Monthly Archives: June 2002

A number of other interesting, thoughtful responses to Tim Rutten’s Los Angeles Times piece comparing bloggers to nineteenth century pamphleteers, in a less than favorable light. Thanks to Ken Layne I found Rand Simberg’s pithy take—he too takes an interest … Continue reading →

Doc Searls points to this journalistic gem from Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times. You need to register to experience the full joy of Rutten’s “To Err Is Human, but to Think Out Loud,” but the meat of his … Continue reading →

There are a number of useful ways to incorporate news aggregators into teaching. There are lots of classes in English, Social Science, Communication Studies and Journalism departments that ask students to read newspapers and journals on and off the web … Continue reading →

NewsIsFree may be freely used for personal and non-profit purposes, as their terms of service statement explains. The site allows you to customize your pages on their server much as you would pages on Yahoo or some other portal. After … Continue reading →

In his piece on news aggregators, Dave Winer defines them as: software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page. … Continue reading →