Cary McMullen

"And on the 2,893,402,568th day, man created blogs."

(Lakeland Ledger) [via Scripting News] 
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Weblogs in the news..
Columbia Journalism Review : Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld by Matt Welch "This February, I attended my first Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference, in the great media incubator of San Francisco. It's impossible to walk a single block of that storied town...
(via judith meskill's knowledge notes) [Channel 'social_software'] 
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Virus alert feeds
Network administrators, webmasters and PC technicians take note. Sophos.com offers RSS feeds for the top ten viruses, virus notifications and virus hoaxes. Get the latest information live ...
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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The Blogger's Platform (Phil Wolff) [Scripting News] 
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Feed Combiner
Phil Pearson is experimenting with a feed combiner, a sort-of blogroll-style miniaggregator you can insert into your own static pages. See Experiment: constructing blogrolls with RSS for more information on how it works and how to use it....
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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Marc Canter

"When a blog falls in the virtual forest and nobody reads it, it makes no sound. No sound at all."

[Marc's Voice] 
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qlogger ... offers a number of structured blogging options...
[Seb's Open Research] 
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Raggle: a console based aggregator
As a fan of console-based tools (mytop, for example) in this "web-based everything" age, I was thrilled to see an announcement for Raggle. Raggle is a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, support for various versions of RSS, Screen support. browser auto-detection, and more. Raggle has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well...
[Jeremy Zawodny's blog] 
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24-Hour Trends in the Non-English Blogosphere
"We've divided the "whole blogosphere" into slices based on the language of each individual weblog ..."
[Blogalization Community] 
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Web Event: Trotts to speak on CNN
Six Apart founders Ben and Mena Trott will be discussing TypePad on CNN Headline News on Wednesday, September 3. We do not know the time yet, or whether this will be on CNN International as well, but would definately mark...
[The Blog Herald] 
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Can RSS Trump Spam?
"With scam artists, spammers and virus writers all using the e-mail inbox as the main target, it has become a daily nightmare for legitimate online publishers and marketers to cope with mail filters, blacklists and irate subscribers. Enter RSS... the XML syndication format that allows publishers to shuttle content to news aggregators, avoiding the e-mail chaos altogether."...
(via Internet News) [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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The rise of blogging
Internet giants catch on to blogs / Major portals provide services for online journals

"It definitely seems like blogging is losing its underground image," said Matthew Haughey, co-author of the book "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs" and co-founder of Blogroots, a Web site that chronicles blogging news. ...
(SFGate.com) [via The Blog Herald] 
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Everyone Wants a Bite of Apple
Why is Apple so tempting? Creative culture, killer products, zealous fans and Steve Jobs. Memo to Sony: Bite! An essay by Josh McHugh from Wired magazine.
[Wired News] 
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Fight or Switch?
PostNuke or pMachine? Portal, vortal, or classic blog? The Blogalization test-kitchens are busy cooking up alternatives.
[Blogalization Community] 
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BottomFeeder
(Freeware) "..is a news aggregator client (RSS and Atom) written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. BottomFeeder runs on Intel Linux, Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Mac OS X, AIX, SGI Irix, Compaq UNIX, HP-UX, and Solaris."
[Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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First Draft
Today I found another source of experienced opinion on the changing face of print communications -- Tim Porter, a fellow traveler into the future of print.
From his web page bio:

"I am an editor and writer who entered newspapering as a reporter with a typewriter and left it as an editor building websites. Today, I work independently but retain a passion for newspapers and the pursuit of quality journalism."

The website he built belonged to the San Francisco Examiner, and he was formerly the city editor there as well.

Porter's weblog, First Draft, chronicles the triumphs and travails of the newspaper industry. Newspapers -- like their ailing sisters in the printing industry -- are another industrial-age giant trying desperately to cope with a geriatric future. Their road into the future of print won't be easy, but for a lot of reasons they'll figure out how to survive. It just may not look anything like it does today. And the lessons they learn may be important to all of us.
[b.cognosco] 
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Virginia Tech building supercomputer with 1100 G5 Power Macs
(via heise online news) [Think secret] 
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