Incoming college students are already blogging.

Gnomedex Does "Blogs in the Classroom". [T]he even bigger news was that there was a presentation on "Blogs in the Classroom" as well! Kathy Gill at the University of Washington gave it, and she gave some surprising stats about the blog knowledge of her incoming students: 89% had sipped the blog juice in one form or another, but only 7% had even heard of Flickr. Sheesh.

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9:45:09 AM    
  

Microsoft giving a major boost to syndication.

Brent Simmons: "Will Microsoft's support of RSS help make syndication more and more popular? Yes indeed, and that's a good thing." [Scripting News]

9:40:15 AM    
  

More reaction to Microsoft RSS announcement.

Microsoft's RSS announcements continue getting reactions.

My comments are down again. Sorry.

The reaction to MS's RSS announcements continue to roil the Internet:

Marc Canter (the guy who started Macromedia): "Incredible things happened!"

Marc, I agree, but the credit doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the RSS team who coded this stuff. I hate it when other people get credit for the work I did late at night. This team has been busting their behinds to get this done. They rock in my book.

Steve Rubel is asking "what default RSS feeds will IE7 and Longhorn carry?" Excellent question. Not mine for one. I'm not broad enough. I vote for the New York Times. They are the big journalism name that first supported RSS.

WeBreakStuff joins the crew who think Microsoft messed up: Why Microsoft is wrong about RSS.

Brent Simmons (the guy who wrote the best Macintosh-based RSS aggregator): Fun at Gnomedex. "Will Microsoft’s support of RSS help make syndication more and more popular? Yes indeed, and that’s a good thing, and so I’m glad."

Rick Segal answers back the Head Lemur with a long post. "I'm either a disgruntled X employee or a kool-aid drinking shill depending on how you read this."

Bill de hÓra: Expect better.

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