Answering xian's question, Qlogger offers a template format for Marijuana blogs. I like this because it's part of my vision for structured blogging.

p.s. Canniblog a weblog keeping you up to date with the latest developments in British cannibalism.

Checking in with Nico Lumma of noch'n blogg and a fellow survivor of the Blogtalk conference. A few items:

He and his wife have their first baby. Congratulations!

Thinking about what blogging's official theme song should be

• recognize that blogging ring tone
• stop a blogger on the street
• to play at awards ceremonies

Nominees:

• Abba, just because they capture the spirit so well
• Johnny Cash, whose death was widely blogged
• No fleetwood mac
• The Greatful Dead, but hard to blog to

The new rage in Germany: Karaoke Blogging. The site, Karaokeblogging.de, has been climbing the blogg.de and blogcensus charts in the last month. Building on the richness and immediacy of audioblogging, karaoke blogging is a higher form of social software (unless you don't like karaoke). The first time I heard a fully karaoked blog, I was blown away by the sonified experience. Update: Now in English at Karaokeblogging.com.

I'm a fan of 1-click karaoke blogging, great usability. But they should not file for a patent. The backlash might stifle karaokeblogging in its infancy.  

A few technical concerns:

1. I am hoping for ENT 1.0 support soon, the better to navigate both the songbook libraries and karaokebloggers' mp3 recordings.
2. They must add Atom support to exploit integration and syndication of the Karaoke midi xml format with the blog item data model.
3. Move from their poorly formed RSS feed to a valid RSS 2.0 feed, to support the KAI xml namespace. How are we supposed to adjust our newsreaders to support the feeds if they aren't well formed? Also, RSS enclosures would help stream new karaoke, midi and mp3 files in the background, so I can wake up to a newsreader full of the latest from my favorite performers.
4. There is some debate over whether you should permit more than song per blog post. I support Nico's idea that more karaoke is better.
5. Not sure if it works in Opera.

The business applications are obvious. So I'll be covering them in my BloggerCon session next weekend. See you there.

- phil

I'll be in Boston Wednesday lunch through Wednesday lunch. If you'd like to meet or eat or drink or walk around or get help or talk shop, write me, Skype me, or call my mobile at 510.444.8234.

Why go early and stay late?

Holy mackerel, have you seen the BloggerCon program? A week from tomorrow I have to choose between Halley Suitt talking about weblog business policy and applications (still soaking in the glory of her first Harvard Business Review case study), Doctor Reider reviewing examples of weblogs in medicine (blog or die!), and the hugely creative Susan Mernit setting the agenda for blogging technology evolution. How am I supposed to choose?

Thirty minutes later I have no choice: I'm presenting on blogs in the workplace, continuing where Halley leaves off. But Dave Winer puts me up against Jon Udell on aggregators (damn, I want to pick his brain on that), the professor Reverend AKMA (whom I haven't seen in 9 months and who blows my mind every time read or run into him), and - get this - Jeff Jarvis on presidential campaign blogging. Shit. Shit. Shit. I'm blogging for the Kerry campaign in Northern California and damn if I don't want to hang with Jeff for 90 minutes talking shop. How am I supposed to concentrate on my own session with all that brilliance just radiating from the other rooms?

OK, there's lunch. Maybe I can hang with them on Mass Ave.

But after lunch? Fuck! Same thing! Joi Ito wings in from Japan to discuss all those tools that glue the blogoshpere together, what I want to be doing. Next door Harold Gilchrist shows us how real-world audioblogging is done, imho paving the way for Canter's fat-pipe vision of everyone rich-media blogging everything. But nooooo, the choice gets harder because master conspirator Eugene Volokh, all the way from UCLA Law is going to explain how we're all going to jail for blogging. Are you making sense of all this? I breathe all this stuff but Andrew Grumet is going to explain it all in plain English, an enormous challenge.

An abundance of choice.

And this is just the quickly thrown together FREE day two of BloggerCon.

What questions should I ask?