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What Brings Users to Blogs? 143

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @04:22PM from the skewed-sample-populations dept.

Billosaur writes "The Center for Citizen Media Blog has an interesting overview of the Collaborative News Survey 'Hype versus Reality', detailing the results of a study done by Hsing Wei from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on why users are attracted to collaborative news, commenting and blogging sites. Among the conclusions of the study are that people who use these sites are 'mostly young and male, especially those who visit technology-related sites, looking for 'a fix of unique, informative fun,' and 'filling in the blanks' left by traditional news sources. Or is it just because it beats working?"

Bookmark Dave Hurley / Editing & Motion Graphics (hurleymotion.com)

by SYFer on Tuesday April 04, 2006 @05:57AM

Faster Feeds Using FeedTree Peer-To-Peer 109

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 20, 2006 @02:49PM from the instant-gratification-generation dept.

dsandler writes "Researchers at Rice University have just released version 0.7 of FeedTree, a peer-to-peer system for distributing Web feeds faster. Instead of polling feeds independently, FeedTree users cooperate to share news updates using multicast in Pastry, a scalable p2p overlay network. FeedTree reduces the update delay for existing RSS and Atom feeds to a few minutes without putting extra stress on the webserver (anyone who's ever been temporarily banned by Slashdot's RSS feed knows this is a real concern). Feed publishers can also choose to push digitally signed updates for immediate, tamper-proof delivery to subscribers. The client software (download) runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows, and works with any desktop feed reader."

Going Dynamic with PHP 222

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 20, 2006 @02:06PM from the not-the-bastard-child-of-languages-anymore dept.

Five-Oh writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article about the OO advantages of PHP V's new features. From the article: "PHP V5's new object-oriented programming features have raised the level of functionality in this popular language significantly. Learn how to use the dynamic features of PHP V5 to create objects that bend to fit your needs."

Comment Re:There is no "University of Ohio" (Score 1) 180

by loyalsonofrutgers on Sunday February 13, 2005 @04:58PM (#11661855) Attached to: Scientists Find Flaw in Quantum Dot Construction

Ah, actually the Miami in Florida is the University of Miami, the Miami in Ohio is Miami University.

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