Peter Cooper, the developer behind RSS Digest, today’s most popular addition to the ‘blogosphere’, was kind enough to reply to an email I fired off to him (all of an hour ago), and… GREAT NEWS… he’s got Atom support working…

I just found out that Pamela Parker, one of my favorite ClickZ writers (how does one choose between Pamela and Danny Sullivan?!) has her own blog named The River. Catching up on her previous posts, it seems that her blog…

Search Engine Watch Blog had a post on RSS Digest, service that allows you to insert nicely formatted headlines from a blog feed into ANY HTML page… without writing a line of code! (SEW Blog mentions that there are actually…

CNET’s News.com reports that Warner Brothers has been gracious enough to allow Netflix to test VOD with would-be-partner Tivo. I’ve previously written about the Netflix/Tivo combo (Netflix can do better), including a likely end game scenario (VOD is a commodity,…

TechDirt reports on a piece by John C. Dvorak claiming that the reason why newspapers force registration is so that they can spam you… I can only speak from my experience at Knight Ridder Digital, so perhaps the practices are…

A few weeks ago, Susan Mernit, a fellow entreprenuer and consultant whom I hold in high regard (and for full disclosure, who I’m building a personal friendship with), was named a Sr. Fellow at The Media Center, a non-profit “think…

Search Engine News :: Search Engine Lowdown: Ask Jeeves Taps Topix.net to Deliver Local News Search Engine Lowdown reports that Ask Jeeves is now delivering Local News thanks to a relationship with Topix.net. Two thoughts here: 1. Topix has a…

Deeje Cooley and I had dinner tonight to catch up on life, shared interests, and of course all things technology. Amongst a variety of trends spotted, product futures foreseen and ideas generated, one question in particular stands out in my…

Pamela Parker gets the scoop the other big outlets missed in announcing AOL’s new Shopping Search offering. In addition to providing the online comparison shopping services that everyone has already reported, AOL will also return local offline “steals and deals”…

“ID:Entity”, a frequent commentor on John Battelle’s Search Blog, replied to my post on Search Engines and Active Listening, originated by Jeremy Zawodny. Here’s his reply: Tony, I agree, but what happens if you swtich search provider, how long till…