Steve Gillmor wrote a great article about IE's recent security problems leading to more success for RSS. " At some point, perhaps as early as Inauguration Day, IE--and the Web--will be subsumed by the RSS platform."
Derek sent me an email yesterday with an interesting bootstrap to aggregating multiple rss feeds into a single feed:
FYI, what I've seen a lot of conferences, etc., do (which is similar to what you want) is to offer a trackback ping URL that sites can ping which will automatically aggregate their content, and then offer a RSS feed for all the trackback'ed entries.
I write $MY_STORY, and ping $YOUR_TRACKBACK_URL
The ping adds $MY_STORY to $DNC_AGGREGATED_PAGE
$DNC_AGGREGATED_PAGE also updates $DNC_RSS_FEED
It works pretty well in those situations, and people who are blogging a conference are usually eager to have people read their stuff, so they voluntarily enter the trackback pings.
Convention Coverage, another view. In Convention Coverage is a Failed Regime and Bloggers Have Their Credentials, Jay Rosen writes: As far as I know, no one has a convincing notion of what a political convention is , anymore, or why 15,000 people are there to cover it.
He goes on to talk about the convention as either a news event or a media event. This feeds into the discussion going on about how journalistic the bloggers will or should be.
Kos writes: For Jerome and me, this will be our second convention coverage, as the California Democratic Party took the risk of giving us both creds for their 2003 convention . . . Jerome talks about our experience here, including links to our coverage of the event
The first convention I went to was the nominating convention for Diane Farrell.
The second convention I attended was for my wife, Kim Hynes. It had all the weight and significance of a First Communion.
Democracy is too important to be left to elite cronies. It requires the participation of all Americans, and bloggers are a great example of average Americans getting involved in the discourse. [Greater Democracy]
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I would be remiss at this juncture if I did not mention the Librarians for Kerry-Edwards Yahoo group that has been picking up steam lately. In the interests of full disclosure I'd like to say that while the Kerry-Edwards ticket has my support, Kucinich or Dean were really who I was rallying for. I've embraced national level voting for tactical reasons lately. [thanks kathleen]
Hi. I hear that there are six "lady bloggers" at the DNC but like much else at this point, it's just so much hearsay. I plan to use this opportunity to, among other things, answer "reference" questions about the whole event in case anyone is interested. I'm overwhelmed even thinking about it, so back to the daily parade of links.
Building the Democratic Party. Rick Perlstein has an excellent piece that covers why the Democratic party has got to get back to building reasons for people to define themselves Democrats. In it he compares the image problems that the Democrats have to the problems... [Pacific Views]
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