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The Balkanization of Online Media

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

The Balkanization of online media refers to having to register individually to read many different news sources.

Previously on this blog I wrote about the onerous task of online registering. Adam Penenberg writes in What,Me Register?, an article for Wired News, that reveals the primary use of registration is not to help online news media measure site traffic, but for targeting ads.

Penenberg lists some humorous examples of fake identities and he asks why don’t Web publishers get together to set up a one-stop registration process for everybody. He says you would sign up once and be done with it.

That scenerio doesn’t work for me. But, then I’m a card carrying skeptic.

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18 RSS readers, RSS aggregators, Feed readers

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

PC World article charts 18 RSS Readers. I’m using SharpReader on the laptop and a firefox extension, RSS Reader Panel on the main box.

RSS readers are one of the biggest new categories of software in recent memory.

No kidding.

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RSS Readers

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

A directory of feed readers, which are used to scan or read many sites at once. RSS Readers

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What is RSS?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

RSS is…
1. A format.
2. Content management tools that generate feeds in the format.
3. Aggregators and readers that subscribe to the feeds.
4. Search engines and utilities that crunch the information and ideas.
5. Services from technology companies like Microsoft and Apple.
6. Authoritative publications like the BBC, The New York Times, CNET, InfoWorld, PC World, Time, Wired, Salon, Yahoo, Reuters — that distribute news and opinion in RSS.
7. Many thousands of weblogs covering virtually every aspect of life on this planet.
8. A vast and growing community of thinkers, writers, educators, public servants, and technologists.

Everything a non-tech user needs to know about RSS from Dave Winer

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Daypop

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Daypop is a current events/weblog/RSS feeds news search engine searching news sites, weblogs and rss feeds for current events and breaking news. Daypop’s Word Bursts are heightened usage of certain words in weblogs within the last couple days. They are indicators of what webloggers are writing about right now. Daypop lets you keyword search through content it finds from crawling thousands of news sites throughout each day. Behind the Scenes at the Daypop Search Engine. Submit your weblog to daypop.

Recommended.

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