There are a few net innovations that have far greater ramifications than you
would, at first hearing, expect them to. Napster, at heart just IRC with a UI,
- The front page changes its editorial stance depending on where the earth's
terminator[2] is. So in the evening on the West Coast, Google News is lead by
the South China Morning Post, and various Asian english-language papers. By the
late evening, the BBC and European papers are kicking in.
- The site may be created by algorithms - but what about the choice of sites?
The most arbitrary dividing line I see in Google's coverage is what is a news
site, and what isn't. Slashdot[3] is, for instance, as well as some very
obscure[4] newspapers. What about Blues News[5] or Scripting News[6], though?
- Big companies spend mucho money paying "clipping services" that send them
copies of any press coverage they receive. Clipping services are going to have
to find some added value, very[7] very[8] quickly.
sunrise-sunset line dividing the day and night halves of the Moon or a

from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1])
	by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7798516F17
	for <jm@localhost>; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:25 +0100 (IST)
from jalapeno [127.0.0.1]
	by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)
	for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:25 +0100 (IST)
from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
    dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8P80KC18058 for
    <jm@jmason.org>; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:00:20 +0100
Note to self: Read the pingback spec. Form opinion.
From rssfeeds@jmason.org  Wed Sep 25 10:23:25 2002

Note to self: Read the pingback spec[1]. Form opinion.

from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1])
	by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359AD16F03
	for <jm@localhost>; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:30 +0100 (IST)
from jalapeno [127.0.0.1]
	by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)
	for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:30 +0100 (IST)
from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
    dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8P80OC18097 for
    <jm@jmason.org>; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:00:24 +0100
Iowa: "There was frost outside this morning!"
From rssfeeds@jmason.org  Wed Sep 25 10:23:30 2002