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FeedBurner is live, out of beta, the successor to their pre-alpha. Congrats to Dick, Eric, Steve, and Matt… and anyone else who’s joined the crew.

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CNET Networks makes the top 10 of this year’s Media 50, as designated by B2B Magazine. Chas gets quoted in the CNET write-up. Only weirdness is the web navigation on the B2B site, where each of the top 10 shows up as a link labelled Media 50 in the right-hand navigation… not very informative. I [...]

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Pete Clifton is the editor of the BBC News website, and he’s promising a “revolution” in RSS after the UK election.
We’ve been a bit cautious about [RSS] up to now. “Personal use only” has been the mantra, but after a lengthy discussion with the BBC’s editorial policy department we are about to free things up.
So [...]

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Via Dennis, I see that TechDirt was chronicled in the, well, Chronicle. I missed this in the paper edition, so I’ll have to check the recycling bin.
Dennis, I know we all share a lot on these blogs, but I don’t think anyone wants you to get TechDirty, no matter where you are working.

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The ill-named FreeNews is a mobile RSS reader for phones which support Java. But it’s not free. Read this thorough review from Robin Good, which has a list of other readers, too. Cherish his comment in the “To Improve” section re: FreeNews:
Find a catchier, less common and ambiguous name for the product.
Guess we need to [...]

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A welcome result from my Technorati search: finding Ken Norton’s new blog. And, through that, Suzanne Galante’s blog. Subscribed!

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I missed the lunchtime concert today with The Court & Spark, but happy first birthday to Download.com Music. Maybe I’ll find something to put on the shuffle…

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According to BlogPulse, part of Intelliseek, News.com is #9 in the list of most cited sources in the blogosphere. That’s nice to see. BlogPulse.com Detects Shift in Top Personalities, Blogs, News Sources Cited by Bloggers. On the list there’s one portal (Yahoo News, at the top), five newspapers (led by NYT), three television stations (led [...]

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Last week, I bought the cheapest Shuffle, with the idea of (a) listening to some podcasts and (b) learning what all the fuss is about, both with the iPod and podcasts. Despite coming in a very large box for such a tiny device, the Shuffle is all that I expected. That’s a good thing. However, [...]

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The authors of Connotea, which I’ve never heard of, write an academic (peer-reviewed?) Social Bookmarking Tools (I) – A General Review. Useful, chock-full of links/examples, and not academic in the dry sense. In the same issue of D-Lib Magazine (also never heard of), the same authors give a more detailed exploration/explanation of their own service [...]

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