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Today I unsubbed from the Industry Standard feed. Every item had an ad in it. I found this too distracting because I read each item as a unit, and my mind has to work too hard to split it in two. After trying to live with it for months, today I gave up. Also today CBS MarketWatch started putting sponsored links into their feed. They show up even when there's no other new items. I'll try it this way for a few days, but I have a feeling that the annoyance-to-utility ratio for this feed isn't good enough, I'll probably unsub. And this is okay. I've never had the option to unsub from spam in email, so I feel especially empowered here, in control, and okay with it.   On of the mysteries of my new iPod is why the Playlists menu doesn't appear on the screen of the iPod. I've set it up to automatically update all songs and playlists. I created a playlist. Then did everything I can think of to cause it to synch up. But over on the iPod, there is no Playlists menu. I've tried shutting it off and starting it up again. No luck. Any ideas, much appreciated.  Mike Cohen writes: "It sounds like the playlist menu somehow got turned off. Go to settings -> main menu and click on playlists to turn it on." Exactly right. Problem fixed. Thanks! 
Alan Kleymeyer: "I'm really excited to finally have our second product, SmartManila, released."  Gossip's bootleg RSS feeds palooza.   Salon: "Just off the heels of the official Democratic veep announcement, left-wing reactions to the Edwards pick are ranging from incredulous to the ecstatic."  Jeremy Zawodny: "The pinger simply accelerates the refresh process. There's no conspiracy here." 
Adam needs some help with UserLand's aggregator API.   BBC: "Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has formally announced Senator John Edwards as his running mate."  Email sent by Kerry to email subscribers.  Signs of life at the Edwards weblog.   The DNC says they'll announce which bloggers will get credentials for the convention later this month.   More BlogTalk blogalia from Vienna via Paolo.  Apartment 11D: "When bloggers personally attack others, who are not public officials or celebrities just private citizens trying to go about their work, this undemocratic creation is deeply troubling." 
In my opinion, a reporter should be thirsty for information, and passionate about conveying it. It should bother you when you got the story wrong, and you should put aside pride or ego when the object of your story tells you you got it wrong. Get out the notepad and get the real story. I think this is so basic, perhaps it should be a third tenet of real reporting, along with 1. Disclose your interests. 2. Never knowingly say something that's not true. In the last flamefest, this is what separated the real reporters, professional or amateur, from the space-occupiers. Did they care what the actual story was, or were they just bloating the blogosphere with more uninformed crap. There was a lot of the latter, very little of the former.
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