Random Articles

• What’s Better? In 10 minutes, everything will have an RSS reader built into it; email clients, browsers, audio/video/image players, phones, every single website. Each application parsing and presenting feeds in a way that’s contextually appropriate. I hope. If you want a ‘good enough’ general purpose feed reader, use Google Reader or Bloglines, or Newsgator, or or or or or
• Aggregate Trust, Filter Relevance “I want to subscribe to other people who I can trust, and also, who I can dial down a little” - Eric Rice I like and trust Eric Rice…though I’m not as psyched about Second Life as he is. Same with Mark Cuban and basketball. Same with Doc Searls and photography. Same with Dave Slusher and
• T-71 and Counting Lots of progress the last two days. The absolute core functionality is in - enough to move forward to the interesting bits. Yes, it’s a feed aggregator, River of News-style.
• T-75 and Counting PodcastNYC lists out 9 Ways to Kill Podcasting. Articulating some of the ‘this feels wrong’ parts of the iTunes, Yahoo podcast directories. On the other side, thanks to Dave Winer for comparing the river-of-news vs. portal presentations. Personally, I see time-based navigation as a good way to see how a story evolves - though, I
• I Still Don’t Care What Everyone Thinks  AideRSS (a feed-filtering service) is starting to pick up traction in my blogosphere. “[AideRSS] analyzes the activity around each item in an RSS feed - Technorati hits, comments, Del.icio.us links, traffic reports, etc. - and calculates a score for the item. It then creates four feeds from the original feed, each set to a higher activity