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Sunday, June 23, 2002Today's Useful Weblogcomment []
Go see the latest useful weblog I've run across -- Dan Rosenbaum's Over the Edge. I gather from Dan's "About" page that he is a former technology columnist for UPI, now using Radio Userland to reach out to his former (and hopefully future) audience. Dan appears to know his stuff. He's the first person I've seen to really put some meat into the idea of more collaborative weblogs. Definitely worth a read. RSS Authentication Makes the Blogosphere More UsefulExcellent thoughts here on how to authenticate RSS feeds to promote the collaborative nature of weblogs. While both of these posts are thinking more along altruistic lines and general newsgathering, the principles espoused here fit quite nicely into the business arena. This holds potential to vastly improve the nature of intra-company communication if a user-friendly, transparent control mechanism can be built that will keep everything from going to everybody.
A Challenge to the 'Blog Plumbers: Making a Buck on 'Blogging and
Why Authentication In Aggregators Is Such A Good Idea Matthew Ernest goes a step further, suggesting that the existing nature of RSS feed access already supports HTML authentication and can easily be structured to support basic userid and password protection for controlled access. This is good stuff. If Matthew's ideas prove to be even partially workable I may have found reason enough to stay on the Radio bandwagon. Let's keep our fingers crossed...
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