Embargo’d Digital Newsprint?

Peter Scheer of the California First Amendment Coalition wrote an opinion piece in this Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle suggesting that the major print media (newspapers) should embargo their content for something like 24 hours before publishing it via online media sources. The thinking is that this would force people who wanted timely news to acquire it either via dead trees, or some sort of subscription service of the papers, which would bring them revenue and thus save the print establishment.

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Big Step 1: Going Multi-Server

As products get successful, they grow. For client applications that run on someone’s computer, this doesn’t necessarily represent a huge challenge: just make more CDs. For network applications in general, and web products in specific, this presents a different challenge. There are two distinct points in the growth of a web application which represent step functions in the level of complexity. I call these points the Big Steps. Today, I’ll cover Big Step 1, going multi-server.
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Cool Web 2.0 Stuff on Netscape.com

Imagine a personalized portal, customized to your interests and needs. It could have content from major sources that were based upon what you liked and didn’t like. Okay, big deal, there are lots of these, the most popular of which seems to be My Yahoo. But, now imagine that instead of just pushing the same stories, links, and Yahoo content, it allowed anyone to put any RSS feed they like onto the page. Yup, Google and Yahoo allow that, sure. But imagine it’s at Netscape.com, and the year is 1999. You’ve got the original My Netscape, which brought us something no less innovative and essential to the Web 2.0 experience than RSS.

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