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