The RSS Advisory Board has had a checkered past and its share of run-ins with Dave Winer over RSS 2.0. There have been times where it was right to question how relevant it had become.
This announcement by Netscape lends a great deal of credibility to the Board-sans-Winer, and hopefully will increase the adoption [...]

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Newsgator has announced that a bevy of their RSS/Atom clients, including the excellent FeedDemon is now free:
FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. Each of these is a pretty major release on its own - tons of new features in all of them.
But second, every one of [...]

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The literary world - especially academics - has a number of readability metrics that show how “hard” a given work is to read in English. If you are a writer, these metrics can give you a pretty good swag at how easy it will be for people to read your work.
In this [...]

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