Jason Kottke, the disappointing professional blogger, supposedly takes more time over his remaindered links these days. On Tuesday, he linked to a debate between Adam Gopnik and Malcom Gladwell on the subject of US healthcare. But he, er, failed to look at the date. Says Gladwell:
That was six years ago! I've now changed my mind. I now agree with virtually everything Adam said and disagree with virtually everything I said. In fact, I shudder when I read what I said back then.
But hey – Gladwell's blogging! Now to get him to stop truncating his RSS...
Nice to see the link to Gladwell's blog. I suspect I'll be seeing it all over the place tomorrow.
I subscribed to the feed and found that I was, in fact, seeing entire posts in my feed reader (NetNewsWire -- I tested Safari and Bloglines, and they both work, too). It seems that the full content is available in a <content> section (described here) for each item.
Posted by: wka on February 24, 2006 02:51 AMhuh. /index.rdf gives the full feed, while /atom.xml, which is what I was looking at, is truncated. Weird.
Posted by: Felix on February 24, 2006 07:24 AMKottke blows, although nice going on the millionaire fiance, I guess. Micropatron indeed.
Posted by: sac on February 24, 2006 03:04 PMAnd, four days later, Kottke notices. The blog, that is. But still doesn't bother to mention that Gladwell's views have changed.
Posted by: Felix on February 28, 2006 06:03 AMFelix, what's with the meow! meow! attitude toward Kottke? He makes the world a prettier place, doesn't he? Why nitpick?
Posted by: Sterling on February 28, 2006 06:35 AM