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FeedDemon - yeah, to get your $25 worth it helps to OPML and how to transform XML, but that's what I like about it.

Straw - for when I'm in the Gnome .

BlogLines - web-native but with an API to die for.

AmphetaDesk - around for a while, great if you like shooting your foot of in Perl.

NewsGator - for Outlook - still, you can tweak it to feed event-extended RSS into your task calendar.

rss2Email - for when my Knoppix install has nothing better to do.

SharpReader - not as good as FeedDemon, but less expensive. There are a few others, the WikiPedia has a good handle on that - point is, how is the IBM tool different than all of the above? Are they not going to use RSS or ATOM feeds?

Asides from the /. affect Forbes is going to suffer, imagine the brilliant move of torquing off a large section of one's current and future demographic? Brillian, absolutely brilliant.

Of course then there are the countless parodies - here's the anti-blog cover redone to mock the ginned-up hysteria:
http://www.blogs4god.com/node/626

Not to mention the crappy legal advice the column offered, which is nicely reubtted using the DCMA's own verbage:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004104.php#0 04104

Sheesh - didn't the editors ask for some research first? Or is that only the domain of bloggers and not 'real journalists'

From blogs4God:

"What do I make of this from a conservative Christian point-of-view? My guess is that God is mad that we're wasting the gift of bandwidth on our cell phones while attempting to drive our car ... or worse downloading MP3's of Britney Spears' latest hit."

I personally think it is the Sun complaining about the biased press coverage other heavenly bodies are getting. I mean, big deal, Mars is sooo close ... whoodie stinking doo ... did I feel any heat from it ... did my radio cut out ... all hail God's Holy Herf Gun!

I think that's http://www.blogs4god.com. That said. Yes, there are quiet a few journals out there that portend historical diaries and journals.

I also agree this would be a good teaching tool. I think it might also be a great extension to the Project Gutenberg.

Back in the day, and I mean way back like in the day of Mozart, music was taught by having students copy scores of the great masters. It might be a good practice to do the same by web logging historical figures of the past. The question is, will the DCMA stick its ugly head into the mix and put the kibosh this good teaching tool?

Via blogs4God I found "the Fathers of the Christian Church as well as a few other blog that basically take books, devotionals or diaries out of the past and post them blogs.

I personally think this is a cool way to teach history. I'd like to see more of this on the high-school level as a means of familiarizing students with the great men and women of antiquity on a personal level.

What type of metrics did the writer of the article use to assert the correlation between blogging and unemployement.

I run blogs4God.com - a portal of almost 500 bloggers - as well as a blog itself. There are no more or less unemployed from that segment than there are in my neighborhood.

Sounds a bit contrived - but whatta I know?

I like sites like this ... but isn't their already an effort to define and tie blogging communities via the The Weblog MetaData Initiative?

I mean, Waypath is at one level convenient, but no more so than well established weblog communities such as
blo.gs, the Eaton WebPortal and blogs4God. Moreover, when it comes to gleaning headline news via a blog, I would suspect the real weapon of cohice would be our personal aggregators such as Amphetadesk and HotSheet?

Which is where the WMDI comes in. It helps me identify sites via xml-ish mechanisms such as the Dublin Core Initiative ... which is why I would think someone who's blogging their brains out for the hottest headlines might not be better served by the WMDI.

Then again, your mileage may vary.

Here is a fun little parody on the entire "electronic ballot" situation. Probably funnier if it weren't so close to the truth !-)

• eatonweb portal :: the original weblog directory
  
• Blogging Ecosystem
  
• DayPop
  
• o r g a n i c a
  
• Kamat Blog Portal
  
• Jewish Blogs
  
• Weblogs.Com: Recently Changed Weblogs
  
• blogs4God (corrected link)
  

• eatonweb portal :: the original weblog directory
  
  

1. forgot to mention the Blogicon lexicon
   
2. pundit blogs are actually deemed "war blogs" or "blogs of war"
   
3. it is blogs4god.COM not .CM