Bill Humphries has set up Con dot Jose, a TrackBack enabled metablog for those attending and posting about WorldCon:ConJosé. In addition to standard MT TrackBack functionality, Bill has enabled Non-MT users to be able to ping to site.

The BlogMD Initiative has been launched, "devoted ... to advancing the work of making the Blogosphere an easier neighborhood to get around in". We're all for defining (and following) standards in APIs and metadata across weblogging tools. We look forward to seeing and implementing the ideas that the initiative produces.

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The newly redesigned Blogroots has a new TrackBack-enabled section of the site called Blogpopuli. Paul Bausch, one of Blogroot's creators, writes:

"We hope it becomes a central space for collecting news related to weblogs. Using TrackBack, any weblog author can contribute to the flow of weblog information by pinging our server when they post about weblogs."

They've also put up a nicely compiled how-to for their users and a web form for non-MT users to ping.

So, if you're weblogging about weblogging, make sure to check out Blogpopuli.