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First Atom, now this. Quite the exciting week in feed land. Maybe I’ll write up a spec over the weekend, something like RSS 2/3.1. I wonder how to get Eweek to report it as if it were news? Anyway, I wonder what Dave will have to say?

Lightweight Version of RSS Released
“Shouldering past the community fear and loathing over Microsoft’s supposed plans to co-opt and rename its first implementation of the Web publishing technology, RSS editor Jonathan Avidan released a third, fully XML version of RSS for review and comment on Thursday.

The RSS (Really Simply Syndication) 3 specification aims to fix perceived problems of inadequate documentation and “lack of concern towards modern necessities” in RSS 2.0.“

This is one of the more reasoned reactions to the news that Google is slowing down its digital library plans in the face of complaints from copyright holders. Turns out the folks holding copyrights on works in those university libraries area bit skittish about having their works scanned by Google.

John Robb’s Weblog: Google vs. Publishers
“This battle has major repercussions. So far, it is being characterized as the classic x vs. y, that the media likes so much. It is more nuanced than that. It’s my understanding that Google is going to digitize and index all works, including copyrighted works not specifically excluded by the rights owners. If a work is copyrighted, Google will only display a short snippet and a link to a book store (or perhaps local library) where you can buy/borrow it. This is hardly “posting the work to the Internet,” and more like an upgrade to the Dewey decimal system.“

Law students wanted to blog… Neat idea. Jurist has certainly evolved into a great source for legal news and this year’s team of student editors has done a great job.

JURIST – Paper Chase: EDITORS WANTED ~ Research, write legal news in real time…
“JURIST is looking for talented, public-service oriented law students from law schools in the US and abroad to join our team of real-time legal news editors this fall. “

Note: I had mistakenly implied that this was a ‘blog for money’ situation when, in fact, the student editors of JURIST are a group of dedicated volunteers. Prof. Hibbitts reminds me “[t]he fact that JURIST student staffers work so hard, so long (days, evenings, weekends), and so enthusiastically *without* pay is the real story here. It’s a testament to their dedication, their commitment to public service, and their sense of what they get out of the good work they’re doing!”.