January 17, 2004

Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online (AP). AP - Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and women who are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit the Internet for connecting them with the politically like-minded, according to a worldwide study coordinated by UCLA. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 4:38:08 PM

New Opera contains RSS Reader. The new Opera 7.5 beta contains a built-in RSS reader (cumbersome to get to / discover though ... ). It... [Disruptive Technology] 9:44:55 AM

Netflix. On demand movies by mail [Cool Tools] 9:36:29 AM

Yahoo rides the web wave into the future - again. Canadian Press Jan 17 2004 2:17PM GMT... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:31:48 AM

Turning consumers into producers. The final scan of my RSS feeds, last night, pulled in an item from Doc Searls who said that he was on live radio at The Linux Show. (Doc's item also mentions the RSS Winterfest Webcast a week from today. I'll be there; the complete list of participants is here.) When I clicked through to The Linux Show's stream, I heard Doc say some things about the recent Macworld and CES shows that really hit home -- so much so that I wanted to hear them again. I reached for the RealPlayer's slider, but it was unresponsive. Doc wasn't kidding, he really was coming live from that radio show. His announcement of that fact made it from his computer to his blog to my aggregator in time for me to catch the live stream. Just another one of the daily miracles that I can't yet bring myself to take for granted. ... [Jon's Radio] 9:21:25 AM

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