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More great responses to some recent posts to recap, along with an interview I did a few weeks ago that seems to be pretty timely.

• eWeek's Clint Boulton offered a lengthy look at my post about The Web Way vs. The Wave Way. I think the story does a fair job of representing not just my argument, but the counterarguments from those who disagree. One highlight:

EWEEK brought the post to Google's attention August 10, looking for comment from Wave creators Lars Rasmussen and Jens Rasmussen, who built the platform in secret in their home country of Australia before unveiling it to a room of applause at Google I/O in May. However, Google declined to challenge Dash's points.

• My piece on Google Wave also marked the first time I had my work syndicated on Lifehacker. There was a really smart and lively discussion in response, with the highlight for me being the comment, "What a great article and discussion. It's feeling like old school LH in here today!" I also earned my second mention on the excellent "This Week in Google" podcast, which goes beyond just talking about the big GOOG and covers the evolution of cloud computing as well.

• J Aaron Farr posted Wave's Web of Protocols, and Eric Smith wrote PubSubHubBub Hullabaloo, both offering helpful diagrams to help explain the architecture of Google Wave and PubSubHubBub, respectively. I found both to be useful starting points for understanding these technologies if you're more of a visual thinker.

• I'd meant to include a link in my original Wave post to A Google Wave reality check, where Tom Krazit at CNET provided some interesting glimpses behind the scenes of the making of Wave. A key quote:

Google believes developer feedback is crucial to [Wave's] evolution as a product. "We wanted to get people thinking about how we're going to use it and what people are going to use it for," [Wave co-creator Lars Rasmussen] said.

• As Daniel Graversen mentioned in my own comments, he wrote a nice response called Is Wave too complicated?

• Finally, Scott Rosenberg, author of the recent blogging history "Say Everything" (which is so far very enjoyable, though I haven't finished reading it yet), answered a question about bloggers who aren't household names by responding "Is Anil Dash a household name? He’s been writing some amazing stuff lately." Thanks, Scott! There's nothing more motivating than being appreciated by smart, thoughtful people.

Jay Smooth, "Please stop calling everyone and their mother 'The First Rapper'":

U-Roy may be one of rap's predecessors, and among the influences that laid the foundation for rap, but he did not invent it...any more than Jocko Henderson, Gil Scott Heron, Lord Buckley or the West African Griots invented it. All of them may be forefathers, but none are the inventors. And muddling their places in music history with his sort of specious, sloppy revisionism does hip-hop AND its forefathers a disservice.

Scott Rosenberg talks about The First Blogger, as part of his promotion for his upcoming book "Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters":

It's interesting to contrast these points because all of blogging is hip hop.

Update: If you enjoyed Scott's video, you might enjoy the series of interviews and profiles of pioneers I did for blogging's tenth anniversary, including Dave Winer, Leslie Harpold, Michael Sippey, and Harold Check.