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"But the world is changing, and Time's 2010 Person of the Year, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, is creating that change. While politicians stand in the way of progress, entrepreneurs like Zuckerberg make it. While governments operate in secret, Facebook embraces transparency. And while governments' use of force and monopoly leads to unwanted associations and tensions between various groups, the nearly 600 million people on Facebook choose whom they want to be friends with."

My emphasis. There's even more praise in the article.

Good clarification.

You may be right. But how is anyone supposed to approach Apple with business proposals under these conditions?

Interesting stuff. Reads like Apple sees itself as a walled garden of creativity, innovation and initiative. Any external, unsolicited idea that crosses the semipermeable walls of Cupertino is swallowed into a black hole becoming Apple's property.

This gives a whole different meaning to all the recent "ideas are worthless, execution counts" talk. If you're very lucky, your idea may result in another exceptional Apple product which you can then buy in a store.

The original page randomly changes on refresh. Can you make the feed dynamic, too?

Or http://elvis.vi-editor.org ?

Such a generalizing statement that would be so easy to disprove that I shall abstain from doing so.

That's the short answer. Winer has more to say about it: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/05/aReallyGoodAnalogy.h...

Summary: RSS is alive, most UI's miss the point of the format but people are continuing to build new things with it.

So you basically forked a piece of paper!

Also check out the PocketMod. It has similar foldings, is customizable with "mods" and has its own website since 2005: http://www.pocketmod.com/

The table titled "The US web search market share and volume" doesn't look convincing. The share for 2010 only shows October and November. How did Bing/Yahoo perform before?

Does the duplication of private information reduce it's value? I think it does. If there is a transfer of value from you to a company then you can call transfer that a sort of payment. The company may sell you something in return, but I wouldn't confuse selling with paying.

If you pay with your data instead of money, how does that make a service "free"? It would only be free if your data was worthless. But then they would not collect it in the first place.

Encryption would just make sure that only Google gets your search queries. They would still profile your searches. Also, opting out of Google Analytics does not affect your search profile.

But then, why should we have to opt out of this instead of opting in?

Sounds good as a resolution, but sticking to a book may not work for all.

There is no single recipe that fits everyone's needs. But it's safe to go step by step, from basic tutorials to coding practice to understanding more complex code. Invest in a good reference book later when you know you will stick to the language.

As an absolute beginner you could first have a look at these pages: http://www.php.net/manual/en/getting-started.php and http://devzone.zend.com/article/627 Then you could play around with some code before learning a simple but powerful framework like Kohana or Codeigniter.

Are you trying to pitch RSS against privacy enhancing technologies such as NoScript, TOR, etc.? The point is rather that more privacy is a neat side effect of RSS, not its primary purpose.

The primary purpose of RSS - aggregation of content -- works very well, irrespective of bad UI decisions which have nothing to do with RSS itself. And when you pull a full text RSS feed, you're probably far away from "Like" buttons and the like while reading content.

Why should I have to do all that if RSS already exists? There's no reason to accept letting this working technology die.

I agree that browsers are unnecessary for RSS though.

It wouldn't die if enough people were convinced like the author that it shouldn't die.

You can take his concern seriously, RSS autodiscovery in FF is working fine on his page. And that's the feature the author would like to keep in the future.

Yes, but too bad Gibson's latest books read as if they're from the past...

Disagree. The author clearly refers to corporations like Facebook and Twitter tracking your reading behavior.