Campus 'mini-Napster' suits settled. The record industry's trade group settles copyright suits against four university students, in deals that will see each student paying out thousands. [CNET News.com]

Settled each for less than 20K, no admission of guilt, no more song swapping.  Yawn.  Nice intimidation, but with no real litigation there is nothing to test the legality of what the RIAA is doing and that is a problem.

5:32:15 PM    comment []  

John Stanforth. Re: Cross-tool weblog portability [klogs]

This is the latest post in a good discussion about using blogs for knowledge management and some of the short comings in current tools.  Of particular note is the notion that there should be an RSS file for every level of archive, not just the home page.  This makes sense since then there would be a way to aggregate information that is older and harder to find.  The current implementations of RSS and blogs (permalinks not withstanding) focus on new, current items.  Once it passes from the homepage you need to rely on google to find it.  If every level of archive generated an RSS feed, an aggregator could find those that items that may be a year old, but still relevant.

Using OPML to create a directory of a sites RSS feeds also makes sense because OPML is a natural for directories.  You could then point a browser at the OPML directory of site feeds and find what you are looking for.  Sounds like a winner to me.

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