Monday, September 22, 2003

The Story Story Doc Searls has an excellent posting on his blog on "The Story Story," talking about how journalists often simplify an issue into two sides, and lose a lot in the process. Software and media piracy are the big issues.  8:25:14 PM    comment []

Who's reading RSS Feeds? It's interesting to browse through the web logs and see who is read the FoxCentral and FoxForum Wiki RSS feeds. All four (both have 1.0 and 2.0 variants) are available from http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html. Here are some snippets from Saturday's logs so you can see what kind of news aggregators and accumulators are reading the subscription feeds: lwp/trivial FeedDemon/1.0+Beta+5a+(http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon Bloglines/1.0+(http://www.bloglines.com Feedster+Crawler/1.0 NIF/1.1++(http://www.newsisfree.com/robot.php) PostNuke:+Rogue:+0.7.2 Syndic8/1.0+(http://www.syndic8.com/) nntp//rss+v0.3+(Linux+2.4.18-386+i386;+http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/) AmphetaDesk/0.93.1+(MSWin32;+http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/) RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3 Jakarta+Commons-HttpClient/2.0rc1 Radio+UserLand/8.0.8+(WinNT) 5:30:37 PM    comment []