- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is running A Survey of Blogs and Bloggers. [fark!]
- Steveo’s got More RSS Ranting. Here’s my take: I read the web using a browser in the morning. It’s my morning news, and I hit a few papers, a few comics, and a slew of blogs every morning. The results end up in Dave’s Picks at some point. Then in the evening, when I’m watching the TV, I fire up the laptop and use some RSS tool to browse through a different set of news. News that’s more geek-oriented. Sometimes links come of that, but more often it’s a matter of spotting something that looks newsworthy, and then I’ll see some neat commentary the next morning that I end up linking to. The RSS is more of a headline-skimmer for me, I guess.
- Why Blogs Haven't Stormed the Business World discusses the problem organizing the large amounts of text that most bloggers accumulate. I’ve been thinking about that problem for the entries here, too. But the author of the article seems to have completely missed systems that do offer better organization, like More Like This, b2++ or b2 ftrain (which source isn’t available, but the site works well most of the time), slash or scoop or any of the other technologies people have rolled together to solve the very problem the author’s going on about.
- Now everyone’s Licensed to War Drive in N.H., since a new law was passed explicitly making it legal to access a wireless network which has not been secured. Basically it means that if you connect to a wireless network without a password, the owner of that network can’t sue you. In other states, you’re a criminal if you access an open network. The NH law, if signed, will take effect in January 2004.