Fixing RSS's public-relations problem. Yesterday I spoke with two acquaintances, both of whom have decades-long track records in the high-tech biz, and neither of whom has ever used an RSS newsreader. When I mentioned RSS as an alternative to mailing lists, both said the same thing: "But I don't have time to visit 30 different websites in order to find things out." Of course, that is exactly the problem that RSS solves. And has been solving, for me, since 1999. ... [Jon's Radio] 
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Ryan Pitts: "Why do each of us read our own list of bloggers? Because they point us in interesting directions and they filter information... We test our preconceptions against theirs, and come out better informed." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging]

I'll second that. Thank you all! 
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Rafat Ali breaks the story that there's been an acquisition in blog media: "Andy Bourland is back... he has scooped up two media properties: Adventive, the family of business-oriented discussion groups; and MarketingFix, Rick Bruner and the gang's group-blog on online marketing." [Corante: aa Corante on Blogging] 
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William Gibson: "In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner." [Scripting News] 
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Stallman on GNU/Linux. CNet has an amusing commentary from Richard Stallman about the confusion between the GNU operating system and the Linux kernel whose development was started much later by Linus Torvalds. The point is that the kernel is only a small part of the operating system and in Unix-like operating systems can generally be changed with relatively little difficulty. You could certainly have a "Linux" system that looked exactly the same as it does today but did not use the Linux kernel or any Linux code. "Linux itself is no longer essential: the GNU system became popular in conjunction with Linux, but today it also runs with two BSD kernels and the GNU kernel," says Stallman.

Background: see my 1998 interview with RMS, originally published in Online though I can't find it on the Guardian's site. [onlineblog.com] 
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What are we doing here?.

So we have Emerson, Franklin and Pepys among the ancestors of bloggers.

Now Kevin reminds me this morning that Marcus Aurelius contributed some early DNA. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 
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Berlin marks Kennedy rally. The German capital celebrates the 40th anniversary of John F Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition]

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The general sentiment in Germany towards the US has changed a great deal since the days of JFK. In fact, I'm not too sure whether the present climate on the European continent it is sufficiantly understood in America today.

To gain a sense of the widespread bitter emnity felt here toward the erstwhile liberators, one only has to glance through the countless comments posted in German forums around the web....

Who knows where all this will lead? 
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AdSense previewer. Aaron Swartz has ginned up a Google AdSense previewer. Enter the URL of your page and it will give you a sample of the kinds of Google Ads you'd get if you put them on that page.

Link

Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Vatican unveils virtual tour. The Vatican offers a virtual tour of the famous Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo as part of upgrades to its website. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition] 
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Design According to Ive. At the launch of Apple's new Power Mac G5, Wired News was granted an exclusive tour of the new machines by Jonathan Ive, Apple's lead industrial designer. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 
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Feed Money Fast.

Tim is on a roll today.  His "MakeMoneyFast" post (actually the title is "$$$$!"), he writes about his experiment with Google's new AdSense program.  He made almost $16 in two days.  Cool.  AdSense reveals what Google is thinking with its Blogger.com acquisition.

Only problem is that popularity of RSS feed usage is on the upswing and will eventually lead to majority of blog news being consumed via news aggregators.  This means Google will have to get into the news aggregator business (?) eventually.  Sure, they can do this with from the server side, but to cover all the bases, Google will need a client-side aggregator as well.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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Blogtracker. Interface zu weblogs.com. Alternative From des Blogrolling. [thomas n. burg | randgänge] 
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Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial. via HITORMISS.ORG: What is TrackBack? Basically, it's a way of recording who has linked to your posts and notifying others that you've linked to them (invented by the folks from Moveable Type). [Channel 'trackback'] 
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stop pinging me you bugger!. via Virulent Meme: How Trackback Really Works: I’ve been about as befuddled as anyone else about this crazy trackback thingy, and these explanations (one, two, three) haven’t really helped. Still, in my attempts to figure out exactly what the hell is going on, I finally thought of an analogy that sort of nearly gets there. [Channel 'trackback'] 
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Cool new Feautre on BlogDigger - LinkSearch www.blogdigger.com. via BlogDigger Development Blog: What can we do with this? I am providing a link for each search result returned to a linkSearch URL that will get all the posts that link to the current post. So basically, you are getting all the posts that refer to the post you are interested in. It is sort of like TrackBack, except it is over all of the blogs that BlogDigger indexes. Kind of like TrackBack on speed. [Channel 'trackback'] 
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radiolovers. radiolovers ~ listen to OLD TIME RADIO shows for free, online. [MetaFilter] 
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Jim McGee: "Sites that provide no RSS feed essentially don't exist for me." [Scripting News] 
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Newborn baby taken to rock concert. Police are called in after a couple took their nine-day-old baby to an AC/DC concert in Germany. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition] 
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DaveNet: BBC Archive, Weblogs and RSS. [Scripting News] 
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Blog Spambot?.

Recently, I have been getting spams with subject lines containing words I have used in my blog posts.  These spams arrive within hours of a blog posting.  If this is being done by a spambot, it seems to be using words I used to retrieve or build a short sentence.  For example, within an hour of posting "Just for Fun", I received a spam with "What are you doing for fun?" as subject.  Are other bloggers seeing this sort of spams also?

[Don Park's Blog] 
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