The Internet Under Surveillance
In his forward to the recent Reporters Without Borders report on the state of internet censorship, Vint Cerf, widely regarded as the "father of the Internet," calls for web users to exercise their critical thinking skills when accessing online information. (SearchEngineWatch) [STOP1984] 
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Iran Joins China in Blocking Blogs. Hoder: July 9 Unrest, Updates. Confirmed reports are saying that akunews (prominent student news website) and major blogging services websites... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Another Funny Google Search Result. Anthony Cox created nifty bit of modern mythology by gaming Google to turn up a hilarious "I'm Feeling Lucky" result... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Rheingold Preaches Mob-Logging. drjparker writes "Howard Rheingold author of Smart Mobs and The Virtual Community among other works has an article in the Online Journalism Review in which he ... [Slashdot] 
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Cringely On Electronic Tapping. sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely, the PBS one, has an editorial discussing electronic wire-tapping and the Big Brother concerns. There isn't any new ... [Slashdot] 
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Psychedelia from yesterday and today. Bob Masse's Rock Posters ~ Thirty-five years of poster art by one of North America's premier poster artists. [MetaFilter] 
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Salon: From June 10, 1999; Can history survive Silicon Valley? [Tomalak's Realm] 
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Ultra-liberal feed parser.

This is an ultra-liberal feed parser, suitable for reading RSS and Pie feeds as produced by weblogs, news sites, wikis, and many other types of sites.

As I guessed and as Mark replied, his ultra-liberal feed parser now supports initial Pie (nee nEcho (nee Echo (nee Pie))) feeds.

But you know what else? He left in support for RSS. My news aggregator remains fully able to read all my feeds even after dropping in his new code. No breakage here. [0xDECAFBAD] 
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On the vine
I'm opening the doors today on a new project -- something I'm doing on the side, not affiliated with Salon -- called Storyvine. It's a themed blog, focusing on digital storytelling -- the description is "the digital storytelling grapevine." Here's the mission statement: "I've got two goals for this blog: First, by providing timely news and links I hope to provide a useful service to the existing community that has formed around the idea of digital storytelling over the last decade or so, since the first Digital Storytelling Festival in Crested Butte, Colorado, in 1995. Second, I hope to help people who are curious about this phenomenon get a clearer handle on what it is, and where to find out more."

I intend to update it as regularly as there's news, information, links or thoughts that are of interest to the people who are interested in this subject. Come visit. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 
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Aggregators a go-go.

Aggregator Traffic Stats. Inspired by hebig's post on the subject, I ran the user agent numbers for my RSS feeds (last 30 ...... [LaughingMeme]

There is some question about what the stats actually mean (unique IP's vs. requests) but it was interesting just to see how many aggregator agents there are now.  NetNewsWire still appears to be the firm favourite.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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