USA Today distributes news by 'widget'
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USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.
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General Electric Co&#39; NBC Universal  unit said on Wednesday it will launch &quot;widgets&quot; of television  shows like &quot;Meet the Press&quot; and &quot;NBC Nightly News with Brian  Williams,&quot; allowing users to post NBC content on blogs and Web  sites.
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This week CNN is launching iReport.com, a site built completely on user-produced news.
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Amyloo was digging around the NY Times code weblog and found this OPML file, weighing in at a monstrous 3.3MB that contains some mysterious but rich data about the NY Times and a guide to using the Times to cover special topics that I don't think anyone outside the Times knew existed, but there it is, in a public folder, so lets have a look.  1. There are 10522 top-level headlines. There's no structure to the OPML, it's absolutely flat. Here's an HTML rendering of the list: timestopics.html.  2. It's a subscription list. Each item has four attributes, type, title, htmlUrl and xmlUrl.  3. The htmlUrl for each element points to a page of stories for the topic. For example, here's a page of stories about table tennis. On that page is a link to an RSS 2.0 feed containing the same information.  4. The xmlUrl links for at least some of the elements are broken, the error appears to be very simple, if you replace the ampersand with a question mark, it works.  If you look around at the topics you'll see it's an incredibly rich set of data. Here are just some of the topics that begin with the letter T: Tableware, Taste, Tattoos, Tax Credits, Tax Evasion, Taxation, Taxicabs and Taxicab Drivers, Tea, Teachers and School Employees, TED Conference News, Teflon, Telephones and Telecommunications, Television, Television Sets, Table Tennis, Terra Cotta, Terrorism, Tests and Testing, Textbooks, Thanksgiving Day.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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News sites may be tempted by an advertising scheme that lets them profit from ads linked to selected words within an article. But publishers who value a separation of editorial and advertising content should steer clear. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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Uncover financial insights for your business daily with The New York Times - the authority on market trend news and analysis. Now delivered to your home or business starting at $2.40/wk.
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USAToday has added social media features which transform the site from less of a McNews page into a sticky community site which takes a page from Yahoo News and Topix.net. The new social features which USAToday has added include reader comments, avatars and profiles, along with photo uploads, story tagging and story recommendations. Steve Rubel of Micro [...]
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A comment by Lane Becker on Scott Rosenberg's blog... "I've been using Winer's nytimesriver on my iPhone screen for weeks now, and it&#185;s far and away the best interface when you're reading on a mobile device." "Which is the point: it's all about context. It's not either/or, and it's not just different readers wanting different things. sometimes it's the same reader wanting different things at different times, in different situations." Exactly right. I use nytimesriver on my iPhone or Blackberry, but I don't use it on my desktop, where I prefer an interface with more controls. The small screen of a mobile device demands something simpler.  Slowly the word is getting out. I'd like to do it faster. It would be great if the TImes itself looked at this. If they can write about installation art in their lobby, why not tell their readers about a new way of reading Times news on a mobile device?  The Times was a leader in RSS too, but never reported on it. Perhaps there's a blind spot.
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A new website lets you bet on the outcome of evolving news stories. But it's for bragging rights only -- no real money changes hands.
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Really Simple Syndication technology, which lets news junkies get instant info feeds from multiple sites, is grabbing investors' attention. The latest evidence: a multimillion-dollar funding round for RSS developer Technorati. By Daniel Terdiman.
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven news sources.
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Also: Your iris as photo watermark. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Access has developed a widget system for its NetFront mobile browser.
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New widgets help personalize maps with dynamic content from diverse sources.
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NBC Universal said some of its news, entertainment, and sports television programming will be available for use on blogs, social network profiles, and the like as widgets.