technology blogs

According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, blog has become commonplace. In 2004, readers of blogs increased 58 percent, that of the 27 percent of overall Internet users, or 32 million people. 12 percent of the active read blogs also add comments on blogs. (Quote from CNet News.com)

Just as blogs, are now almost all the news sites with RSS feeds facility). This facility allows the reader to read the news. As we know, news sites and blogs on the Internet very much. By using RSS syndication, the reader can use third-party programs to collect and then read all the news in one place.

CNet News.com has even adopted some previously popular technology blogs in the world, the Trackback and Pingback. Both these technologies enables a blog-maker to make the relevant links on other blogs. So that blog readers can easily navigate to other blogs that have relevant information. System comments, Trackback and Pingback to make proclamation that made a whole blog to be very complete.

If the definition of blog is a collection of writings compiled by time and category, and equipped with the comment system, Trackback and Pingback, CNet News.com is a technology also can be said is a blog, although CNet News.com historically departing from the traditional technology news site, while the blogs are generally depart from small sites or private.

And what about the news site conditions in Indonesia? Not one who has a syndicated facility of RSS, especially Trackback or Pingback: (. In technology, the quality of online news systems in the country is concerned. In addition, the reusability factor also has not been touched by the news site. In my opinion, this factors triggered the arrogance and ignorance. Sources such news does not want visitors to read news sites from third-party programs (RSS aggregator), probably because of the fear business (RSS aggregator does not display ads) or because they do not want the news from those sites grouped by news from other sites.

In my opinion it is not a good reason to not follow the technology. The news can be syndicated in the form of a summary, so to read the whole story, the reader is required to read from the original site. Syndication is something that can not be avoided. Information overload will one day become a problem for almost all Internet users. To fix this, Internet users will switch to syndication as a primary means of getting that information. Reluctance in using syndication is going to harm the provider of news sites, because readers will only look for other sources that have syndication.