One Small Step

The NY Times is coming out with their own version of a Netvibes-like RSS Aggregator/Personal Newspaper. The phenomenon is referred to, I think, as The Daily Me. Personally, I use Netvibes daily and love it. It is the easiest to set up, allows a Mozilla-like tab interface, and aggregates from a lot of different sources. Plus, it also allows you to publish your tab so the world can see your newspaper.

The NY Times version appears to be stricken by the same old corporate hang-ups of being afraid to give up control, etc. The NY Times is only allowing RSSs feeds from certain sources. This is a stupid and short-sighted move. It will result in far less users than is possible and therefore traffic and ad revenue.

Slate wrote a great article about this, as well as Gawker.



Two years ago tomorrow, I wrote this post. Again I'll apologize to Kirsten Dunst for it, but stand by it like Trent Lott and that thing in the old days ... wink wink. The post has some things I'd like to change now, but can't because of ethics and time.