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Dan Gillmor's new bl0g

Dan Gillmor's new bl0g 01/01/2005 08:53 PM

Dan Gillmor who recently left the Merc has a new blog called Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism. Go Dan!

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Dan Gillmor's new book, We

Dan Gillmor's new book, We 08/02/2004 03:02 AM
Dan Gillmor's new book, We the Media, has hit the shelves. I was asked to read this earlier for a blurb, and was completely taken with it -- it's the sort of book that I will be encouraging others to read for years to come, the sort of book that underpins both my work at EFF (because so much of Dan's thesis about democratized reportage hinges on the importance of a free and open network) and my work as an sf writer (because Dan's vision of the future is so compelling. Here's the blurb I wrote for Dan:

"Clear-eyed, hype-free and for all that prescient and inspiring. We the Media is Gillmor's heroic effort to bridge the tech-obsessed polyannas like me and the skeptical grownups whose hardened attitutudes won't admit of this stuff. He's done us all a service by writing it for us."

Dan's publisher, O'Reilly and Associates, have put up a website for his book here: Link

Dan Gillmor's last Merc column

Dan Gillmor's last Merc column 01/02/2005 01:44 PM
Cory Doctorow: Dan Gillmor's final column in the San Jose Mercury News runs today, marking the end of a ten-year career in reporting on tech journalism -- Dan's leaving to start a company that will enable "grassroots journalism," capitalizing on a trend that he's very parrionate about. The final column is a lovely bittersweet end to an amazing run.

And, as always, the people and institutions currently holding the clout don't cede it willingly. Governments are clamping down on us in all kinds of ways. Incumbent business powerhouses are trying to hold back the tide as well, not just to keep their positions but also to thwart new innovation that might threaten them.

These reactionary encroachments and retrenchments are not surprising. They always occur in times of swift change and challenge. In the end, they are almost always unsuccessful, because progress ultimately finds a way around barriers, and because people challenge the reactionaries.

But we need to keep the pressure up, as citizens and people who want the freedom to use these new tools and live in liberty. The stakes are high, and liberty takes work.

Link (via Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism)

Dan Gillmor's take on consumers products
and Fair Use

Dan Gillmor's take on consumers products
and Fair Use 01/18/2004 04:55 PM
Very interesting that several media organizations have picked up on the subject of consumer fair use. Dave Gillmor's Sunday editorial...

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
- America's Best Spirit

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
- America's Best Spirit 06/01/2004 09:13 AM
feature column by Dan Gillmor in the San Jose Merc .. wrote this excellent piece .. how we stood .. says

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Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
- White House Website and History

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
- White House Website and History 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
disable search engines from crawling certain material .. the whitehouse.gov robots.txt file .. White House Website and History .. someone at the White House .. Dan Gillmor .. Iraqfilter

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» Waiting for Attention… or
something like it | Steve Gillmor's
Inforouter | ZDNet.com

» Waiting for Attention… or
something like it | Steve Gillmor's
Inforouter | ZDNet.com 03/31/2005 12:14 AM
Waiting for Attention€¦ or something like it Steve Gillmor's Inforouter

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Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
- Wikipedia Shows Power of Cooperation

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
- Wikipedia Shows Power of Cooperation 01/26/2004 02:19 AM
Wikipedia Shows Power of Cooperation .. amateurish nonsense. Right? Well, no .. Dan Gillmor on Wikipedia

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I don't use RSS readers... until now

I don't use RSS readers... until now 06/28/2004 04:46 PM

After hearing news of Apple adding feed reading to Safari, I was a bit skeptical. As much as I like reading weblogs, I hate using RSS readers. Readers have a lot of basic problems: putting a count on every feed and item like weblogs are suddenly my work inbox that I have to keep down to zero, the counts are recorded by the program, so jumping from one computer to another means you lose count of your feeds, and viewing comments or the rest of a message requires jumping to a browser anyway. Personally I use an update montior, and track the newly updated sites with a sidebar.

