{"id":1942,"date":"2005-02-11T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomatt.net\/2005\/02\/11\/open-source-blogs\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T19:59:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T03:59:31","slug":"open-source-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2005\/02\/open-source-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing around more with Newsburst today, and one thing that struck me was the organization of the defaults. Where in the world did they come from? You could do this with most any category, but let&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsburst.com\/8054-10631-0.html\">take a look<\/a> at &#8220;Open Source&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/builder.com.com\/\">Builder.com.com<\/a> &#8212; not sure what the site is doing, but the feed does have two mentions of open source software, but it seems to just be re-branded stories from News.com, so I&#8217;m not sure what the point is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linux.dell.com\/blog\/\">Linux Dell Blog<\/a> &#8212; Frequently down but hardcore open source.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkstain.net\/fleck\/\">jfleck<\/a> &#8212; I suppose the connection is he contributes to Gnome. Okay&#8230; No posts about OS on the front page, and even the category they subscribe to looks to be updated about twice a month.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuro5hin.org\/\">Kuro5hin<\/a> &#8212; A great site, but nothing about Open Source in the feed lately. It&#8217;s more tech-culture.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/\">Linux.com<\/a> &#8212; dry, but valid.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kroah.com\/log\/\">linux kernel monkey log<\/a> &#8212; valid.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/primates.ximian.com\/~miguel\/activity-log.php\">Miguel de Icaza<\/a> &#8212; Good choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsforge.com\/\">NewsForge<\/a> &#8212; groovy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/channels.lockergnome.com\/news\/\">Lockergnome Tech News Watch<\/a> &#8212; covers tech but not too much OS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\">Scripting News<\/a> &#8212; Many things, but not an open source blog. Besides, it&#8217;s listed several other places already.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> &#8212; who would argue with this?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What would be cool if Newsburst let me tag a feed when I subscribed to it, then highlight popular tags and the most popular &#8220;sources&#8221; within them. Forget what they think &#8220;open source&#8221; is, I want the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/opensource\">opensource tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The way to get people hooked on blogs has nothing to do with RSS feeds or river of conciousness displays or whatever, it&#8217;s all the fantastic content that&#8217;s being created out there by people in the trenches. If you had a passing interest in learning about open source, you would get 60+% junk if you subscribed to that channel group. Where is <a href=\"http:\/\/blakeross.com\/\">Blake Ross&#8217; passion about Firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.osafoundation.org\/mitch\/\">Mitch Kapor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/open-source\/\">ZDNet&#8217;s OS Blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/blog-view.php?blogid=6\">Sitepoint&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/\">Spread Firefox<\/a>, or anything from the people that are creating the applications that are changing the way we live, work, and play? Are blogs that talk about open source that hard to find?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing around more with Newsburst today, and one thing that struck me was the organization of the defaults. Where in the world did they come from? 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