Jeff Jarvis writes…..

Top 10 blog moments?
: Someone has asked for examples of the top moments of blog influence in politics and the presidential campaign. Obvious starting nominees:
: Howard Dean and MeetUp
: Trent Lott
: Rathergate.
What else? Please leave lots of suggestions in the comments….
[JeffJarvis}

I don;t care about politics and the presidential campaign but…..
: Anything and everything [...]

I aa hoping that Jason Calacanis would hire from within and he did. Judith has just been named Editorial Director for Weblogs Inc..
In the same CBSMarketWatch story comes the new that Mary Meeker now think blogs and RSS are the hottest thing on the Internet.
Oh good - thank goodness. I was worried that [...]

Phil Becker is keynoting the DIDW (Digital ID World) conference here in Denver. The high altitude sickness isn’t as bad as last year - but it’s still prevalent.
Doc is going to keybote on the final day and I’m on a panel with Dick Hardt (Sxip), Simon Grice (Midentity), Kim Cameron (Microsoft) and Doc today.
I [...]

I sure hope the homeboys and grrrls in Ohio watch this. It befuddles me how anyone from urban centers would even THINK about voting for Bush.
It’s one thing to come froma cushy suburban existance - but… - urban folks (like folks from Cleveland, Youngstown, Columbus, Cincinnati) need to do the right thing.
This video sure [...]

And so it begins.
The VOD and Interactve TV scene has been awash in confusion, flack bullshit and failed dreams for over 10 years now.
Perhaps this VC funded play will work. We’ll see.
Here’s the news [via PaidContent.org]

: Akimbo, the IP VOD service (through a set-top box) has launched its service through Amazon.com…Amazon will be [...]

It’s just money - right?
The funny thing I picthed NetZero - about 18 months to build their own social networkjing system. Oh well.

I don’t like to blog too much about FlashMeeting as it’s based upon FlashComm which is priced wrong and helps a slimey company - which I helped start - but it’s too dam coolio NOT to blog.
My friend Marc Eisenstadt hosts this incredible videoconferencing service - which is being used by folks all around the [...]

I’ve been waiting to see when various on-line API services (like Flickr) would find their way into traditional desktop apps.
It’s happened! It’s called F-Spot (thanks to unmediated.)

This project looks like an attempt to bridge the gap between re-usable metadata creation and practical photo management. F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo [...]

Lucas has a good point:

Given that there are a bunch of web applications inspired by blogging, like Flickr, del.icio.us, and Webjay, and that each of these apps has a developer API, why isn’t the API Atom? Why are all these APIs different?
Where I’m going with this is the need for common APIs for web applications, [...]

Weinberger almost has it right. He’s missing one key thing - which I’ll clarify below.
First here’s his post……

I think Marc Canter’s idea is, overall, a bad one because, even though his scheme provides transparency (yay!), as I understand it, bloggers who said bad things about a client would not get their contracts renewed (boo!); [...]