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As I spend my last few months in New York City, I’m thrilled to be able to help out with an amazing project: NYWiki. I’ve added entries for some stuff in my current ‘hood, and for my old Gramercy haunts. It seems to be pretty early in the process, yet, so there’s plenty for all you New Yorkers to contribute. Check it out.

Battelle has a nice roundup of recent blogosphere discussion about the role of advertising in RSS feeds. My feeling: it’s inevitable. RSS feeds represent a cost to publishers (in terms of server load) and I don’t think headline-only type feeds (so structured to elicit a click and thus an ad served on the Web site) are what users are looking for. People generally understand that content costs money to produce, and they’re willing to be exposed to ads — and relevant ads can be a bonus — to access that content. I think users will eventually accept advertising in RSS in exchange for getting their content in this efficient, convenient format.

Well, Google’s got a perpetual patent license and Yahoo!’s getting 2.7 million shares .

Yahoo!’s goofing on Google for committing an apparent cardinal sin, when it hosted Google Dance 2004 at SES San Jose this week. Search for “SES party rule #1” on http://search.yahoo.com and you’ll get the easter egg. The company did a similar gag after the Onion wrote about it launching a “Soul Search” engine.  

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Is there a San Francisco-style blog that compares to Gawker or Gothamist? Who’s covering the culture and memes of the Bay Area in a thoughtful, engaging manner? Does that just not exist on the Left Coast? I know New York’s the media center and all, but surely there’s some RSS-ish way for me to get up to speed on what will soon become my home…

Don’t think I’m being completely LazyWeb about it. I have been looking on my own. But nothing really jumps out at me so far. Any help (in the comments or at theriver (at) mcnigel.com) would be much appreciated.

I knew it all along. Danny Sullivan is a god.

Unfortunately, missed SES this time around, but will surely make San Jose when it’s just down the road.