I guess Scoble didn’t receive the memo: If Microsoft employees don’t use the word “podcast,” explain this and this. Okay, I’ll explain it: Scoble knows how silly it is to spit into the wind.

GoogleFight: Podcast vs. Blogcast.

Flashback: Back in March, I went through my “blogcasting, not podcasting” phase.

(via: Northwest Noise)

Blog this article, please: ZDNet.com has a link at the bottom of each story that invites readers to “blog this.” The link takes you to a copy-and-paste, pre-formated blog post. Here’s an example of their suggested post for a recent Steve Gillmor piece. It’s like a feature I use in MarsEdit, except the ZDNet folks have pre-written some copy.

(via: B.L. Ochman, who doesn’t really care for the idea. She says, “ZD Net thinks bloggers will want to be told what to write, what links to use and how to format their posts? Not this blogger. But I bet they will get lots of takers.”)

BBC: “All of a sudden, the blog turned out to be the ideal news resource.”

(via: B.L. Ochman)

Can you have an open-source business startup? These guys are experimenting with the idea.

(via: Business2 Blog)

What Fortune Magazine said: “Podcasting is simultaneously a rebellion against the blandness of commercial radio, a demonstration of time shifting for radio, just as TiVo allows time shifting for television, and a celebration of the Internet’s power to let individuals offer their own voices to a global audience.”

(via: MacDailyNews.com)

SearchEngineWatch.com: “How Americans search.”

Those cheers are from political junkies: The HotLine’s Blogometer has been liberated from HotLine’s four-figure cost wall. (Their description: “The Blogometer is a daily report from The Hotline taking the temperature of the political blogosphere. The Blogometer appears in The Hotline’s subscription-only tip sheet and at http://blogometer.nationaljournal.com/ [(XML] every weekday at noon.”)

(via Patrick Ruffini)

Heather Green asks: Is Blog Plagiarism Growing–and are the Fakes Convincing?

CBSNews.com: Reinventing itself as “24-hour on-demand broadband news service.” (PDF of press release). Will include “The Public Eye” blog, “aimed at transparency.”

(From PaidContent.org - Great reporting, Staci.)

Wow: Paul Chenoweth has put together a video of Nashville’s WKRN Video 101 training session for Nashville-area bloggers. He obviously wants to be teacher’s pet. I’d still like to see Tim Morgan & Aunt B’s version as they were shooting a sci-fi thriller.

Cluetraining: Doc Searls is displaying how to get all the facts out when a company is under attack. (The company is Technorati and he’s an advisor. His long post explains the controversy.)