Lots of talking across the backyard fences today 

Bloggers of the four most recently updated OPML blogs on the changes page are all commenting on each other's posts in real time this morning. I think it's something unique. And I still keep thinking this behavior could be formalized somehow in the software. Combine either comments or trackbacks across blogs in the same community and aggregate them on a page that displays the interaction in something like a message board format. In a way it's related to what Dave is doing by prominently displaying the Technoriati logo to show links to his blog.

Still more on different file enclosure types 

Does anybody care about this? I'll keep reporting on it here anyway, because this is where I started with it, and because the little crowd who reads my learnandteachonline.com blog isn't as RSS-aware as the OPML community, a subsidiary of Amalgamated Dave Formats & Protocols.

I heard from Jean-Claude Bradley, who teaches chemistry at Drexel. He's a terrific and untiring advocate for blogs, podcasts and RSS in the classroom. And he even runs an RSS club at Drexel.

Anyway, he says that iPodder will transport PPT files, and iTunes does PDF. Score!

Lemme at 'em 

Richard output the Daily KOS piece on chomping at the bit to fight Iraq. The Wesley Clark remark about being asked by the White House to spin it seems so damning. But I checked out the link. He said that in 2003! It's funny how this is exactly what most liberals have believed for four years and the evidence is only just now getting wider exposure. Maybe the majority of the public just wasn't ready to be anything but rah-rah on the war until recently.

Lots of Americans wanted to believe Iraq was tied in as much as Bush and that scary pair, Wolfowitz and Woolsey. I was at work on 9/11 crowded around a TV with co-workers. One woman said, "We better get those missles pointed." At 10 a.m. on that morning, I wondered "pointed at whom?" She and millions of others wanted to punish the Middle East country we were most familiar with. Like Bush, wanted to in the worst way.

Later: now he' s live-blogging Meet the Press! I don't think I've ever seen that done. Well, yeah, I do recall being in a chat room once when somebody we all knew was a contestant on Jeopardy and those who were watching were reporting for those who weren't. That was fun. Reading Richard's notes is eery. In Chicago it airs at 9:30 CST. Is it on at 10 EST? Looks like I'm watching it on a half-hour delay after his posting.