Six Apart recently received 12 Million in venture capital something company outsiders have looked at with a wary eye. This may actually turn out to be huge if as CEO Barak Berkowitz says to the Silcon Beat is even an ounce of truth.

He’s going to get a group together to fight spammers. He’s looking to press Washington to pass legislation to ban computer generated comments on blogs. Right now, computer generated spam is legal, and spammers just keep coming up with more sophisticated ways of getting around filters. “I’m going to start getting a group together to take this forward,” he said. “There’s no real advocacy group for blogs, there’s no blogging association.”

– Silicon Beat

Speaking of spam I am off to clean up another pile of it. Legislation. I’m very much for blog spam legislation.

The New York Times has uncorked a vintage. That is a blog about wine. It’s written by Eric Asimov. This should be interesting. Suprisingly Eric Asimov has a reputation here amongst restaurant owners. They have even tried to dig up dirt on the good looking chap. Mostly so they could intimidate him in the Gotti fashion. I’m thinking we now have some restaurant owners who are going to be reading his blog every morning to make sure he doesn’t mention that late night wine stop in Little Italy. Who knows. It’s going to be fun ride for Eric and the Times. I can’t wait to see it pour out.

The Pour. A blog about good wine.

Looks like we were wrong about Netscape. Instead of becoming a useful portal. It’s going to become another memetracker. Actually that’s a cool idea. As long as its a wider topic matter than Digg.

Gawker gets into trouble for empowering celebrity paparazi. Dude, who’s that guy with a camera following you Nick?

9rules Tyme White goes after Chartreuse for advertising that fell through a long time ago. I love journalistic research. Use a search engine folks before you make accusations.

Know More Media bring on Fard Johnmar to write HealthCareVox.

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Quote of the Day: “Scripting News is a boring blog written by an egomaniacal dude who really is no different than other developers out there creating cool things. So yes, Dave — please put Scripting in mothballs, or archive mode, or whatever you want to call it. We’re eagerly awaiting the day you claim you invented blog mothballs.” – The Blog 50

Just internet moments after throwing in the Blog Towel which he also invented Dave Winer, the developer turned thug has fired off his lawyer hounds on one of his developers that helped him get rich with Weblogs.com.

Truthfully, here’s my opinion. Can’t we all just get along? Dave, if you really need 5,000 dollars let’s start a fund where we can paypal you the money and when it hits 5k you will leave the internet ego game forever.

In order to not appear too biased we have Dave’s side of the story too.

Federated Media has completed its Series A financing with JP Morgan. They didn’t disclose the numbers. However it’s a good thing. I have only tons of respect for what FM has done, and what I’ve heard from publishers is only good. You can check out all the FM Publishing Sites in the Blog Network List

Federated Media has closed its Series A financing, with JP Morgan Partners (JPMP) as the lead investor. All of FM’s seed investors – the Omidyar Network, The New York Times, and several angels (my post on the first round is here), have also participated in the round. We’re not disclosing the numbers involved in the funding, but we’re thrilled with the support that the new round brings to our company.

Joining Federated’s board is Chris Albinson, a partner at JPMP who I’ve known for years. We’ve coached our sons’ little league team together, watched our daughters’ first school play together, and when the opportunity came for us to work together, we both jumped at it. Chris and his team’s network of relationships and extensive business experience has already paid significant dividends for our young company. Chris and his team are embarking on their own startup of sorts, as they are spinning out from JPMP and starting their own venture capital firm – Panorama Capital – focused on technology and life sciences.

Read the full press release

Also if you haven’t checked out Federated Media’s New Tech Portal. It’s worth a quick glance.