Charlie RoseIs there a way to do a high quality video interview with the interviewer and interviewee in two geographical locations easily? Well, “Rosetimes” may be the answer to that question.

Rosetime is the name given to the process pioneered by Phil Shapiro over the course of this past year, involving high quality video interviews. The name is derived from the famous PBS interviewer, Charlie Rose, and the video software that has initially been proposed to create the interview, Quicktime.

“The reason I invented Rosetimes is that there are so many people in this world with important things to say, but who will never be invited into mainstream media. Their ideas are worth hearing, and the most powerful way for them to express their ideas is in video form, via interviews with each other,” said Shaprio in a Newsforge article.

MyBlogLogMyBlogLog is a Facebook-type service for blogs, and in the grand tradition of freemium web2.0 ware, is largely a free service financed on top of some for-pay statistical tracking software.

Although MyBlogLog might be paying their bills through statistical tracking, its real draw is its ability to act as another layer on top of existing blogs, creating a web of natural and transparent connections that wouldn’t normally exist.

By marrying online tracking software (its bread and butter) with personalized accounts associated with blogs, MyBlogLog is able to track where blog owners go – and moreover, see which blog owners visit particular sites. Through this tracking, they’ve created “communities” around different blogs based on the frequency a particular reader has visited a blog.

By linking blog owners to a known list of networked blogs, MyBlogLog can effectively create a social network…of blogs.