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  • Credibility Issues – BoingBoing

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    [UPDATE: If you’re coming from a Wikinews discussion page, please note that there’s no video here, just a link posted in the comments to this post by “Jeremy Southeby”.] Hey Mark Frauenfelder, I’m having a bit of a problem with this BoingBoing post. It’s a story pulled from a super-tight-tinfoil-hat September 11th conspiracy sort of…

  • Watching Scott McClellan Squirm

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    If you enjoy watching White House Press Secretaries squirm, today’s gaggle is for you. Video at Crooks and Liars, transcript at… the White House. I once read a Howard Kurtz book called Spin Cycle about the Clinton era Press Secretaries and how they dealt with scandals. As long as the president wasn’t lying to them,…

  • Factiva Supports Firefox

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    Factiva now works in Firefox, thus making IE useless to me…at least until IE7 ships. via Steve Rubel’s Delicious linkblog which apparently only shows up in my aggregator and not on his blog. Neat. Previously…

  • Why Aggregators Matter

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    Just in case anyone is wondering why I care, other than just having the urge to voice my point of view as a user: I’m constantly having the discussion with people about why RSS and Blogs and Feeds are so important, why these things are tools to totally subvery the normal hierarchy of mass media,…

  • Grade Revisions: Cutting Down My A-List

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    Things have been a bit busy around here for a few weeks, with two short Summer classes happily eating up most of my day, and never enough reading time at night. So I’ve been cutting down on my “Everyday Reading” of blogs, and tonight it’s time to trim the “A-List” category in my aggregator. Yeah,…

  • SJSU Spartan Daily: Now With RSS!

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    By the way, SJSU’s Spartan Daily now has an RSS Feed. It’s Summer, so there’s nothing there just yet. The Daily resumes publication on August 24th, so for now, paste that feed into your aggregator, hit your subscribe button, and relax. Ubiquitous little orange button forthcoming – my inner codemonkey (10 PRINT “my name is…

  • I’ll Be Checking For Cluetrain Tickets Later

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    A quick note to anyone following the Edupodder Censored thread: I’m a Journalism student, and I fully intend to talk to his boss and find out what the rationale is for not allowing Steve to talk to students on his podcast. I will tell both sides of this story. If you’re the boss in question,…

  • Information Overload Regeneration

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    If anyone knows a good zombie, send them my way: My Brain Is Full. Things I’ve Sort Of Been Paying Attention To: Adam Curry recorded the 200th episode of his Daily Source Code podcast (mp3) live on stage at Gnomedex, blasting a Paradise City/Sgt. Pepper mash-up which has inspired me to dump all my hard…

  • MIT Blogger Survey

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    MIT has a quick survey up. Check it out if you are a blogger. Hard to tell what they’re up to, but it looks like good stuff. Wait a minute: if I quote from whatever research is published from this survey, do I have to disclose that I was a participant? [UPDATE: BoingBoing explains all.]

  • RSS hearts MS: What will happen when Microsoft takes subscription Mainstream?

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    Longhorn hearts RSS. Geeks in a frenzy, hashing out the technicalities and business models and possibilities, but what does it mean for the incredibly large number of people that don’t know now and won’t care later whether it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Renew Subscription, Sonny” ? (HINT: Wouldn’t “Really Simple Subscription” be more…