Comments on: Experiment reveals how fast Google News links breaking news http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/#comment-1194 TDavid Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:55:43 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/#comment-1194 Jon - <strike>the news is Flickr being bought by Yahoo story. My personal comments regarding the changing of a Scripting News post with certain comments being made is ancilliary and more of a just FYI thing. Maybe that should have been put in a separate post ...</strike> As I re-read my comments above, I think you are simply pointing out that there's no point in Scripting News being scanned because of the length, so just ignore the paragraph I wrote above (lol). Michael, thanks for posting that info. I do remember hearing something about this before, but it's nice to get some clarification on that. Jon - the news is Flickr being bought by Yahoo story. My personal comments regarding the changing of a Scripting News post with certain comments being made is ancilliary and more of a just FYI thing. Maybe that should have been put in a separate post …

As I re-read my comments above, I think you are simply pointing out that there’s no point in Scripting News being scanned because of the length, so just ignore the paragraph I wrote above (lol).

Michael, thanks for posting that info. I do remember hearing something about this before, but it’s nice to get some clarification on that.

]]> By: Jon Gales http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/#comment-1153 Jon Gales Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:02:43 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/#comment-1153 It would be silly for Google News to scan Scripting News--he posts very very short items, often without news relevance. Why is a link flame contest with any number of people news to Google? No one big picked up the Flickr story for a bit because it's a Sunday and because it was announced via a blog post, not via a press release. It would be silly for Google News to scan Scripting News–he posts very very short items, often without news relevance. Why is a link flame contest with any number of people news to Google?

No one big picked up the Flickr story for a bit because it’s a Sunday and because it was announced via a blog post, not via a press release.

]]> By: Michael Hanscom http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/#comment-1149 Michael Hanscom Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:42:47 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050320/1595/#comment-1149 > Usually bloggers strikethru their original words published though when they add or update them. In this case, though, he deleted the text entirely as if it was never there. Hmm, I wonder why he would do that? This has been a long standing issue with Dave, and it's lead to some interesting battles in the past -- the most notorious being <a href="http://www.diveintomark.org/" rel="nofollow">Mark Pilgrim</a>'s WinerWatcher (since 404'd, but you can get an overview of the situation at the time from posts by <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/07/11/winerWatcher" rel="nofollow">Simon Willison</a> and <a href="http://jogin.com/weblog/archives/2003/07/15/winer_watcher" rel="nofollow">Jogin.com</a>. And while I could be wrong on this, I believe that NetNewsWire's <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/features/htmldifferences.php" rel="nofollow">show differences</a> feature was (indirectly) inspired by this very event and WinerWatcher. (I'm not posting this as an attack on Dave or any such thing -- merely pointing out that the issue you bring up is a very real one that has caused difficulties in the past, and is often worth keeping in mind when reading Scripting News [IMHO].) > Usually bloggers strikethru their original words published though when they add or update them. In this case, though, he deleted the text entirely as if it was never there. Hmm, I wonder why he would do that?

This has been a long standing issue with Dave, and it’s lead to some interesting battles in the past — the most notorious being Mark Pilgrim’s WinerWatcher (since 404′d, but you can get an overview of the situation at the time from posts by Simon Willison and Jogin.com.

And while I could be wrong on this, I believe that NetNewsWire’s show differences feature was (indirectly) inspired by this very event and WinerWatcher.

(I’m not posting this as an attack on Dave or any such thing — merely pointing out that the issue you bring up is a very real one that has caused difficulties in the past, and is often worth keeping in mind when reading Scripting News [IMHO].)

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