But after seeing this quicktime demo of the Safari reader, it just might be the first one I ever use. Gone are the counts on everything telling me how many more posts I must read. In its place is something more akin to Kinja or LiveJournal: you get a universal home page of all the recent items you are interested in. The "personal newspaper" metaphor is one that has been thrown around for years, but few of the RSS readers offer it.

While this new feature isn't perfect (it still ties me to Safari running on a single computer), the display of all feeds on a single page and lack of incessant counting will probably be enough to make me switch over.

Note to Readers

Note to Readers 01/27/2004 11:30 AM
Our traffic has been increasing, and we're seeing extremely high peak loads between 10:30 and noon EST.

Readers and friends

Readers and friends 08/02/2004 11:50 AM
When you write for a magazine, explicitly or not you adjust your style to match your readers' expectations. And, if you don't, your editor will do it for you. No matter how diverse the demographics of the readers, their expectations are usually quite precise, including how much profanity to use, how much description, the number of people interviewed per article, how conspicuous the author herself is in the story, the type of vocabulary, and the nature of the narrative. In short, there is such a thing as a New Yorker article, and you can recognize one even if it's not...

Advertisers and Readers

Advertisers and Readers 04/17/2004 11:24 AM

Angie McKaig again inspires me with "please stop making my eyes hurt".

Angie underscores the importance of readers to publishers that support their work with advertising, and she also makes clear the importance of good advertising to readers. Advertising and editorial have to work together on the web more than in any other medium, in my opinion, because there are so many alternatives out there for web users.

Great report Angie.

Thank you, WWdN readers!!

Thank you, WWdN readers!! 12/02/2003 01:07 AM
Turns out that WWdN readers have sent Dancing Barefoot to the top of the Literature and S ci-Fi charts!!! Because of you guys, Powell's is completely sold out!!

Word for readers

Word for readers 03/14/2005 05:40 PM
[See note at the end of this post] Microsoft Word lets you view your document in several modes: Normal (=draft), Web page, printed page, outline, and print preview. Yet there's no view designed strictly for readers. That's too bad since many of us end up reading Word pages we have no editing rights to. If Word added a Read view, it could have special functionality: At the bottom of each screen would be Next and Previous buttons Adjust font family and size with a click of a button...and save your adjustments as a theme We could highlight text and have...

CMP decides it doesn't want readers

CMP decides it doesn't want readers 06/24/2004 02:49 PM
i'd love to hear the conversation at the meeting where this was decided

Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?

Will RSS Readers Clog the Web? 04/30/2004 04:52 AM
Sure, news aggregators are handy tools, making Web surfing a breeze. But the programs are greedy little buggers that swamp websites with unwanted traffic. Something has to change, and soon. By Ryan Singel.

Apology to my readers

Apology to my readers 07/02/2004 03:08 AM

Over the past 2 1/2 weeks while I have been recovering from my injuries/surgery I have been on heavy pain medications and today while reading back thru some of my articles I got to thinking that you all must think I have been drinking while witting.

I think the pain meds would qualify me for being slightly impaired and if you have been scratching your head that may explain some of it. My doctor and I have re-worked my pain meds and hopefully the new prescription I pick up tomorrow will allow me to navigate better and make more comprehensive sense.

Todd aka GeekNews

Newsweek readers react

Newsweek readers react 12/04/2003 08:25 PM
Maine: "For Bill Gates to insinuate that if he had applied Microsoft’s 'advanced ideas to do a Web-scale search engine,' Microsoft -- and not Google -- would ...

OCW Readers Awards 2004

OCW Readers Awards 2004 01/03/2005 05:20 PM

Computers are mind readers

Computers are mind readers 04/04/2005 06:46 AM
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Gnomedex special for my readers

Gnomedex special for my readers 08/11/2004 09:22 PM

Chris Pirillo is offering readers of this blog a $50 discount off tickets to the Gnomedex conference in Lake Tahoe. Pay only $149 to attend this three-day conference. To get this offer, visit the signup page and sign up as a “Past Gnomedexer” (even if you aren’t). Then email chris AT pirillo.com and tell him you read about the offer on my blog and let him know what email address you used to sign up.

