MS Office 2007 Beta 2: For those of you interested in trying out the blogging peices in Microsoft Office 2007 (and of course Office itself), here is your chance to download the latest beta and try it out for yourself. This version is time bombed for February 1st, 2007.

The Two Most Important Words in Blogging: The second word is “because” and here is one of the example used by the author to prove his point. Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine? 60% said OK. Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I’m in a rush? 94% said OK.

Software tracks mood swings of blogosphere: Software that tracks mood swings across the ‘blogosphere’ and pinpoints the events behind them could provide more insightful ways to search and analyse the web. Not really, since the software only looks at Livejournal blogs which does not account for all of the blogosphere and they seem to have made life easy for themselves by looking at the “mood” labels from Livejournal. I thought this would be some sort of intelligent software that could start to fathom the actual mood of the blogosphere like Internet Traffic report (in its own arena of course).

Can Bloggers Make Money? A back and forth discussion between Jason Calacanis and Alan Meckler (CEO of Jupiter Media) discussing whether making a living from blogging is a viable revenue generating method. There are way too many good examples for this to be a question anymore. Just how good one is at being a blogging entrepreneur differs from person to person.