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October 28, 2008
If the bread slicer was a recent invention, I imagine a conversation like this would take place somewhere in the world: Guy #1: "Dude, you have to try sliced bread." Guy #2: "Why would I need that? I can slice...
June 3, 2008
Don't try this at home. I bumped up my Google Reader subscriptions last night from around 350 to 7570 for a work project. Fortunately, the blogs are very low volume so the increase in blog consumption wouldn't be that significant....
February 27, 2008
I'm no prude, but the idea of speaking at a seminar about RSS only to have a post about Silicon Valley escort services pop up in my Google Reader doesn't turn me on. For that reason, I whipped together a...
December 9, 2007
As much as I HATE truncated RSS feeds, there are a few blogs with content that's SO exceptional that I'm almost willing to put up with truncation. For those of you who don't know what the heck that first sentence...
November 8, 2007
I've noticed a spike in hits to our RSS feed from a site called Cullect.com and decided to do some investigating. Here's a shot of the site's "Welcome" page: That raises a question for me: if the site is pulling...
November 4, 2007
FeedBurner stats across the web took a nose dive today. For example, this site dropped from around 2700 to 1665 subscribers overnight. Zoli Erdos did some digging and got to the bottom of it. For some reason, subscriber counts from...
October 26, 2007
Reggie Nicolay at Technology for Real Estate has an interesting post title about how Yahoo Pipes could be used to refine real estate search. The post itself does more to explain Yahoo Pipes than how it could be applied to...
October 15, 2007
While many bloggers, including Technology Evangelist, publish their RSS feed subscribers on their blog, not all do. So that made Sunday's news about Google publishing subscriber counts within their network particularly interesting. While this doesn't represent the total subscribers to...
September 25, 2007
I'm looking for some help understanding the benefits of both RSS and Atom from a blog publishing perspective. From what I can tell, there is little difference between the two syndication formats when it comes to syndicating text or text...
September 17, 2007
Should social networking sites make it easy to import updates from other social networking sites? Yes and no. On the Yes side, it makes it easy to consolidate one's social network updates from your blog, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, etc. On...
September 15, 2007
Steve Rubel Twittered last night saying: Checking out blognation. Like it but wish I could subscribe to individual bloggers. http://us.blognation.com/ He raises a great point. It can be annoying on multi-author blogs to have to read everything when you're only...
August 28, 2007
I’m one of those really strange people who hates the status quo. If I become comfortable with a system or product then it’s time to change it up, stop using it or find an alternative. There are always ways to...
August 20, 2007
I don't know if Yahoo Pipes has gained much traction since launching, but I do know that I find the service useful. For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a relatively easy to use platform for creating RSS feed...
July 30, 2007
There were some great comments in Saturday's post regarding the preference Firefox together with a Google Reader has for Atom over RSS feeds. I'll highlight a few below with comments. MKR pointed out that I would be presented with an...
July 28, 2007
I was subscribing to a few new blogs this evening when I noticed something strange with the way FireFox together with Google handled the subscription options. Rather than giving me the option of subscribing to the RSS 2.0, RSS 0.92,...
July 26, 2007
This finally dawned on me while discussing RSS readers with a guy I met at a bar earlier this week: RSS is most valuable for infrequently updated RSS feeds. Why? Do you really need an RSS feed to send you...
July 23, 2007
Dear media sites: I am so tired of truncated RSS feeds. Why do you continue to work under the assumption that you're better off forcing people to click through to read blog posts or news stories rather than allowing them...
April 25, 2007
CommonCraft has created an interesting video explaining what RSS is all about in less than 4 minutes. If you're an RSS user who tries explaining the benefits of RSS to others, or someone who hasn't used an RSS reader yet,...
Continue reading "RSS in Plain English - Interesting Video" »
February 27, 2007
A reader wrote in with a few interesting iTunes questions I thought I'd throw out to the group. I'll take a shot at the questions, but would appreciate some additional takes. 1. There are at least three computers that I...
February 26, 2007
Having a variety of tech perspectives on this site is both a blessing and a curse. It's great to have a variety of points of view, although our readers may not be interested in every one of them. If you're...
February 11, 2007
Back in October, I wrote that Bloglines Still Beats Google Reader Today. It's time to update that statement. I've now made the switch to Google Reader. Google Reader has gotten better in terms of speed and interface. Some of my...
January 23, 2007
The folks running the Hitwise blog continues to crank out interesting peeks into the data they collect. This time, LeeAnn Prescott takes a look at the market share of RSS feed aggregators, including Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Netvibes and Google Reader:...
