Wednesday, March 26, 2003

News.com on RSS traction News.com ran this piece about growth in the use of RSS as a non-news format. This is a theme many of us are tracking. What will be the first truly broad killer app to use this? [Jeremy Allaire's Radio] Yeah, I see the same mindshift happening as well. Syndication is the jewel of the weblog phenom. Will I be subscribing to my refrigerator someday? 11:22:46 AM

DEBKA and misinformation Howie Kurtz in the Washington Post reports on how independent sites like DEBKA can publish bogus news updates based on rumor. Bloggers might see this as big media picking on new, indie media, but I think Kurtz is right. [JD's New Media Musings] I think he's right as well. You've got to check your sources. 11:14:35 AM