Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology – Chronicle.com

READ: Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology – Chronicle.com

Will blogs lose their click-throughs and stickiness to RSS-grabbing sites like Shyftr? Possibly, but it seems equally possible that these aggregators would help introduce new visitors to individual blogs, which otherwise might go undiscovered in the typical blog rolls or Technorati searches.

links for 2008-04-14

• Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics
  The SPJ Code of Ethics is voluntarily embraced by thousands of writers, editors and other news professionals. The present version of the code was adopted by the 1996 SPJ National Convention, after months of study and debate among the Society’s members.
  (tags: journalism ethics media)

Google aims to penetrate the Deep Web

READ: Google aims to penetrate the Deep Web with HTML forms crawling – ComputerWorld

“This experiment is part of Google’s broader effort to increase its coverage of the Web,” Google noted. “In fact, HTML forms have long been thought to be the gateway to large volumes of data beyond the normal scope of search engines. The terms Deep Web, Hidden Web or Invisible Web have been used collectively to refer to such content that has so far been invisible to search engine users. By crawling using HTML forms … we are able to lead search-engine users to documents that would otherwise not be easily found in search engines, and provide Web masters and users alike with a better and more comprehensive search experience.”

Whoa… even attempting this is huge.

Facebook unveils instant message feature

Facebook unveils instant message feature – CNN.com

Cool! So can this be integrated into Pidgin or Trillian?