6 critical changes needed to revive 'Big Brother'

"Big Brother 9" concluded Sunday night, and Adam walked away with the $500,000 prize. Runner-up Ryan received the $50,000. The most remarkable part about that conclusion was that it's pretty unremarkable.

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Seven-year-old Madison Wells is probably not going to be feeding any more 6-foot iguanas.

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I find myself relying on traditional feed readers less and less these days (stream readers like TweetDeck and Seesmic have replaced them as an hourly habit).

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MySpace and Citysearch are jointly announcing a new MySpace property this morning called MySpace Local. The site combines Citysearch business listings (including address, photos, menus, videos, maps and hours of location) from a thousand cities with the MySpace community.

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There are so many popular sites providing services these days that you're bound to want to integrate with them to display feeds of your own or others content on them.

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Excerpt: Since ABC's "Nightline" aired a story last week about Salma Hayek's goodwill trip to Sierra Leone, there has been a world-wide outpouring of reaction.

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Google Reader Updated

I logged into Reader this morning to catch up on my daily comics and news, coffee in hand, to find it has an upgrade. The update is mainly to the look-and-feel, grouping things better, making provision for collapses, and squaring off all the round bits.

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Users who hadn't already left Bloglines for Google Reader and other functional RSS readers are doing so now, largely because Bloglines has stopped working and the company has done absolutely nothing to communicate to users what is going on or when it might be fixed.

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Introducing Planet Paradox

Browsing through news can be tiring, even with the help of sites like newsvine. You have to switch around, and visit various pages, just to get information about stories you like. But then there are the planets and aggregators.

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It appears Feedster is no more. Off into the Internet nether-world alongside Kozmo, Pets.com, and Webvan. I've been monitoring the situation for a week and they haven't been responding to ICMP packets the entire time

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RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog's popularity and its success in the blogosphere. However, although millions do use RSS, hundreds of millions don't.

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What's On Your Aggregator?

Whether you use Google Reader or another aggregator, many of us clip a variety of RSS feeds for audio, video, news, and more. In the spirit of some of the 'What's in Your System Tray,' and 'What's on Your Desktop,' share what's on your aggregator.

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Today.com has recently set up an entire RSS syndication, feed, and directory that you can submit your blog to. It also has a comments and voting section. You can also create a blog, and then submit the posts here.

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Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place

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Check out my pipes, baby

I can't help flashing it anymore. And I could use some help polishing one of my pipes. Yahoo! Pipes is still in beta and I haven't read a word of documentation or tutorial. But it works and it illustrates some of the more innovative aspects of the whole web 2 thing.

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Uberblogger Robert Scoble is truly one-of-a-kind. For those who don't know, he became famous as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and quickly became their most outspoken and influential blogger.

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It had to happen sometime: now you can read your feeds through your Nintendo Wii, thanks to some bright sparks at Google.

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Now, clicking the "Email" link at the bottom of an item gives you the ability to:

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Attensa unveiled significant enhancements to their enterprise RSS Feed Server, a dedicated web feed server designed to manage business RSS, ATOM and XML feeds for users and groups behind the firewall.

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Rick Klau, Feedburner's VP of Publishing Services, has disclosed some very interesting findings regarding RSS feed consumption by users.

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How to: tame your RSS sources using Feed Rinse

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One of the nicest features of Google Reader is the ability to share. This has allowed for the birth of social feed reading, an exciting new way to look at your feeds.

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Reasons why marketers should syndicate their content.

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Like it or not, RSS is now very popular across the internet, and it is widely believed to be the most productive way of staying updated on your favourite blogs and sites. The ease and efficiency of RSS feeds vs.

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A four legged duck, Anna Nicole, a giant squid, test your news knowledge by taking the quiz.

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