Arif Maftuhin

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts. Consumers of RSS content use special browsers called aggregators to watch for new content in dozens or even hundreds of web feeds. Teknologi RSS sebenarnya sudah berusia lama, sejak 1995an, tapi baru populer akhir-akhir ini saja. Media Utama di Indonesia pun sampai sekarang belum banyak yang memasang fasilitas ini. So far, baru Kompas. Detik.com belum menyediakan. Browser yang paling populer di antara kita, IE, juga baru berencana meng-embed RSS akhir tahun lalu dan akhirnya di-embed ke IE7 (udah pada update belum?). Saya sendiri baru mengenalnya kira-kira bulan Februari tahun ini ketika saya mulai menggunakan agregrator (reader) Blogline dan kemudian di My Yahoo yang versi baru. Nah, masalahnya. Selama ini agregator (saya lebih suka menyebutnya "reader") itu bersifat personal, tidak untuk publik. Ya kayak kita langganan koran untuk kita sendiri. Kita...

INTRODUTION In June 2006, the PEW Global Attitudes Project released its survey on U.S. global support. The result of that survey simply did not surprise those who pay attention to international affairs. During six years of the Bush administration, according to the survey, the global support for America has slipped significantly, either in America’s allies or non-allies. In Great Britain, America’s closest ally, favorable opinion of the US has decreased from 83 percent in 1999/2000 to 56 percent in 2006. While in France, it slipped from 62 percent to 39 percent. [1] Another survey by PEW Project in 2005, more interestingly, has shown that the source of anti-Americanism is President Bush and his foreign policy, rather than America in general. In Canada, 54 percent said Bush is the problem while 37 percent viewed America in General; while in Spain, it is 76 percent for Bush and 14 percent for America. Only in non-ally countries, such as Russia, that America outnumbered Bush....