From rssfeeds@jmason.org Wed Sep 25 10:23:19 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2488716F03 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:19 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:19 +0100 (IST) Received: from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8P80RC18109 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:00:27 +0100 Message-Id: <200209250800.g8P80RC18109@dogma.slashnull.org> To: yyyy@example.com From: oblomovka Subject: Google News Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:27 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=utf-8 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: URL: http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/09/24#1032870720 Date: 2002-09-24T05:32:00-0700 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, was one. Google News[1] is another. In its first day, I've already noticed: - 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. [1] http://news.google.com/ [2] http://www.concentric.net/~marsface/glossary.htm#sectT The sunrise-sunset line dividing the day and night halves of the Moon or a planet. [3] http://www.slashdot.org/ [4] http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/ [5] http://www.bluesnews.com/ [6] http://www.scripting.com/ [7] http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22Danny+O%27Brien%22&btnG=Google+Search [8] http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=www.ntk.net&btnG=Google+Search