Why no Media Guardian RSS

The Guardian has launched “Web Feeds” – their renaming of RSS feeds. But no feed for Media Guardian. Why? Because it’s going to be part of a premium service? Or they want people to visit the site rather than read headlines via RSS? This seems like an odd omission.

Why DM Europe sucks

1. Sub-100 words stories. Want to know more? Sorry. 2. Bad categories: “Tech & IT”?! “, “Mobile and Wireless”?! 3. Advertises “PR services” alongside “News” 4. Allows anyone to write, such as a Web usability firm pushing its own releases and clients. 5. Scant editing: “Microsoft says it is ready to unbundled (sic). media player” 6. Rarely publishes comments on stories. 7. Lastly it sucks because despite all these appalling

Worthless networking

I’ve just been invited to “make a connection” online on a business networking site with someone who says they are an “Entrepreneur/Management/Sales”. His profile says he has 303 “friends” in a network of “69,799”. I’ve never met him. So exactly how useful is this person going to be to me? Answer: hardly at all. How could anyone so undiscerning (303 friends) over who they network with actually be worthwhile knowing?