John Battelle on the NYT's move to charge for access to some sections.
A friend told me about a weekly call hosted by Jerry Michalski and his consulting collective called Yi-Tan.com. The last one on Monday was a phone conversation with Chris Anderson on his article about The Long Tail.
Sat in on a very small meeting with the CEO of SyndicateIQ. Really interesting stuff in the works. Variable delivery of content using the same feed, one partner / or subscriber gets headlines, another a few sentences, another full text, etc. It made me wonder about the future of e-mail newsletters. Eventually they will converge. Will people want e-mail newsletters or would they prefer the anonymity or rather choice of a feed? Right now people are talking about it as a choice. I suppose it could be though one is pushed another pulled. Both are at the users discretion though one is harder to turn off and the other is basically anonymous.
Tomorrow is possibly the day that Sen. Frist tries to undo over 200 years of history and undermines the basic workings of our "democracy". From Daily Kos;
This has long ago ceased to be about the merits of a handful of (ironically activist) judges. As has been amply demonstrated elsewhere, Republicans were brutal in holding up Clinton nominations in recent years based on the whims of even a single Republican Senator. Their current bluster and outrage is simply manufactured.
The rules of the Senate will be purposefully and deliberately broken, because ninety-five percent compliance with the President, and with the allied James Dobsons of the world, is not good enough. Frist requires Democrats to countenance any action the President wishes; in a choice between the institutions of this country and the wishes of his President, Frist has already made his choice. We shall see who follows.
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What kind of American English do you speak. A fun test that is apropos. I'm 45% Yankee, 40% general American English, 10% Dixie, 5% Upper Midwestern, 0% Midwestern.
