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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News.Com: "Microsoft's path to expand the Windows empire is leading directly to search king Google." [Scripting News] 
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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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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.

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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.

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Rethinking the Application of Trackback. via Big Damn Heroes (Tech): I love Trackback... the Trotts hit a home run when they came up with it. But as we've discussed in the past, the current implementations leave much to be desired. There's little understanding of what TB is, debates over acceptable use, and concerns abo... [Channel 'trackback'] 
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radiolovers. radiolovers ~ listen to OLD TIME RADIO shows for free, online. [MetaFilter] 
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It's all for charidee.... Mitch Kapor reckons that by 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test. If he's right, the EFF wins $20,000 on a bet.

In the well designed and conceptualised Dave Winer, Esther Dyson, Vint Cerf and Ted Danson!
All predictions here; All bets here

- discussions so far here.

Any Mefites willing to stake their rep on cherished beliefs? What do you want to publicly predict will - or will not - happen, and by when? [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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DaveNet: BBC Archive, Weblogs and RSS. [Scripting News] 
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