The variety and breadth of ideas that weblogs can cover continues to be amazing. Witness one of the latest efforts, EPIDEMIca, a weblog about infectious diseases.

Powered by Movable Type, this site adopts a serious tone and a professional look appropriate for the topic it's dedicated to. Currently featuring a special focus on the bird flu epidemic, the blog format makes it easy to make sure that information can spread quickly enough to keep up with the spread of disease. As an example of a professional-level blog that isn't published by a company, M-J Milloy's work in creating Epidemica is an important example of the potential of blogs to contribute to education about something as...

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Ning has just launched their namesake service. Though it meets all the superficial standards for Web 2.0 buzzword compliance, including tag clouds, a beta badge, and name-checks of Flickr and del.icio.us, it looks like there's some real substance to this new application-building platform as well.

Formerly known by some as 24 Hour Laundry, Ning is hard to sum up succinctly. But the core idea is that it's a service for building social software online. The best description on the site is in the Developer Documentation, which offers perhaps an overview of what's possible:

Developing your social apps on the Ning Playground has some advantages:

• App creation tools - including the ability to...

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O'Reilly Media has just launched a great new blog called O'Reilly Radar, where the popular publisher covers the latest trends that inform the publications and conferences that O'Reilly is known for.

There's a lot of cool new features that have been built into the Movable Type-powered site. As the credits page shows, Professional Network member Tim Appnel helped create a slick folksonomy system for the new site, taking the popular technique of using tags to label content and building some clever extensions on top of it:

One of the interesting aspects of our work on the Radar project was developing the necessary infrastructure for implementing a content folksonomy in MT. In addition to...

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From the "oldies but goodies" category of tips is a howto on running Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer on a single Windows PC. Though this made the rounds of most design-oriented blogs a few years ago, we still run into people that didn't know this trick was possible. It's a great way to simplify your testing matrix for the various versions of Internet Explorer that exist on the Windows platform.

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Annalee Newitz argues in the San Francisco Bay Guardian that weblogs are taking over television by having the tone and immediacy of reality TV shows. While the point's probably debatable, her discussion is certainly entertaining, and there's even a mention of Wendy Seltzer's excellent Movable Type-powered weblog, Chilling Effects, which monitors the legal machinations surrounding fair use and intellectual property on the Internet.

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10.04.2005

Ning Playground Launches

Ning has just launched their namesake service. Though it meets all the superficial standards for Web 2.0 buzzword compliance, including tag clouds, a beta badge, and name-checks of Flickr and del.icio.us, it looks like there's some real substance to this new application-building platform as well.

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The BBC follows up on this week's crackdown on reformist websites in Iran, reporting that many weblogs are promoting reformist newspapers by adopting their names and reprinting their articles, since the papers' own sites are being blocked. As with many of these protests, much of the effort is being coordinated by Hoder. Good luck to all of you fighting against censorship with your blogs.

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04.28.2005

Blogs as a complement to newspapers

Forbes online picked up an Associated Press story about the eleven blogs being published by the editorial staff of the News & Record in North Carolina.

The broad range of Movable Type-powered blogs have earned high praise from others in the journalism business. As Editor & Publisher said:

"When the paper's overhaul is complete, it may be a model for the sort of 21st century paper that many journalism big thinkers have been talking about, chewing over, and confabbing on for the last few years," wrote the industry-watching magazine Editor & Publisher. "Greensboro will be the first place where this conceptually...

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01.31.2005

BlogBinders: Publish your blog in print

If you're looking for a way to hold your blog in your hands, BlogBinders.com offers a simple and clever service to turn your blog into an attractive, customized book. BlogBinders supports LiveJournal, Movable Type, and TypePad.

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01.31.2005

Gawker launches Lifehacker and Gridskipper

Gawker Media's just added two new Movable Type-powered weblogs to its media empire, as announced by Nick Denton. Lifehacker is a friendly geek site and Gridskipper is a travel site aiming for selectivity.

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