How many feeds would you pay for? I have just subscribed to technorati.com to get my Link Cosmos as an RSS feed. Interesting service, but I still have to understand if it's worth $10 per year. Anyway, I think that the real news here is that for the very first time I'm paying to get an RSS feed into my aggregator. Here's an interesting excercise: go trough the feeds you are currently subscribed to, how many would you pay for? [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Yeah this is my feeling too.  I suggest to them that I would be unlikely to pay $5/yr when we were talking about e-mail.  Not because I think that it is too much individually, but that if I like it I don't want to be paying $275/yr when I hit 75 feeds.  I think something $25/yr for unlimited feeds would be more the mark.

Paolo makes a good point though.  He's ponying up some dough for an RSS feed.  This is a milestone.

GooglePeople

"Welcome to GooglePeople! Try one of the example questions, or let your imagination go wild!

GooglePeople shows that with simple, yet effective, text mining techniques, answers to specific questions can be extracted from the vast data repository.

[Ralph Poole's Weblog]

Okay an easy one to start with:

GooglePeople is very confident that the answer to your question who is the godfather of soul? is:

James Brown

Let's try something harder:

GooglePeople is not sure it found the answer to your question "who is the best jazz guitar player?", but listed below are some possibilities to investigate.

Name	Confidence
Rock Guitar Player	* *
Joe Pass	*
John Scofield	*

No mention of Django Reinhardt so no points there.

How about:

GooglePeople is not sure it found the answer to your question "who is the best blogger?", but listed below are some possibilities to investigate.

Name	Confidence
Bill Clinton	*
Al Gore	*
Walter Mondale	*
Pat Buchanan	*

I'm not sure this thing is ready for prime time yet ;-)

If You Love Your Tivo then Contact the FCC! Even I Did It.

If You Love Your Tivo then Contact the FCC!  Even I Did It

I see that folks like Dave and Scoble love their Tivos and I hope they make their voices heard by following the directions below.  The FCC has received very few comments which means we could well get digital content controls right in the TV set -- and then it'll be a short time until they hit the PC.  Covered below is what to do.  And, yes, even I bothered to do this (and I'm like the most politically unmotivated person on the planet.

Click here to make your voice heard. [_Go_]

,
Joe Kraus, Co-Founder DigitalConsumer.org

[The FuzzyBlog!]

I don't have or even want a TiVo (i'm looking to watch less and less television, not more) and I'm not in the US so I don't know if it counts, but I have registered with the FCC.  On a point of principle I hope lots of UK people will do it.

--Addendum--

I've just had my submission rejected by the FCC because my State and Zip Code are not valid.  So I guess they're not interested in what the rest of the world thinks about their decisions.  That's a pity because they have much wider implications than just for the US consumer market.