Sunday, February 15, 2004

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Letter to The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology Mediaburn e-mailed the following letter on internet content syndication today to The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto: Dear McLuhan Program, This letter is sent to encourage the McLuhan Program to research and exercise consideration in its use of internet syndication formats. The Atom syndication format is an attempt to develop a format to the exclusion of the users and developers who have supported the RSS format. Atom is by design not compatible with RSS, the media technology largely responsible for the growth and inter-networking of weblogs. I discourage the McLuhan Program from using Atom, which is specifically designed not to work with RSS and appears predatory in nature. As such, Atom seems inconsistent with the mandate of the McLuhan Program. I am not affiliated with the author of RSS or Harvard University, who offers the specification. I am an independent electronic publisher in Arizona who is using RSS. In addition to your own research, I believe syndication formats are a media topic to consider for discussion on the McLuhan Program Weblog. Sincerely, Gary Santoro Editor Mediaburn.net 12:46:31 PM

Noted Dean Blogger ~ MathewGross.com Never Apologize, Never Explain-- But Maybe Expand a Bit. Back in my college days at Chapel Hill I'd make the obligatory drive home to my parents' in New Hampshire during the holidays. I was trying to remember before I left this morning whether it typically took me 14 or... [Mathew Gross] 9:03:10 AM

Joe Trippi on 'Transformational' Versus Transactional Leadership I disagree on one of Trippi's points in this essay. I believe the two-party system been has proven ineffective. If both parties are working on transactions instead of transformation, as he puts it, something is seriously dysfunctional with both parties. - G.S. Post #5 Transformational Leadership. I believe that there is an unvanquished hunger and almost limitless need to transform our country among the American people, and that what we have lacked for too long is transformational leadership. We have fallen into a sustained era of... [Change for America] 8:57:55 AM