reBlog makes it easy to republish your favorite RSS (down to individual posts) to your Movable Type, WordPress, or Bloxsom blogs.

I wish I had this back when Philly Future was driven by WordPress and a custom FeedOnFeeds implementation. It would have been a huge timesaver. Out of the box Drupal/Civicspace provides this functionality – one of the reasons we use it now.

Hmmmm… I almost left Bloglines for my personal FeedOnFeeds aggregator, but Bloglines’s superior workflow won out. I gotta try this with reBlog.

But remember to watch the porn.

2257 regulations are set to go into effect June 23rd that require web sites to keep physical records on all models, specifically their ages, that they feature. While this is meant to combat child porn, the industry itself is very concerned – something as simple as record keeping might destroy many porn outlets on the web and raids might start to take place over record keeping.

If I understand correctly, sites that feature RSS aggregators like Philly Future could be at risk. Publishers of other sites post pictures in their feeds. We feature feeds direct from Flickr as well.

If Philly Future is required to keep track of the ages of every picture we display from feed publishers we are going to have to disallow pictures – we just don’t have the resources for keeping records on every picture shown. More at he American Constitution Society for Law and Policy weblog.

Congrats to those who made the AO/Technorati Open Media 100 and the runners up. Not a bad showing.

Update: David Rogers calls bullshit and Howard expresses his doubts.

What makes Ars Technica’s A History of the GUI so fascinating isn’t seeing how far we’ve gone since 1968, but how little. A must read.

Hey, Come To This Site Often?

…MySpace has become one of the hottest properties on the Web. Only 20 months old, it already has 14 million unique visitors a month, according to market researcher comScore Media Metrix. That makes it far and away the most popular of what are known as social-networking Web sites. Friendster Inc., started three years ago and at one time the clear leader, has a mere 1 million unique monthly visitors. “We’re crushing it,” says MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe, 39.

The draw? It started with music. DeWolfe’s co-founder is president Tom Anderson, a 29-year-old musician and entrepreneur, and from the beginning the site has catered to musicians. Bands can create home pages, with photos, tour dates, and as many as four songs — all for free. Marquee names like the Black-Eyed Peas, My Chemical Romance, and ex-Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan joined. That pulled in fans and their friends, who all found that MySpace offered loads of options that other sites lacked. Now, MySpace has become something akin to the hottest bar in town, teeming with musicians and models.

The Flash based The Flickr Related Tag Browser is a lot of fun.

Read the details at PaidContent.org and check it out for yourself.

A nice list of of free and open source software for various purposes at Digital Web Magazine.

Also: Check out Rafe’s ongoing series at rc3 comparing various blogging toolsets as he weighs the decision for his personal site.

Rafe, if you’re reading this, let me add a few more to the mix:

• Bloxsom – Perl (why is that a dirty word these days?), file system based simplicity.
• Roller – Java, huge developer community, used by Sun, and overall nice architecture.
• Blojsom – Java, cam use file system datastore like Bloxsom, used by Apple, clean architecture that looks easy to extend.

I may post some thoughts on this myself. The last time I attempted I got into a… ummmm.. interesting cross blog conversation.

Rafe, let me suggest you look at the health and growth of various developer communities working on these toolsets/platforms and at licensing. Licensing, in particular, cuts both ways.

Is this it?

Some interesting comments by Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web. Same rules seem to apply – post quality content that covers a subject, and be recognized (linked to) by others who are respected covering the same subject – and Google will treat you nicely.