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September 8, 2006

More than one river


Michael Levin's Weblog : Weblog

Dave Winer created Rivers of News by parsing out the NYTimes.com RSS feed. The NYTimes thought it was such a good idea, they rolled their own: http://mobile.nytimes.com/. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I can tell you that if the Times just rolled this out today, they've been working on this for a pretty long time, certainly predating the whole river of news thing. I'm also surprised that the NYT has just let the whole nytriver thing go by, which also leads me to suspect that they haven't heard about it yet.

(Disclaimer: I am a former New York Times employee.)

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Posted by John at 1:22 PM |

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Meanwhile, a toast to the school we're running right here. Best new student/teacher: J.P.Rangaswami. Dig Things I've been able to do Because Of my blog. Best mentor: Dave Winer. I dig how he's still getting lessons, too.

Yet another heavy application of Mr Winer's Original Non-Atomic RSS (Really Smelly Shit) Nose Cream.


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Posted by John at 2:20 PM |

What an asshole.

Joi Ito's Web: It's mylo

I'll post more updates after I play for it some more, but thought I should post this before everyone else got one and diminished the amount of envy I could muster with this post. I was able to get ahold of one though a secret source at Sony who I am not allowed to disclose. And before you ask me if I can get you one, I can't.

Christ amighty, does spending most of your time traveling turn you into an utter baby or what? Aren't you supposed to leave this kind of "nyah nyah" shit behind when you're six? How do people reconcile this sort of insider bullshit with this new meritocratic world we're supposedly all creating (except for Seth Finkelstein, because he's eeeeeevil)?

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Posted by John at 12:27 PM |

Bovo-porco Vegetarians.

In the comments at Step away from the tofu burger at Pandagon:

Jill: You’re not a vegetarian!
Jane: I’m a bi-vegetarian!
Jill: What? That doesn’t exist! It’s not possible!
Jane: I’m an emotional vegetarian, Jill. I know a lot of vegetarians and we tend to like the same films.
Jill: You could never finish your greens and you could suck a whole pig through a straw.
Jane: I’m not exclusively vegetarian Jill, if that’s what you’re trying to say. Vegetarianism for me is about saying yes to things…even meat.

Posted by John at 7:06 AM |