Kinda hard to miss the above-the-fold front-page article in the Globe today about Gather.com, which aims to become the eBay of blog posts. John Daley's analysis:

What great luck for the owners of a new web startup to have a major newspaper do a front page story with color logo and direct links in the online version of the story.

Dowbrigade reports his journey to South America was interrupted by the appearance of a hole in his diaphragm, which forced a 20-hour medical-evacuation flight back home:

Lost in all the hoohah about what Tom Reilly did or didn't say based on who he did or didn't talk to about those two dead Southborough teens is the fact that Worcester County D.A. John Conte is up for re-election. Some people are not real happy about that.

When I link to somebody's post here, I try to use the blogger's first name if I know it. Why the affectation? When I started out, I thought it might be cool to try to give this meta-blog a sort of conversational coffeehouse-ish feel - if you're sitting around a table at your favorite coffee place, of course you'd address the other people by their first name.

One reader, though, thinks this is wrong:

Remember last summer how we all got sucked in by the clever viral marketing campaign to help some MIT grad student get his PhD by answering a long survey on our blogging habits? Remember how some of us even put his oh-so-cute buttons on our blogs to help spur traffic to the survey? Remember how he said he would eventually post the results?

He didn't. Instead, he tells Bostonist he's too busy with his new job - at Yahoo. One hopes not in the Weblog department.

I just sign-up this Free service.  Some of their multimedia features caught my interest are:

- an online video blogging feature: simply drag & drop videos and publish instantly,

- an online recording for podcast: you can even record Skype conversation and use it for your own podcasting, 

- another interesting feature is the "Audio slideshow" - you just need to upload your digital photos and record some narration online, you then got a
"Talkingslideshow; It's great for Show' N Tell your stories.

At least, some of the time. Dan Gillmor yesterday announced the formation of the non-profit Center for Citizen Media. Although it'll be based in the San Francisco area, Gillmor says the center will be affiliated with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society - and that he'll be in Cambridge at least once a month:

... We also plan to sponsor regular gatherings at both locations (and, I hope, elsewhere in my travels) for people interested in citizen journalism. ...

Tim declares:

As I washed paint off my hands this afternoon, I reflected: You can always tell the housebloggers among us. They are the ones who have to finish priming and painting a wall before they can put up their Christmas tree in front of it. ...

Krissy dreams about writing a blog post. Jay reports two nights of dreams about specific bloggers.

Hmm, now what if they both read this and dream about meeting each other?