RSS readers and bandwidth consumption

RSS readers and bandwidth consumption 05/04/2004 12:32 PM

Wired recently asked wh ether RSS readers will clog the Web, raising concerns about bandwidth problems associated with RSS. While these concerns are valid, they're really less about RSS and more about the poor design of some RSS readers. So, I'd like to point out how FeedDemon was designed to minimize bandwidth consumption.

The primary concern is how often RSS readers download feeds to check for new items. After all, if a feed is updated once a day, there's a huge waste of bandwidth if RSS readers are downloading the feed every few minutes. However, a well-designed RSS reader won't download the entire feed if it hasn't been modified - instead, it will do as FeedDemon does and utilize HTTP If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match (ETag) requests. If the feed hasn't changed, then the server simply returns a 304: Not Modified response, which requires very little bandwidth. FeedDemon also supports GZIP compression and it remembers redirects, which further reduces bandwidth consumption.

FeedDemon honors the RSS <ttl> element, which enables feed authors to state how often the feed should be updated. FeedDemon won't allow setting a feed's update frequency lower than the <ttl>, so be sure to use this element in your feed if you're concerned about unnecessary bandwidth consumption. In addition, FeedDemon honors the <sk ipdays> and <skiphours> elements.

And I should add that FeedDemon defaults to checking for updates every three hours, not every few minutes. Users can set the update frequency lower than this (provided it's not lower than the feed's <ttl>), but in my experience, few users actually do this.

So, while RSS bandwidth consumption is a valid concern, it's a concern that I addressed from the very start when designing FeedDemon.

Total Guitar's readers

Total Guitar's readers 05/03/2004 07:57 AM
Top 20 Guitar Riffs .. Here€™s a list .. news.bbc.co.uk

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MacResQ Readers Specials

MacResQ Readers Specials 12/03/2003 10:58 PM
Lexmark X75 PrinTrio All-In-One USB Printer, Copier and Scanner $79.99, take $5 off with Q-Pon Code "TRIO"

PowerMac G4/500 256/27gb/DVD-RAM/Zip Graphite $789.99, take $35 off with Q-Pon Code "G4500"

Shure E5C Dual Driver In-Ear Earphones Own a pair of the nicest headphones, ever! $479.99, get $80 off with Q-Pon Code "E5CHP"

Sennheiser RS-85 RF Wireless Headphones Extended special from last week!! $179.99, take $20 off with Q-Pon Code "RS85RF" and save another $25 via mail-in rebate, for a final price of just $134.99!

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Griffin ClearChoice iPod Connection Kit Plug your iPod into your stereo, crank it up -- instant party! $14.99, get $3 off with Q-Pon Code "IPCK"

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"Some Readers Want to Lock Up Al
Neuharth"

"Some Readers Want to Lock Up Al
Neuharth" 12/30/2004 11:31 PM

Some Readers Want to Lock Up Al Neuharth

Some Readers Want to Lock Up Al Neuharth 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
Pro-War Idiots Want to Lock Up Publisher Al Neuharth; Apparently, it is now an act of treason to offer an editorial opinion on the Iraq war that goes against the conventional wisdom. 12/30 .. left was shrill

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"one of Glenn Reynolds' readers"

"one of Glenn Reynolds' readers" 04/27/2004 03:32 AM

Readers want Linux knowledge

Readers want Linux knowledge 02/17/2004 06:33 AM
A while ago I asked for your thoughts on what appeared to be the takeover of this newsletter by Linux issues as Novell continues to make big noises about the open source operating system as well as the utilities and application vendors it has acquired in the Linux space. I was worried that you might think we were losing our focus. Evidently, we weren't.

