ presence in the geography of the city.

The Urban Tapestries software platform allows people to author their own virtual annotations of the city, enabling a community’s collective memory to grow organically, allowing ordinary citizens to embed social knowledge in the new wireless landscape of the city. People can add new locations, location content and the ‘threads’ which link individual locations to local contexts, which are accessed via handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.

See also Stamps

(Stumbled upon via Shoutspace Blogs… via unmediated)

Roadcasting:

… a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. It plays the songs that people want to hear and it transforms car radio into an interactive medium.

Roadcasting combines the good things about listening to the radio and the good things about being a radio DJ while eliminating the bad things to form a new type of radio service. It’s incredibly easy to have your own radio station heard by others in their cars within a 30-mile radius. Roadcasting matches you to radio stations that play the music you want to hear.

Woah!

(Hat tip to unmediated)

O’Reilly Radar reports from the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference, where Steve Jobs showed ipodder-like features in the next release of iTunes.

A quick glance over the trackbacks on the post reveals some serious interest from all over the blogosphere.

(via Slashdot)