Digging for truth in Information Technology news is like panning for gold. Every day, fools gold is found in mountains of rubble. Buried within are a few real nuggets of truth, making the effort worthwhile.
The rubble is mostly public relations pieces containing the words "charts," "initiatives," "innovations," "looks to future," "plans," "preparing," "preview," "readies," "reveals," "says," "soon," "suggests," "targets," "touts," "visions", "working on," and other nonsense, are gussied up to look like real news. Most of the PR "news" spewing forth isn't fit to publish as real news. Yet, most IT news organizations are making a living from it. Many don't bother rewriting the stuff and some even seem to be manipulating the news. Some days it takes a strong stomach to wade through the muck.
Story synopsis and links appearing in ITnews are panned from more than 100 Really Simple Syndication (RSS) news sources using NetNewsWire running on a Mac. When a nugget is found, NetNewsWire sends it on to Radio Userland running on the same Mac, which prepares it for publishing, and then sends it on to an Apache Web server being hosted on a FreeBSD virtual server at Interland. Searching the ITnews archives is a service being provided by Atomz.
I hope you enjoy reading ITnews as much as I enjoy producing it.
...John
Originally from Information Technology News, ReBlogged by dymaxion on Apr 11, 2004 at 06:54 PM