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6/1/2006
On the other hand, someone on the excellent DIG-REF list just posted a link to an interview with Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales from Friday's (5/26) FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Chris DiBona. I may well be listening to that as soon as I send this column off. For some reason, I have not yet been captivated by RSS feeds and I wonder if they're as much of a soon-to-be-a-from-the-past way of receiving news the way that publishing documents on CDs turned out to be. I'm very interested in reader-contributed, slightly organized news Web sites like Fark.com, which is the most recent addition to my daily scan (thanks to my colleague, John Ferry). I just wish that particular one wasn't so very few clicks away from stuff that I'd just as soon not accidentally look at. Today, on UWEBD, the College and University Web Developer's list, a thread was started up about the potential for Wiki-based news pages. So far, I am the only respondent, but my response – formed as I wrote it – coalesced some things I have been sort of noticing about Wikipedia. One is that I use it more and more. Another is that, as I wrote, "Some of the articles in Wikipedia are so frequently updated they are analogous to constantly-updated news stories." Hmm. So, then I asked the list to share the various cool and unusual ways they are seeing the news done. Only a couple of responses to that so far, but they're interesting. My favorite news-related page of the day – and one I think I am now reintroduced to – is FRESH Headlines at Frustrated.Cities.com. That site compares the current offerings from a political spectrum of online news sources. The left-hand column is the Village Voice. The next is the New York Times. The next might be the BBC or the Irish Times, then on the right is Fox News. I think that the utterly poisonous World Net Daily should be a fifth column, to the right of Fox News, but then I don't know how to code that kind of page. Personally, I show no signs of the Balkanization of news reading that some pundits have worried about. I look at many conservative, some radically-conservative: Ann Coulter , Limbaugh, and Hal Lindsey. Heck, I even visit Jerry Falwell sometimes and was delighted recently to learn about the site on which he sells special protein shakes so that Pat Robertson can leg press 2,000 pounds. And I am a "Capital El" Liberal. To balance that, check out Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. I just want to know what everyone thinks. What would really be cool is to be able to tap into the National Security Agency’s varied eavesdroppings, but those probably won't be available to the average person without good cracking skills until about 2010. Unless a senior administration official needs to leak something.Cite this Site
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