More (non) press for the well-deserved
March 31st, 2004There is an article in the Circuits section of the NYT about weblogs, collecting content from them, and searching them. Feedster gets a well deserved mention:
“Many blog publishers, and some traditional news sites, have embraced the digesting trend by offering feeds of their content in standardized formats. A site called Feedster monitors half a million such feeds and makes them searchable, adding new blog entries to its results less than an hour after they are published.”
Ironically, Kinja gets more play in the article, and it’s not even out yet, even though the article says it is (maybe it will be in the AM - we’ll see). A quote from the article re: Kinja:
“The site automatically compiles digests of blogs covering subject areas like politics and baseball. Short excerpts from the blogs are included, with links to the complete entries on the individual blog sites. After signing up for a free account with Kinja, users can enter the addresses of their favorite blogs and generate a digest - a customized blog of blogs.”
Ummm, Blogdigger Groups, Feedpapers, or Rollup anyone? Journalists really should do their homework first before they publish this stuff. Oh well, at least Feedster got some play.