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Digress.it is a plugin for WordPress that supports discussion at a far finer level than is traditionally available on most blogs. Rather than limiting conversations to a single field at the bottom of a post, digress.it "lets you comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text." -- Mike Bogle, TechTicker

I'm continually looking for a way to use this but so far haven't found one. For personal blogs with fairly short posts it's a bit of overkill I think, but I could easily see it used for longer pieces - especially where you're meticulously analysing or interpreting things.

Very interesting discussion about how Google Wave will change everything by DavePollard

Fairly comprehensive outline with lots of video interviews with pioneer educators, students and developers working in Open Sim

Thought-provoking - thanks, Mike

In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age-today's heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today's policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation.

All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in (using this plug-in) will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud.

I saw this come through the other day. I've added the WP plugin to my blog but haven't managed to see a demonstration of RSSCloud in action yet. Dave Winer's aggregator seems to be the only one that supports it currently.

After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp. The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can … 1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting 2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count 3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting 4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen 5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.