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Tim Stay over at Know More Media has a post up discussing the tools that they use:

There is great pleasure in finding a new tool that makes life easier. You know, the kind of tool that after you use it, you wonder how you lived life without it.

We have team members working from home and from one of our two offices. We currently have people working in California, Utah, and Arizona, as well as some engineering work being done in Nepal. We expect to have people working with us across the country and around the world. So some of our favorite tools are the ones that help us work in this geographical disparate (not desperate!) model.

I’m curious what tools each of you use to keep in touch.. to communciate.. to oversee your blog networks. Wikis? Internal blogs (I know b5media has one). Mailing lists? Conference calls? Custom reporting tools?

Post in the comments…

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Originally posted on December 21, 2005 @ 11:05 pm

Instablogs launches Coolbuzz

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Instablogs has launched Coolbuzz:

R Coolbuzz

The Coolbuzz Blog will track all the cool stuff which inspires us – cool gadgets of course, cool design, and whatever that comes under ‘Wow! it’s cool’ heading.

Coolbuzz will be more than just a gizmo blog. And you all can help us achieve this aim. Send us information about all things cool taht youi come across. Come to think of it, even an idea can be cool and Coolbuzz will feature it.

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Originally posted on December 25, 2005 @ 5:28 pm

Blog Herald publishes list of 10 most interesting people

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Blog Herald has published a list of the 10 Most Interesting People in the Blogosphere:

3. Jason Calacanis, Weblogs Inc., (AOL)

Jason made the list last year, but this year he makes it for another reason, legitimising the value of blogs as a serious and profitable media play by selling Weblogs Inc., for a rumored $25 million to AOL.

4. Michelle Malkin

This right of center political blogger where’s a similar teflon coat to that of Mena Trott, but the rubbish thrown at her by her enemies in the left make the criticism levelled a Mena look like a English tea party. Malkin continues to grow from strength to strength and now regularly features in the top 10 lists of blogs. There is apparently no stopping this amazing powerhouse of the political blogosphere.

5. David Krug (aka Liberal Cowboy), Jack of All Blogs & the Team at Go Flock Yourself

The rise of the anti-Web 2.0/ blogosphere spin bloggers are best typified by Liberal Cowboy and the blogger or bloggers behind Go Flock Yourself, leading the charge against what some would consider to be the ruling elite of the blogosphere and their marketing/ Web 2.0 newspeak (or is that newspeakr?)

Originally posted on December 26, 2005 @ 7:45 am

More 9rules sites

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In our earlier post, looks like we didn’t read through the NetNewsWire list carefully, here are some more 9rules sites:

Retro Thing:

Retro Thing occupies a dusty old virtual warehouse in a forgotten corner of the Internet. Each week I dig up a few forgotten pieces of vintage technology and put them out on show. It’s getting hard to find many classic items, but I’ll do my best to track down sources and ideas for getting your hands on forgotten old cameras, computers, turntables and whatchamacallits. Of course, this is all a pathetic ruse to hide the simple truth: I’m hopelessly addicted to old gadgets.

Podcast Free America:

Podcast Free America is website that promotes podcasting for everyone. Podcasts are hip, cool and getting a lot of attention. However, most of the talk of podcasting is very technical and geeky. Podcast Free America hopes to bridge that gap with simple help guides and writing on non-technical applications of podcasting.

Originally posted on December 21, 2005 @ 4:44 pm

New Network: Weblug

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Our intrepid group of blog network detectives have found this new blog network: Weblug.

Apparently they are also having some uptime issues: see here and here.

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Originally posted on December 21, 2005 @ 4:37 pm