I recently started seeing blogmaps showing up on people's blogs, and immediately I liked this concept. It's fun being able to see the location of the bloggers around you.

Apple announced this morning that iTunes now supports podcast downloads, and a new podcast section at the iTunes music store.

"Let's see; Fun...Reality. Fun...Reality. Hmmmmm" --Game Designer Patricia Pizer

Updating as we go. Supremes have ruled 9-0 in favor of the studios in MGM v Grokster. But does the decision have wider import? Is it a death knell for tech? It's starting to look like the answer is no ....

An update from Gnomedex, day two: Mind Maps, Julie Leung & personal blogging, and tomorrow's RSS

Hobie Swan from MindJet Software kicked off this morning's Gnomedex with a demo of Mind Manager, a really cool mind mapping application.

Notes from the morning sessions at Gnomedex, in Seattle, WA.

Dean Hachamovitch, GM of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team is here to tell us that Microsoft gets RSS, and gets it big. So big they want it to permeate Longhorn.

Dave Winer presented the opening keynote in a style he called bloglike, which means he provided a title and description of the talk, and let the rest of the keynote be driven by "comments" and "trackbacks" from him and the crowd.

Gnomedex 5.0 kicks off in Seattle this morning (June 24) at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. The topics being blogged about include Blogging (self-referential and otherwise), RSS, Podcasting, etc.