February 23, 2006

Kottke vs Gladwell

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...

Posted by Felix at 11:06 PM GMT
Comments
#1

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 AM
#2

huh. /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 AM
#3

Kottke blows, although nice going on the millionaire fiance, I guess. Micropatron indeed.

Posted by: sac on February 24, 2006 03:04 PM
#4

And, 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 AM
#5

Felix, 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
#6

How does/did Kottke make the world prettier? The Gawker logo?

Posted by: 99 on February 28, 2006 06:19 PM
#7

Kitty cats crawling all over the place.

Posted by: Sterling on February 28, 2006 06:56 PM