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...about technology and the media from his home in Cardiff, Wales, since 2001. When he started out, Andrews, 26, would spend a couple of hours each morning trawling the Web in search of subjects for his opinion pieces. Now, thanks to a humble Web format called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), most of what he needs is ready and waiting for him on his desktop when he logs on. Andrews uses a downloadable software called a news reader to subscribe to feeds from RSS-enabled websites that match his interests in new technology. Whenever those feeds are updated, an outline...
...that, instead of having to reach out to a plethora of newspapers, TV channels and websites, news consumers could customize information that would be "pushed" across their computer screens all day. But the early push advocates stumbled, victims of poor management, clunky technology and their own hype. With RSS, though, it seems like the push dream has finally arrived. "We're seeing the TiVo-ization of news," says Dave Sifry, referring to the recordable TV service that allows viewers to pick and choose what programs they want to watch and when they want to watch them. As founder...
...party touts Vajpayee as its benign, paternal face at the national level, it allows some of its local leaders to ignore any harassment of Muslims by Hindus in their states. And despite the friction between the BJP and its right-wing support base, the party will still use the RSS, which has 50,000 branches throughout India and at least 2 million active members, during the coming elections. RSS members are expected to campaign for the BJP and to take over some party jobs, freeing BJP officials to concentrate on electioneering. Some observers think Hindu right-wing groups such...
...destroy the Babri mosque at the sacred Hindu site of Ayodhya, so bringing religion into the very heart of politics. Moreover, the BJP was allied to many extreme Hindu-fundamentalist groups. Indeed, it was founded as the political associate of a neofascist paramilitary organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS...
...this day, many senior BJP figures, including the Prime Minister, have RSS backgrounds and hold posts in both organizations. The RSS and the BJP still believe that India is in essence a Hindu nation and that the minorities may live in India only if they acknowledge this. After all, the RSS was founded in imitation of European fascist movements, and its early ideologue, Madhav Golwalkar, drew direct inspiration from the Holocaust. "To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging of its Semitic races?the Jews," he once wrote. "National pride...