: RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy

US Federal agencies are starting to use RSS to disseminate information: Wired News: RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy

The Urban Archipelago, It's the Cities, Stupid

Via Salon, The Urban Archipelago, It's the Cities, Stupid., by The Editors of The Stranger (11/11/04):

It's time to state something that we've felt for a long time but have been too polite to say out loud: Liberals, progressives, and Democrats do not live in a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. We live on a chain of islands. We are citizens of the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America.