Wired News has an interview with Arrianna Huffington whose site, The Huffington Post, an experiment in citizen journalism, in its first month had 700,000 visitors. It now has 1.5 million readers a month looking at 10 million pages.

Reuters reports that Wikipedia, already the most popular reference site on the web, is overtaking many news sites in traffic terms. Hitwise says traffic has gone up 154% over the past year. I know Wikipedia isn’t exactly a blog, but it’s in the same category, so it’s interesting…

In the tech world it is now quite commonplace for people to set up a tag on Flickr for a conference or gathering of some kind and for participants to post pictures of the event, such as these of Microsofts Professional Developers Conference 05.

PaidContent.org has an interesting account of developments in “community publishing” in the US.

InformationWeek is running a story about the impact that blogs are having on b2b media.

Micro Persuasion has some good tips for bloggers.

Memeorandum (sic) is a new service from Gabe Rivera, an ex-Intel programmer which aims to do for blogs what Google News does for news. At present the service covers only politics and current affairs and technology but it’s likely other categories will be added over time. It’s updated automatically very regularly and gives a very good top-level overview of what is being talked about in the blogsphere. For those of you who follow blogs, this is the “awesome” softward that Robert Scoble (the Microsoft Blogger Scobleizer) has been raving about without identifying for the past couple of months.

Column by PC Magazine: Podcasting: The Next Big Thing: “There is no doubt in my mind that podcasting is not only here to stay but will also shortly threaten established media broadcast systems. It’s not so much that they will all be destroyed by homebrew networks, but podcasts will be taking away just enough listeners to be a major concern.”

Seth Godin has produced a new (free) ebook on blogging…

‘The State’ a subsidiary of Knight Ridder has launched an experiment in citizen journalism called thecolumbiarecord.com after a now-defunct real-world newspaper. They have hired 25 local experts to blog various topics.