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 Monday, March 3, 2003
TECH TALK: RSS, Blogs and Beyond: RSS Mailbox. Last week, we saw how RSS and Blogs are bringing forth a new era of microcontent and nano-publishing. This week, we will discuss a few ideas revolving around RSS and Blogs. RSS Aggregators (also known as News Readers) have been around for some time. Their popularity has been largely limited to bloggers. How can they be made to have greater mass-market appeal? It does make sense for each of us to get information (or events) pushed to us through RSS feeds that we subscribe because it amplifies our ability to process information. The idea I?d like to propose is a... [E M E R G I C . o r g]
Nice material. Aggregators are one of the big new tools and, in combination with weblogs, can change many organizations. 6:55:31 PM 
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NY Times: E-Music Sites Settle on Prices. It's a Start. But for now at least, the $10-a-month and 99-cent-a-song price list is letting the marketing side of the business take over from the deal makers. And Internet users will start to see increasing promotion for the first time for the online music services. [Tomalak's Realm]
But this is about the same price as actually owning a CD for copying. There still is some competition that needs to occur to get it closer to reality. It is a start. 6:20:56 PM
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Astroturf Marketing Hits Blogging World: "Dr Pepper hopes to develop a 'blogging network' to hype Raging Cow and 'be part of the in the know crowd,' says its brand-marketing honcho Andrew Springate. Those spreading the news via their blogs won't disclose their flackitude, says Springate, because officially they're not paid Dr Pepper employees; they only get promo items like hats and T shirts." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] [Universal Rule]
The fastest way for a blogger to lose credibility is to be shilling for something like a soda company. Transparency means you need to disclose any potential conflicts. This could be interesting. By the way, I do like Dr. Pepper but only the ones bottled in the South. The stuff up here in Seattle just does not have the same medicinal qualities. And I don;t even have a T-Shirt. 6:10:03 PM
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'The Journey of Man': Following the Genes of a Common Ancestor. Spencer Wells, a geneticist, explains how all men alive on earth today can trace their ancestry to a single African man who lived around 60,000 years ago. By Carl Zimmer. [New York Times: Science]
Another in the links indicating that all humans alive today came from a relatively small population that arose in Africa within the last 100,000. This is a story that will be one of the great tales coming out of the genetic age. 4:04:32 PM
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Writing for LivingCode seems to soak up a lot of my biotech commentary (not surprising). I'll try to include some material here, although probably without as much of my own blogging as before. 8:23:52 AM
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Experts: Copyright law hurts technology. Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree on the solution. [CNET News.com]
A nice article detailing the very real concerns of many. As usually happens with the Congresses we get now, they did not have a clue on what they were passing. apparently relying on the industry to write the DMCA. Now we are seeing it applied in areas that the industry really does not want. This legislation needs to be changed. It will make a great case study of jusy how out of synch the government has been with changes in technology. 8:09:05 AM
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Took a day off from blogging. It is so easy to make the a 24/7 sort of thing so it is good to just not think about it for a day or so. I've got some stuff to do at Lee, Hecht, Harrison (the outplacement company that Immunex provided). We have a weekly Job Search Work team every Monday. It is kind of like a self-help group of us who examine what we have done each week and try to help. This is the 3rd one I've been in. Seems I keep helping everyone else find a job ;-) 8:03:15 AM
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