Frank Paynter at Sandhill Trek has been asking people this month how they blog. Cool people. Not me. Which is just as well, because I’d be tempted to make a joke (“very carefully”), or be all literal about software and processes (boring).
I don’t think I have a good answer anyway. It keeps changing. Mostly I notice stuff. I want to talk about it. I don’t have a specific person in mind I want to limit the discussion to, so I choose an appropriate blog and post there. When I see an interesting web page and I have a bookmarklet for an appropriate blog, I dash off some surrounding text and post the link.
Other times I write novels. Dirty novels. Go figure.

I’ve been asleep at the wheel lately, but the recent Typepad outage should remind everyone to keep current backups of your site, both the data and the output if possible, whether you are self-hosting or relying on a service.
Related: *michael parekh on IT*: ON TYPEPAD OUTAGES AND WEB 2.0 MORTALITY, More than a common export format.

J.D. Lasica posts about a conversation with BlogHer co-organizer about blog plagiarism, and cites a few examples of people plagiarizing newspaper ledes in their blog entries about BlogHer (New Media Musings: Plagiarism in the blogosphere).
How lame!
Also, where’s the fun in that?

Quoting from Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org)

I think it’s time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front – the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that there is a very real need to find mechanisms to knit together the world of webloggers and to allow conversations across multiple weblogs to operate effectively. We must recognise that Trackback was one of the first and most important attempts to work in that area. But Nevertheless, we have to face the fact – Trackback is dead.

Shelley Powers says don’t throw out the comment babies with the trackbathwater.
Commenters at plasticbag suggest that tagging will supplant both, but tagging is just as susceptible to spam and namespace-squatting, is it not?

In It’s Not Dangerous, Tim Bray extols the career benefits of blogging, primarily as a way to stay informed, establish expertise, and get noticed.
p.s.: His curly quotes that are being rendered as (a-with-circumflex, Euro symbol, trademark TM)? in my browser? Whose fault is that?

In gapingvoid: the death of metablogging, makes the usual points against navelgazing, rendering this weblog obsolete. I gather that metametablogging is still cool, though?