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Edward Murrow

We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear - one, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men; Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were - for the moment - unpopular.

Sun, 10/09/2005 - 19:07 — charlie.collins

Cooper pointed me at Netvibes.com and its definitely worth a post.

Its a "Web 2.0" app (I am honestly not really sure what that means, yeah that means I am way behind on my marketese, alas, oh well, maybe it means it meets W3C standards and uses Javascript and XML? - oh, my bad again, nowadays thats called AJAX ;)) and its really really slick.

Its a lot like the new Personalized Google with weather, feeds, gmail and it also has a "price watch" widget. All AJAXy drop and drag the widgets on a web page, the difference between this thing and Google is twofold, its much better looking (and you can view the contents of your feeds right there without leaving the site - nice) and it ACTUALLY WORKS.

I still have lots of problems with the new Google stuff, the feeds are broken (cant add your own damn feed, it has to be in the index somewhere, and several feeds I try to add are old and or broken in the index - totally silly that you cant just add a valid feed, but I guess they want to cache and handle everything) and or slow everywhere (personalized, Desktop, Web Clips in gmail, etc) and the weather *never* works for me even when I try different locations (server not found).

Anyway, Netvibes is much nicer all around and thats saying quite a bit when the competition is Google.