new blogs from Brian Behlendorf and Esther Dyson

Joi Ito met Brian Behlendorf and helped Brian get blogging and get a blog. Like Joi, I first met Brian virtually via the sfraves mailing list in 92/93, though it was more wistful than real, as I lived in Belfast, rather than sunny California, still good parties in Belfast though. Brian is a great guy who I've met a couple of times, first at www94 in Geneva, then at the Paris www5 conference. He was integral in the early apache server work too. He is an avid mailing list user, something I have been in the past too. Mailing lists are a great form of community, very strong sense of community from them, much more so than many web communities I've been part of, blogging is pretty good as it retains the two way capabilites and can range over a wide variety of topics, unlike mailing lists which tend to be unitopic. I realise that is a sweeping generalization, but you get the idea.
Also, Esther Dyson now has a weblog, entitled release 4, covering the stuff she can talk about, I think it will make interesting reading, like her books.