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Om Malik first has a rumor then confirmation that Newsgator is buying FeedDemon. "It's a cash-and-stock deal, and Nick will join Newsgator."  For ten points, where was the picture taken? 
I've been hearing from people who love their Elements.   The NY Times announces that they'll charge $49 a year for access to certain op-ed pieces and other stuff, including the archives. I don't get it. The op-ed stuff is well-competed with by blogs, which are free of course, and frankly there aren't any columnists that the Times has that I want to read, for pay or otherwise. I suppose others feel otherwise. Let's hope this doesn't affect their policy re the links in their RSS feeds.   Scoble: "Will I start my own religion?" Personally, I think that's a little premature. But I have suggested that Scoble start the Scoble School of Scoble, where Scoble teaches people who come how to be a scoble.  sco-ble, n, A person who blogs about an organization from the point of view of someone who works for the organization. Related verb: scobleize, to be influenced by a blog written by a scoble. Named after early 21st century blogger, Robert Scoble, whose disciples founded a religion, The Church of The Martyr Scoble, after he was violently murdered by Steven Ballmer, a destitute homeless person who was ruined by Scoble.  CBS Marketwatch: Podcasts go broadcast.  My mother thought buses in her neighborhood should turn off their engines while they're waiting at the depot, and she got what she wished for!  A couple of notes. Some bloggers complain that we don't point to women often enough. First, we don't hesitate for a nanosecond to point to worthy posts by women. And second, how many bloggers, male or female, can boast that they've pointed to their mother! Fact is, my parents are extraordinary people. I hear that every day about my dad and his podcast about outliners and President Bush (who he calls a snake, people really seem to like that). Well, I have a mother too, and she kicks butt.  
I guess they did play mine first. Thanks for the honor.  Two signs that the world is either going crazy or getting saner, not sure which. There's blogging at the Gartner conference, by participants and by Gartner; and IBM is encouraging its employees to blog.   A sure sign of sanity, a German blogger has banned Google from indexing his site in protest over their web accelerator. I'd love to ban Google from modifying the content on my site, however Google has not offered us a way to turn that off.   It gets better. KYOU has an awful signup process, whether you want to submit (awful word) a podcast for broadcast, or just want to listen. Staci Kramer called it. "a process that almost dares people to listen." Also, to be clear, I am not being paid, and if they screw up, you'll hear about it here first.  Political Wire: "8 in 10 journalists said they read blogs." 
Gnomedex is right around the corner. It seems everyone is going this year, me too. I'm giving one of the keynotes, it's going to be BloggerCon-style, so I'll talk for 10 minutes, maybe do a demo, then lead a discussion. Are you going? What should we talk about?   PodNova is an interesting podcasting directory built on OPML and RSS.  I'm playing around with some ideas this morning, and I needed to have an enclosure on an item in my RSS feed for an experiment. It won't be very long, so if your iPodder downloaded it automatically, please excuse the intrusion. Still diggin!  Wired: "Inventive web developers are taking Google's online map service to a new level, layering in house sales and apartment rentals, real-time traffic stats and Flickr photo tags."  IE blog: "IE7 has tabs." 
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