Wikimania

The annual conference has started, in Boston, and all the big wheels of the blogosphere are there. Dave Winer lists the ones in the room with him, and among them, the News Division's Gary Prince and Jessica Baumgart, talking about research on the Web. Cool.
There's a blog on the Wiki. Rex Hammock is on the way. Doc Searls links to others blogging the conference.

Speaking of Rex Hammock, he has an interesting post on a topic I've discussed here often: the importance of links on blogs. Apparently there is a lot of varying opinion about this.
Not from Technorati's Dave Sifry, who says in a Wired article about How to Make Your Blog Popular:

Link, link, link!