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Scoble ranks types of RSS feeds by what they include, but he misses a few points along the line. Headline-only feeds with ads are his worst. I would ask… worse than no feeds at all? As fast as things are changing, the lack of a feed or feeds is still an issue for many, many [...]

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I’m not politically active, and I rarely share my opinions in a public forum, though I vote every time. But I do find the occasional issue which rouses me. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join me (and many others) in opposing a pedestrian/bicyclist tax on the Golden Gate Bridge. The [...]

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Time to jump back into some fun reading, so I polished off Sharpe’s Company in a couple of days. These Sharpe novels from Bernard Cornwell are so straightforward, with few surprises, but I still enjoy them. I turn pages almost as fast as I would with a Dick Francis novel (the gold standard, in many [...]

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Jon Krakauer‘s Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith sat on the to-read pile for quite some time. Then, once started, it lingered a while as I tried (in vain) to keep up with the daily flow of blogs and newspapers as well as the weekly/monthly flow of magazines. (Yes, for all [...]

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Nothing against Salon, but I haven’t been there in a while. Maybe their link-up with Technorati for showing what’s being blogged about will remind me to visit more often. [Via Rich] I think this blog roundup page works well, taking a single-site page like The Pulse (most talked about stories on-site at News.com), and using [...]

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Jim Fallows, writing in the New York Times article “Finally, Sisyphus, There’s Help for Those Internet Forms,” explains why real people should be interested in Ajax, or whatever Microsoft, Macromedia (Adobe?), or any other company wants to call the combination of technologies which is making the web more like desktop applications. For those in the [...]

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Today’s Thomas Friedman column, “Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?,” continues on his globalization theme, and reinforces that America is falling behind in many ways. He quotes a sentence from this CNET News.com article U.S. slips lower in coding contest. On April 7, CNET News.com reported the following: “The University of Illinois tied for 17th [...]

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Ten days ago, I noted that the BBC was going to pour petrol on their RSS efforts. Today, the official announcement came out. The license terms are reasonable, if still a bit long. I wonder if Creative Commons has an appropriate license which fits the desired needs here? I’ve often wondered why CC doesn’t expand [...]

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So Charlie Cooper reacts (negatively) to the podcast hype, welcomes a tip, and exchanges views with Dan Bricklin. Then I get home and see that Vin Crosbie offers a new business model for podcasting, tongue firmly in cheek. I know the news cycle is accelerating, but now we have the backlash almost before the phenomenon [...]

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Talk about your high-end geekery… I’m listening to an audio recording of Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google Inc, from his WWW2005 talk “News in the Age of the Web.” The recording is courtesy of Kathy Gill from the University of Washington. Her blog is WiredPen. Audio really isn’t enough… low-fi, and a mild accent. [...]

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