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That's adorable! I hope it works! Now if it was baked into MySpace or something it might, but as a standalone site I can't imagine it having enough draw.

Great post, I love it. I mean I hate it, but that's how it is and you put it well here. Thanks for writing this.

Hey I forgot - you already did! http://netsquared.org/blog/marnie-webb/an-inter...

That seems pretty cool to me.

I got to interview Gina for the nonprofit tech assistance project NetSquared a few weeks ago: http://netsquared.org/gina It was pretty cool alright.

Perhaps if you're not cool enough to write for Lifehacker, Robert, you'd feel better if you did an interview with Net Squared too.

Some things to consider:
Women now make up 52% of the users on the internet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=10913
Chat users with traditionally female names get 25X more hostile comments
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm...

To say that women represent fashion, asthetics, soft things etc is to essentialize them, to claim that there is an essential nature to women.

I work for a nonprofit tech project called Net Squared: Remixing the Web for Social Change and we've got a list of nonprofit blogging case studies at http://netsquared.org/casestudy/blogging

Thought that might be of interest! Good luck on your presentation.

Sheesh, I don't mean to be uptight about being PC - but I think we all know what a lametard is. It's a retard that can't walk. Charming. Why muck up such good thinking with concepts like that as your insult? I'm sure this was an attempt to use the same juvenile language that MySpace users use - but there's a reason we all grew out of it.

I find that RSS helps when I:

1. organize my feeds into folders by priority
2. read the smaller number of items that come into high-priority folders first
3. read the "river of news" that Newsgator offers next, or however much I am able to at the time.
4. don't lose sleep over thousands of unread items (they aren't like emails)
5. and finally, use a system like http://immedi.at to notifiy me by IM when a really, really important feed has been updated.

Yup, that's how I do it.

Though it might seem counterintuitive, I find RSS to be very helpful in dealing with info overload.

See also Shelley Powers on biographical entries about women in Wikipedia:
http://weblog.burningbird.net/2005/12/20/ladies...

Wow. Thanks for the link, that's awesome!

Unfortunately this won't do anything about the act of getting a google news alert emailed to a blogger.com post-by-email address. Has anything been done about that yet?

Pete, I wrote about a memetracker ala memeorandum concerning the Life Sciences blogosphere.

Thought that might be of interest.

I wrote a post a bit ago on "13 reasons to use tags," people liked it pretty well.
http://marshallk.com/13-reasons-to-use-tags

Hard to believe as this is, 27% of people in China supposedly know the term Web2.0 according to a Chinese study I posted about yesterday.... http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/02/23...

To the best of my knowledge, AOL was also one of the only major web companies that refused to go along with Chinese censorship demands. See:
http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org/...

As I understand it, the walled garden days of AOL are over. I hope so, as they are one of my employers. My understanding is that they have a new strategy, based on in part on content, blogs, mass mailings of disposable crap etc. Much like the new company discussed in this post (minus the mailings I hope).

Well, coComment does seem a little walled to me so long as it only tracks the comments of other cC users on blogs I comment on - not that I know how they'd do otherwise.

I'll be interested to see what Edgeio does about things like the Craig's List housing discrimination suit. I guess you could put a spam and demographic/identity term" filter on the incoming feeds?

Have a good time! Wish I was going, but maybe next year. I'll be excited to see your video coverage.

Readers here should make sure to check out Peter Brown's immedi.at service too, it's how I found this post! Feedfire.com is an old school way to scrape feeds from some pages. It can be useful. I checked out feed43 (I told Peter about it) but have been having a hard time figuring out how to make it work. I'll be interested in checking out FeedTier now.

I think a fair number of the folks found at technorati.com/blogs/feminism would take issue with some of this, and I'm not sure why you'd stir the pot and ruffle feathers needlessly.

I think it looks very nice. You are aware, though, that readers who click on any link to a feedburner feed will be taken to a screen with all the various one-click subscribe options? I know it's a toss up for me too to decide wether to rely on that or to put all the buttons on there. I really do think it looks nice though.

Pete, your blog looks mad dope in Safari, if you will. I too have IE problems but, I'm afraid to admit, I have not taken the time to try and fix it. Oops! Yay for the web hub, huh? It seems like it's going really well. I know I'm totally stoked on it. Thanks again for helping me get the invite! See ya at the hub.

While you can certainly add individuals to your feed, the feed for everyone's summaries aggregated is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/technologyhub

and the feed for the editorials at the hub is
http://feeds.feedburner.com/webhubedit

That way you can get all this fantasticness at once!

Hmm...I looked around in your account with great interest. Have been wanting to learn more about this one for awhile. that said, I noticed that my content, though included in the left hand list, is not getting indexed (I searched for "RSS" in my site alone and got nothing but my front page) I ping MyYahoo with each blog post (via Feedburner) and a search in Yahoo for my domain gets lots of results, so I'm curious about this. Any thoughts?

Glad to see your coverage of this. I saw several repeated results and their time to index submitted sites is undemonstrated as far as I have seen. Also, I am real curious to see how their RSS feeds work (once they've gone public?) b/c that's my #1 use of a blog-search engine. But it does look good, for sure.

I think you're being unfair here. AOL is really moving towards open content to drive ad revenue. EG their acquisition of Weblogs Inc. They are moving out of the walled garden aproach and there's little reason to believe they will move back in that direction in this effort.