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Blogshares – creating an economy out of blogs. You get $500 (notional) and you can buy or sell blogs with it. via andersja

Your recommended blog list via Anita

Photos from the Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet.

Mahesh is experimenting with a new blog format. Something like this has been on my mind for a while too. Will be watching it with great interest.

Professional news feeds. A treasure for RSS news junkies.

Meg calls for professional blogging. I agree. Like all good things, blogging will have to go commercial, and like Faraday said, “… someday you can tax it.” (Note: Actually, Faraday didn’t say it.)

Guardian’s favourite blogs. Satish’s Random Thoughts is on it.

Essential Blogging: a book on weblogging. Quite good. Technie note: This RSS thing looks interesting. Daypop has started offering RSS output. Need to see how I can use it.

Things Mil and his girlfriend have argued about. I dread to think of my future.

Microcontent news has news about blogs, zines, and the all the “personal publishing” sector. Pretty interesting news, from what I’ve seen so far.

Interesting read. A weblogger’s date read his weblog. Lesson to all webloggers: say nice thing about yourself.

The psychology of weblogs. After reading this, I realised I ran out of things to say almost a year ago.

My blogger code is B6 d t++ k++ s u- f+ i o- x– e+ l c. So?

Scripting News awards of 2001 for the best blogs.

A whole lot of webloggers linked to KPMG once they heard about this letter.

I am not a blogaholic. I scored 48/100. 39% scored more than I did. I am “a casual weblogger … blog when nothing better to do … post more often … readers happy.”

Blogback: Remote commenting for weblogs. But I’m not interested in going the full weblog way. Wonder what the next “new new thing” is…

A new paradigm. Weblog as conversation. Metafilter.

Yet another meta blog by wacky brit. The idea seems to be catching on fast.

MIT’s Blogdex crawls weblogs (like mine) for popular links. Nice concept – somewhat like Google’s, except more “current information” based. The page of only weblogs has a good list of weblogs (not as comprehensive as Eatonweb), and Rebecca’s written a good history of weblogs.

Clayton’s parents are divorced, and his mother has custody. But he wants to see his father, so he went on a hunger strike. His site raises the important question: how much can kids decide which divorced parent to be with?

Just the service I’ve been waiting for. The Scout Report – one of the oldest and best sources of what’s good on the Internet, has launched a web log.

Don’t know what a web log is? It’s a site where people talk – usually about the Web. Some are discussions. Some are moderated. Some are narratives – like mine. Scripting news is my favourite, and SlashDot’s another popular one. Blogger’s the most popular, I hear.