October 24, 2006
Email is not the most appropriate medium for newsletters. They clog up my inbox making it harder to find important messages, are too hard to scan, are impossible to link to, and should be set aside for an appropriate time...
October 19, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 has launched and the reviews are starting to come in. One big change in IE 7 is better integration of RSS feeds. I'm not entirely sold on the concept of being tied to a browser for RSS...
October 14, 2006
Here's a Bloglines RSS issue I haven't been able to figure out. Why can't Bloglines find the RSS feed for this site: http://www.free-seo-news.com/weekly-search-engine-facts.htm It's located at: http://www.free-seo-news.com/rss.xml Just like the source code says it is: FireFox can find it and...
October 10, 2006
Google Reader has a pretty easy to follow explanation of what an RSS aggregator is in the intro video to their tool. Robert Scoble recently berated Google for not making better use of video to help promote and explain the...
October 9, 2006
Gina Trapani has posted a thorough breakdown of what makes Google Reader superior to Bloglines at LifeHacker. It's a must-read if you're a current Bloglines user and thinking of switching, or someone who hasn't used a web based RSS reader...
October 1, 2006
FeedMailer is a new RSS to email service that will create email digests of blogs and other sites you subscribe to. As I understand it, FeedMailer will send you ONE email with all of your new feed content rather than...
July 31, 2006
Feedburner's BuzzBoost feature allows you to syndicate blog headlines onto web sites using a simple JavaScript code snippet. Pasting the BuzzBoost code into your site's template will create a new Headlines section with the latest posts from the blog of your choice.
July 2, 2006
There is no more powerful form of marketing than an endorsement from one of your current customers to their friends and colleagues. When people share their thoughts about your product or service with people in their network, they're creating impressions many times more powerful than any ad you could run. Given that, anything that enables such endorsements will likely pay dividends for your company.
June 6, 2006
Michael Arrington reported yesterday on the launch of a new service that tracks the relationship status of your MySpace friends called SingleStat.us.
June 1, 2006
Ask.com launched a new blog search site today that takes an entirely new approach to determining authority: Bloglines circulation.
May 30, 2006
The thing I like most about traditional web search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN is that they ask very little of me as a content creator. All I have to do is make my web site easy for to crawl by their search engine spiders. The beauty of this is that it's a fairly easy thing to do, and I don't have to change a thing if additional search engines are launched. New search engines can index my site's content and display results from my site without any additional work on my part.
May 22, 2006
We launched the Technology Evangelist blog six months ago this past Friday, and have learned a lot about blogging over the past 180+ days. Here are a ten things we learned and/or wish we knew before we started:
May 8, 2006
Steve Rubel posted earlier today about the
problem
with blog plagiarism and the role full-text RSS feeds can play in this
annoyance. Rubel posits that full-text feeds may eventually die off due to the
ease of republishing them to plagiarist's sites.
March 29, 2006
Once you find an online news site you like, how do you keep up to date with that site's content? Personally, I tend to use a process that goes something like this:
1. Type in the address (with autocomplete) to get back to the site.
2. Bookmark the site once I find myself going back regularly.
3. Subscribe to the site in order to bring the content to me rather than checking in for new content.
March 17, 2006
The following is a list of current technology stories that I find interesting but haven't had a chance to write about yet. If you happen to be familiar with any of the concepts listed below and would like to contribute some thoughts on your experiences, please contact me using the options listed on my bio page or post a comment in the comments field below.
March 15, 2006
I ran across an application recently that will change the world. I see massive media networks like NBC, CBC, BBC and others all stand by and watch as their business models are blown to bits. Everything we know about television, radio and media in general will be re-imagined. As Jeff Jarvis recently posted quoting Rupert Murdoch, "A new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it." I'm throwing my hat in the ring and screaming to the world "it’s time, the revolution is here!" So what is this hot app? What will change the world?? What could make such a huge dent in the traditional media universe??? It’s simple -- Democracy.
March 13, 2006
Our next interview in 'The Innovators' series is with Mr. Frank Gruber. Frank is a hardcore blogger who gives us some fantastic tips on everything from how to start a blog, as well as how to monetize, advertise and get...
February 13, 2006
If you publish regular posts to a blog or news site, you're probably interested in tracking whether anyone's reading it, right? You've probably added a stats program to your site so you can find out how many visitors your site is receiving and what they're looking at. But how do you track subscribers to your site's RSS feed?
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