Are you in the New York City area and looking for an interesting project? We are looking for an intern here at the Lafayette Project. Job description follows:

The Lafayette Project is looking for an intern with geek tendencies and an interest in bringing weblogs to a wider audience. Familiarity with weblogs and some technical knowledge (XHTML + CSS, or Java) is required but a willingness to learn is more important than experience.

Work will mostly involve coding and testing, other assorted tasks as necessary. You'll also have the opportunity to meet folks in the tech industry and attend events. The position is based in Tribeca (Manhattan, NY) and you will work directly with the Project Director, Meg Hourihan, and Lead Engineer Mark Wilkie. Meg co-founded the company behind weblogging tool Blogger (recently purchased by Google) and is an author and frequent speaker on weblogs. The position can be part or full-time and a modest stipend is available. Please submit a resume and cover letter to meg@megnut.com with the subject LP intern.

I've been invited to contribute to Jason's sidebar of "Remaindered Links" for the next few weeks. I've been posting up a storm, though my contributions aren't distinguished from Jason's so you'll have to guess who's whose. I like the idea of being able to point to something neat without having to write about why it's neat. Perhaps if this experiment goes well, I'll add my own remaindered links to megnut. In the meantime, be sure and check in there for links on things like CSS, hypertext, and the American Chestnut Foundation.

Update: Mike writes in to point out that if you read the remaindered links via an RSS reader, you get the author information because it's in the feed. So there you go, not so secret after all.

I've found some more information about today's weblog roundable on the eNarrative site (well actually my mom did, thanks mom!) The session is entitled, "weblog to webtale: living and writing as electronic art" and will take place at 3 PM in the Raab Auditorium at the Boston Public Library. In addition to me, there will be: George P. Landow (Hypertext 2.0), Dave Winer (Radio Userland), Noah Wardrip-Fruin (The New Media Reader), Mark Bernstein (Tinderbox), and George Fifield (Boston Cyberarts Festival). Oh, and it's free!

With a lot of references to last month's Emerging Tech conference, Guardian writer Jack Schofield examines the hype around social software:

Social software is the next big thing: everybody's talking about it. A lot of people are developing exciting new programs to aid social interaction. Social software is being massively overhyped. It's just a sideshow run by a few geeks with a tenuous grip on reality.

When Evan and I started Pyra, we worked in my living room for the first three months or so. While that was fun, there was something really special when we got our own office space and moved to SOMA. Somehow it felt more official, and I remember how my enthusiasm and productivity soared when we set up our new shop.

On Friday the Lafayette Project relocated to its new space (no longer on Lafayette St., is a name change in order?) and again I feel the elation and amazing sense of potential. Mark and I now occupy the end of a large loft, next to big old windows looking out onto the streets of TriBeCa. We have walls on which to hang our numerous diagrams, flows, charts, and models. We even have a meeting table! With my increased productivity, I may just have the whole thing built by the end of the day! 🙂

Woah, Gary Hart has a weblog. And a blogroll too! Very cool. [via B-May]

OK, before I lose my mind and tear apart everything on my desk, I thought I would turn to the wonderful world wide web for some help. I'm trying to do some CSS-based tabs. I want them to work in the major browsers (read: pretty much everything but NN4). I've read a variety of articles about this, including Mark Pilgrim's Pure CSS Tabs and Mark Newhouse's CSS Design: Taming Lists, and I'm stuck. Can you help?

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If you're interested in seeing, fondling, or purchasing a new iPod in the NYC area, you'll have to wait until Friday night. The Apple store in SoHo (and I suspect the other stores as well) is having an iPod event from 6 – 10 PM with a "Live DJ, Free event poster, Limited-edition T-shirt. And more." You can also "win an awesome JBL sound system." I asked a salesman today why they didn't offer iPods at the store as soon as they were announced. He said they wanted, "to have everyone here, at once." While that may be fun (fun?) for the Apple store, it seems annoying for a curmudgeonly consumer like me. I don't want to pack into an Apple store on Friday night and hang out with a bunch of geeks and wait in a big line and be all crowded and bonked into. I just want to touch it before I buy it, and I can't do that online. Whine whine whine. I want an iPod now.

Update: Liz Phair will be at the SoHo store on Friday night. So maybe it *is* worth going! Tip from David.

Six Apart: Six Apart Ltd. Announces Close of Series "A" Financing

Six Apart Ltd. Announces the TypePad Personal Publishing Service

Six Apart Ltd. Names Anil Dash as Vice President of Business Development

Wow wow and wow! Way to go Ben and Mena!

Ludicorp has whipped together a really cool social space called Confab for ETech.

Confab is an ad-hoc conversation space mapped to the conference facility's floorplan which allows you to discuss and debate sessions live with other attendees, make contacts, send instant messages and create conversations to plan group meetings and activities.

It will be very interesting to see how well it works and what sorts of behaviors emerge during the conference.