Upgrading our RSS feed. The Guardian (UK) is now offering full rss feeds:

Second, advertising will soon appear within each full content feed item. Ads won't appear in the items which we display only as summaries.

That was not so well received. Some commenters want summaries -- feeds as a way to know what's new, and to navigate to the site if something interests them. There's a call for choice.

YouTube gets specific: Finally, when you want to point out the good parts of YouTube videos, you no longer have to say, "The good part comes at 1:45." You can now add the time marker right into the link.

It's a little geeky, but if you just plug in the minutes and seconds, you can ignore the rest of the code.

Here's an example. This poetry reading comes with the comment, "Intro lasts one minute." Lets' skip that part, which is actually 59 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0yJAvc0JA#t=59s

How to: Play a video, and note the spot you want to begin playing -- the exact number of minutes and seconds.

-- Copy the link to a video, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0yJAvc0JA
Append the following code to the end of this link, with the minutes and seconds filled in:

t=2m12s

(Think of it as an abbreviation for "time=? minutes ?seconds)

If there are no minutes involved, as in my example, just leave that part out.