Big Discounts For Rebelscum Readers

Big Discounts For Rebelscum Readers 09/15/2004 07:11 PM
By special arrangement with Master Replicas, we have arranged for a limited number of in-stock items to receive very special discounts, making each of them the most affordable offered to date. See the sale page here.

Vive la France! cry Reg readers

Vive la France! cry Reg readers 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
Stern response Otto gets a slapping

What's wrong with feed readers

What's wrong with feed readers 08/27/2004 01:51 PM

The recent Glassdog post about what's wrong with feed readers has generated some buzz, and in general I agree with this post. Feed readers need to do more - much more - to help locate and navigate related information, and this is something I've thought about for quite some time.

Before coding FeedDemon 1.0, I sat down and really studied the other RSS readers, looking for what was missing. It was (almost) immediately obvious that other feed readers did nothing to find information for you, instead acting as though you'd want to read everything. It seemed to me that as feed readers caught on, it wouldn't be long until people were faced with feed overload - too much data, most of which they don't care about. This was why my design specs for the very first release of FeedDemon focused on the importance of features such as "watches" and "search channels" which help you find information you're actually interested in. I also made sure to add basic filtering, grouping, etc., so you wouldn't be stuck with "sorting items by date," as this post suggests.

I considered doing more along these lines in 1.0, but I decided that since most people consider RSS to be brand new, they would need to be introduced to reading feeds using a familiar, email-like UI that wasn't overloaded with RSS-specific features. I know that sounds odd, but the more unfamiliar features a product has, the higher the learning curve - and the slower the adoption. So, my goal with FeedDemon 1.0 was to make it easy for those new to RSS to start reading, without the added complexity suggested by this post. Now that more people are using FeedDemon and other feed readers, of course, I can take things much further in future versions :)

One big problem I see with this post (and others like it) is that they talk about rating/ranking individual items, but I believe that the vast majority of users don't want to spend time doing this. Relationships between items can be made without requiring the user to do anything, so this will likely be my focus. That doesn't mean, though, that I'm ruling out ranking items in FeedDemon, just that I'm not planning to make ranking items central to using FeedDemon.

My Blog Readers Rock!

My Blog Readers Rock! 01/08/2004 08:23 PM
I have to say, I'm very impressed with the response to my recent home buying post. In a matter of hours, I heard from lots of folks via e-mail, posted comments, and TrackBacks. Lots of helpful info coming in. I've been pointed at properties I might like, heard from folks who have recently bought in the area, and so on. One person invited me over for a drink to check out his complex (there's at least one unit for sale...

ONLINE EXTRA: Our readers on jihad

ONLINE EXTRA: Our readers on jihad 09/25/2004 07:19 AM
Canada.com - Sat Sep 25, 08:32 am GMT

SA online media attract 3.5m readers

SA online media attract 3.5m readers 09/08/2004 03:27 AM
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Note to Readers: Server Interruptions

Note to Readers: Server Interruptions 09/08/2004 11:02 AM
We're wrestling with some difficult, load-related server problems and may interrupt service for short periods of time as we try various workarounds.

ONLINE EXTRA: Our readers on gun control

ONLINE EXTRA: Our readers on gun control 09/24/2004 07:43 AM
Canada.com - Fri Sep 24, 08:20 am GMT

Note to Readers: Server Tests

Note to Readers: Server Tests 09/17/2004 10:16 AM
We're testing a new server, so please let us know if you see any anomalies.

Online newspapers tempt readers

Online newspapers tempt readers 06/01/2004 10:35 AM
A boom in the consumption of news online is a sign of hope in challenging year for the world's newspapers.

Does the Tablet PC Have a Future?
Readers Weigh In

Does the Tablet PC Have a Future?
Readers Weigh In 06/03/2004 08:51 AM
Some say yea; some say nay. But everyone's a critic, when it comes to the Tablet.
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