BBC News
OK, so some of my blogs entries are to do with stuff I see in the news, which I see via my Google Reader feed which I generally see at work. I can’t blog from work (well, not easily, the iPhone and Wordpress don’t get on so well) as it’s against corporate policy (yes, I do flaunt it from time to time) so if I see an item I like I email the URL to myself and deal with it when I get home. Except I’ve noticed that the BBC change their stories. Same URL, different text to what I was reading 5 hours ago. No good if it doesn’t contain the material I wanted to rant about. Grrrr!
Lots of people have been moaning at Auntie Beeb about that - they alter their stories constantly (sometimes removing whole chunks).
There was talk on their News Editor blog of them providing revision history features sometime (allowing you to link back to the original), but it’s all gone quiet recently.
In answer to your iPhone posting dilemma:
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Plan A: What you need is WPhone.
Plan B: Seeing as you’re hosted, you may be able to use WP’s “blog by email” option (assuming you can alter the crontab on your server).
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Yes - I have considered doing the whole blog by email thing but wasn’t entirely sure how to set categories. I’ll look into WPhone though.
I like the 1984-esque rewriting of news, it makes me feel confident that Big Brother is indeed watching over me, and making sure I dont read anything bad.
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Perhaps the Beeb news changes because - well - it actually changes. More information comes along so the story becomes more accurate. Being a non-geek, or should that be ungeek, I have Beeb stories on my Google home page (along with a cute little tiger that picks flowers and has coffee, etc. throughout the day, my horoscope, and the word of the day which I endeavour to use at least once in text or speech) and I had obviously noticed that the news updates/changes. I thought that was what a news feed was all about - being current.