Dr. John Gotze of Denmark outlines ten good reasons why RSS is important.  Excellent reasons all.  Ken Hansen of Administrative Rules has recreated his Governor's Executive Documents site which offers RSS feeds for each of the following categories:

• Creation of Boards / Commissions
• Delegation of Authority
• Education
• Governor's Executive Orders
• Governor's Proclamations
• Growth
• Special Session
• Technology

Check the latest course offerings from GILS if you are a Utah employee wanting to add RSS functionality to your site.  And you can find more relevant news feeds at gilsUtah News.

5:56:08 PM    

from David Fletcher's site:

This just in from Community Broadband Networks:

In a letter to mayors and city councils of the 18 UTOPIA cities, a group, TechNet, representing the leadership of much of America's high tech industry strongly advocated the cities back the multi-city UTOPIA FTTH (fiber to the home) project:  "We strongly endorse the UTOPIA city fiber project and wish you well in bringing it to a successful launch in 2004"

This week, West Valley City became the first member of UTOPIA to vote in support of the bond to fund the initial rollout.

1:28:30 PM    

PatrickWeb Blog

John Patrick who brought the Internet to IBM has joined Opera's Board of Directors. He also joined the Board of Directors of Knovel Corporation. You can get the story straight from Patrick's blog.

John shares his thoughts on the future of blogging in an interview with CIO magazine.

"NetAttitude" is John's book on what he thinks is the future of the Internet. Jonn summarizes this book in a Network World Fusion article.

Over the past year of conference speaking, Mr. Patrick found one of the most intersting speakers he met was Brewster Kahle who founded Alexa and the Internet Archive. In November Kahle made news with the Wayback Machine which creates the ability for people to browse through 30 billion web pages, which includes web pages from 1996 to now.

11:56:39 AM