Google has created a news aggregator, Google Reader. Use your Google Gmail username and password to login. I wonder if it will be a strong competitor to Bloglines?

Web 2.0 is becoming quite the new buzz word for the changing Internet. These two texts (via elearnspace) offer a nice introduction to the topic for understanding what it means for the Internet in general and for the future of elearning.

• MacManus and Porter 's Web 2.0 for Designers
• Downes's What E-Learning 2.0 means To You

In RSS: A Big Success In Danger of Failure, Bill Burnham likens RSS to push technology and forecasts that the growth of RSS will result in its failure:

The problem is only going to get worse. Each day as the number of RSS channels grows, the “noise” created by these different channels (especially by individual blogs which often have lots of small posts on widely disparate topics) also grows, making it more and more difficult for users to actually realize the “personalized” promise of RSS. After all, what’s the point of sifting through thousands of articles with your reader just to find the ten that interest you? You might as well just go back to visiting individual web sites.

However, I'm in agreement with Stephen Downes in How RSS Can Succeed, who points out the importance of intelligent filtering:

Information Today reported last week that the W3C has completed the standards for RDF and OWL. See the W3C's news release as well.