links for 2005-10-30

Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts.  They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging.  The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…

Steve Rubel launched an interesting discussion on whether RSS growth has stalled.  As I see it, the problem is that RSS is difficult to explain in laymen’s terms and it is saddled with an ugly acronym.  To this day, people cringe at the term HTML, but they have no problem accessing a web site. For…

Poynter Online reports: DenverPost.com’s podcasts are finding some funding. Executive producer Gil Asakawa reports that the retailer Best Buy is paying for a $30,000 campaign that begins October 3. The podcasts will have a short sponsor mention at the beginning, then a longer (10-second) product-specific mention at the end. [via Online News Squared]

Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…

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