Just back from a week in my childhood home of Dunoon, one of several towns which saw BT’s promise of broadband for this year casually broken by the company a few months back (reported here in a fabulously lame story in the local rag). So, back in Gotham tonight, I’ve been gorging on megabytes of broadband and running a few Technorati drags of the blogosphere to see what’s been going on.
Several hurrahs: good linkage to the first of our new columns from Glenn Reynolds and Markos Moulistsas (aka Instapundit and the Kos) and an enormous debate on our new Newsblog about what they’re saying, and why we’ve hired them (especially Reynolds).
Some undoubtedly loyal Guardian readers admit to shock at our recruiting a voice like the Instapundit, but the posters who refer to the importance of the liberal tradition of diversity (and who suggest the Guardian is adding to it) get it right, IMHO.
I’m also happy that someone’s noticed GU’s grand new webfeeds, and the fact we’re not calling them XML, or RSS, or anything similarly geeky. Maybe we should license out the shiny new webfeeds icon?
Webfeeds from the Guardian — I love it! I’ve just subscribed to several.
I’m especially pleased that the Guardian deliberately opted for the non-geeky nickname “webfeed.” In case you weren’t aware of this, I held a contest several months ago via my weblog CONTENTIOUS in which public voting and a panel of judges selected “webfeed” as the best available non-geeky nickname to help make webfeeds more palatable to a general audience.
See: http://blog.contentious.com/ar.....me-webfeed
I also just informed the journalism community about GU’s choice of feed terminology via the Poynter Institute’s group weblog E-Media Tidbits, to which I contribute:
- http://www.poynter.org/column......;aid=72368
Oh yeah — I really, REALLY want to use that slick webfeed icon. How do I go about getting permission for that? Or is it free for the taking?
Thanks!
- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS