While we're preparing to publish several important news about TWP (technical partners, plot, time schedule and more!) here is an interesting story via SmartMobs.

A couple of interesting tools that you can use to to monitor what is happening on Del.icio.us about TheWeblogProject.

You can use these bookmarklets to simply check the TWP popularity or also to monitor the TWP "top 20 bloggers" election

This nice piece of code is by Alan Taylor.
It's a del.icio.us comments bookmarklet that shows you notes that people have made on any page that you're visiting.

It was surprising to visit today the web site Repubblica.it (one of the 3 most important italian portal/newspaper) and find.. the face of Robin in the home page !

They have dedicated an extensive coverage that you can read here (sorry is in italian...).

Massimo took also a short video capture that you can see here (if you're a real maniac TheWeblogProject supporter !).

As you know TheWeblogProject film will also include interviews to Top 20 bloggers you think we should interview, as they are in your opinion, the ones that have best understood the value and potential of blogging, and wuld be the best ones to evangelise and increase awareness about the blog universe to outsiders.

You can add yourself or you can vote a blogger here.

If you want to subscribe to TheWeblogProject Delicious RSS feed (to monitor what's happening on Delicious), this is the link.

In the next few days we'll publish several important information about:
- screenplay
- film time table (schedule, dates, etc.)
- sponsors and supporters

If you have ideas or suggests about these issues...you're welcome.

Stay tune and as always send your video !

TheWeblogProject is receiving in the last 3 days an amazing attention by all the Italian media.
Here you can find few links in the "Google News" Italian version.

Reuters has an article with an interview to TheWeblogProject team, that you can read here.
Also Ansa (= let's say the Italian AP), Yahoo and Virgilio (one of the most famour Italian website) announced the project.

We have added a new section dedicated to our Sponsors.

We'll list in this section people and companies helping/supporting TheWeblogProject.

Whilst many bloggers start talking about TheWeblogProject (thanks , thanks, thanks !) here is just a small idea.

A simple icon for all the bloggers willing to support the project:

You can send to us a clip, audio, music or video about blogs...now!

Remember that interviews to Top 20 bloggers elected by you will be only part of the movie; all the rest will be produced by collecting video clips from bloggers around the world.

Consider that we will be collecting video clips from all bloggers around the world.

Anyone can submit a clip; no registration, no fee, no nothing.

I guess we owe it to the interested would-be participants and supporters of this project to clarify our position relative to the money involved and to the openness of this initiative to bloggers at large, and independently of any payment.

a) We are not here to make money with this project.
We are asking some financial support to make all of the ambitious ideas in this project possible without us having to get into trouble.

The money we receive and spend is going to be transparently accounted for here on the site.
Who donates will become an official sponsor and will be permanently listed in the credits of the movie, and if we spend any money we receive from you, we will clearly state for what we have spent it.

b) Anyone (blogger) can participate in this project.
There is no money to be paid to send us your clip.
There is no money to be paid to contribute your news or to elect the bloggers you would like us to interview in the wiki.

TheWeblogProject has been just launched and we're receiving an amazing support from all over the world.

Special thanks to: Loic Le Meur, Scoble, Marketingstudies, Enrique Dans, The Blog Herald.

Doesn't happen every day to be Smartmobbed...

Today is one of these days :)

Thanks to Gerrit Visser and to all the Howard Rheingold Smartmobs staff.

We've received such a good email from Paul O'Flaherty (Blog Resource) that we've asked him if we could repost it.

Here it is:

Alec and I would like to express our support for you guys in your project and were thinking that we could help you guys out with a little bit of promotion.

With your permission we'd like to add "TheWeblogProject" to our database of blogs, and also make it "Blog of the Week" next Wednesday. Also, we'd like to give it a mention in our Podcast next week.