Monday, March 1, 2004

> Rogers Cadenhead: Writing for the Associated Press, Anick Jesdanun has a mind-boggling take on a Pew Internet survey about the prevalence of weblogging, file-sharing, and other activities on the Internet. Pew conducted a phone poll of 2,500 American adults who use the Internet, finding that from 2 to 7 percent publish a weblog or online journal... Does anyone still wonder why amateurs are creating their own media?
[Workbench]   3:43:10 PM  Link  Google It!  
> John VanDyk: The placement of news on Google News is often humorous. For example, today the headline Wave of Bagle and Netsky Worm Variants Hit [Windows] is just above Microsoft Shows Off New Security Features.
[View from an Iowa Homestead]   3:26:02 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Phil Windley: Utah's Division of Purchasing has an RSS feed of current solicitations. This is an RSS version of the current bids page. Of course, the good news is that if you're interested in following Utah RFPs and know how to use anaggregator, they'll just show up on your desktop without having toremember to go and check the page. I wish they had a "what's this?" link next to the RSS link to tell people about how to use RSS. If more states had RSS feeds of their solicitations, you could do some nice work with a filtering aggregator to deliver customized solicitation notices for multiple jurisdictions. Since solicitations frequently have addendums and updates, there's a need for extensions that consistently render the solicitation number or some other correlating information sothat addendums can be linked to the original solicitations.
[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]   3:20:12 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Dave Winer: You are invited to BloggerCon II, on April 17, 2004.
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