Archive for February 11th, 2004

That Journalism Presentation

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

Tonight’s class was possibly the best class I’ve guest lectured at. I knew it was going to be different when one of the students asked if we could get a pizza. I told him to ask the guest speaker, not the instructor, and I’d say yes. Then, they wouldn’t have to listen to me for […]

Unsubscribe Request as an RSS Feed

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

There’s a bizarre thing happening in my aggregator that began over the weekend. I keep getting feeds with no title attribute asking me to unsubscribe from that feed. The subscription list uses the title attribute to list the feeds, so any feed missing the title tag isn’t on the list, which means I can’t […]

The Value of an Encyclopedia on CD-ROM

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

Garrett responded to something Dave Winer wrote that came out of a recent conversation he had: “Who needs an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM when you have the Web at your fingertips?” Three reasons pop into my mind about why an encyclopedia on CD-ROM might be better than the Internet: disappearing information on the Internet, misinformation […]


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