You might have remembered that we forced our publisher to start a blog before we’d sign the contract to do Naked Conversations with Wiley. The resulting blog by Joe Wikert has been most impressive over the past year. I saw he linked to Juliana Aldous at Microsoft. She gave me a lot of advice before I started working on the book and I don’t know how I missed her blog for so long. It’s good too. What do these blogs do? They give you a place to start a relationship as an author. Get tips. Learn about how they see the industry. And, if you have an idea for a book you now have two people to talk with.

Any other great book publishers blogging out there? Here’s another one: Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. How about Tim O’Reilly? Gary Cornell of APress? Who is your favorite book publishing blogger?

I was just reading John Engler’s blog, Inluminent, and he said “I LOVE READING GUY KAWASAKI!!!” Can I join this club?

One thing, though. Guy hasn’t even discovered how to have conversations on the Web yet. When he does it’ll be scary.

Take a bunch of C#/ASP.NET developers, add in some music, a camcorder, and Google video and this is what results: Patch Me Up by the geek band, Rootkit. Thanks to Diego Barros (friend of these geeks) for sending that over. We should have these guys play at Mix06.