Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘RSS’

Top 10 Twitter DOs and DON’Ts

You’ve got a blog. You’ve got email, SMS, and IM. These are great tools for communication. Email and text messaging are two-way conversations. Blogging is mostly a one-to-many conversation. But what about something in-between? Twitter is part micro-blog, part instant message, and can fill the need for short public and personal broadcasts.
If you’ve been thinking [...]

Join Me On Twitter!

Are you on Twitter yet? Join me, won’t you?
If you don’t know what Twitter is, it’s basically a social micro-blog to update your friends on what you’re doing right now. What makes it different from a blog you might already publish is the use of text messaging to update your personal Twitter page while you’re [...]

Google’s Duplicate Content Filter And Your FeedBurner Feed - What You Should Know

It seems that with the infiltration of spam sites and splogs into Google’s search index, they came up with a duplicate content filter to solve this problem. These spam sites use automated tools to scrape content from other websites with the hopes of creating keyword dense pages that rank high in the search engines and [...]

The Easiest Way To Get News On All Your Favorite Musicians

Web site earFeeder scans your computer’s music library and creates a customized RSS feed for your newsreader with news related to the artists in your music library.

Think Your Senators Work For You?

Here’s how to hold them accountable. RSS feeds for all senators votes.
Checks and balances with technology. Absolutely brilliant! read more.

The Problem With Summary Feeds

You’d better have a good headline or I’m not going to visit your site. And if I do visit your site but the rest of the article isn’t as good as the headline, then you’ve lost me. I’ll only make that mistake once and then I’ll probably unsubscribe.
Best practice is to provide full feeds and [...]

Men’s Health Rocks!

I’ve been reading Men’s Health off and on for many years now. But when you add their RSS feed to the mix, look out!
BTW, it’s strange that I haven’t posted about fitness until now. Or is it?
The reason I say it’s strange is because it’s such a big part of my life. I have a [...]

It’s Not So Bad

Climatecrisis.net has RSS! Feedburner no less. Pretty impressive guys.
And their ten things to do pdf is completely doable. In fact, I do some of them now and can easily do a lot more.
Phew. Maybe there is hope after all.
Seriously. Go see An Inconvenient Truth tonight.

Check Your Feedblitz Syndication

If you’re using Feedblitz to syndicate your feed via email, make sure you are subscribed to your own feed. For some reason Feedblitz choked on me for a couple of days. Nothing seemed to be wrong. Green lights all the way. But it choked anyway. And my subscribers missed what I thought was my best [...]

Ken Wilber Is Blogging…Kind Of

There’s no RSS, but it’s a damn good–and sexy–start.
KenWilber.com

Flamers Threaten The State Of The Blogosphere

A nasty war has been flaming around Dave Winer. It’s sad to watch. I have to admit that since I’ve been reading Dave’s blog for a long time now, I find he has a neurotic attachment to being the victim from time to time. He is only human. It’s nothing a little 3–2–1 couldn’t fix. [...]

The Long Tail

From Anything but business as usual:
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, coined “The Long Tail“: A theory based on “the world of abundance” where instead of being obsessed with the head of the tail–the 20 percent of products that are hits–it’s the remaining 80% (which actually goes on forever) where the biggest money lies.
Main point: [...]

Naked Conversations

A couple of weeks ago I finished reading the book, Naked Conversations, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. It continues the ideas set forth in The Cluetrain Manifesto that marketing is a conversation. But more importantly, it deals with how that conversation is flourishing through business blogging. The book doesn’t deal with music industry blogging [...]

What is RSS and Why Do I Care?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). So instead of having to go visit each and every website to read the latest content, you can use [...]

Coolfer: Rolling Stone on 2005: “The Worst Year Ever”

Coolfer: Rolling Stone on 2005: “The Worst Year Ever”:
Album sales have dropped 21% since 2000 but sales of digital tracks rose to 353 million from 141 million in 2004, and sales of digital albums rose to 16.2 million from 5.5 million last year.
The time is ripe for podcasting and using RSS to distribute your music. [...]

No Mr. Ballmer, You Cannot Have the Web

RSS made it possible for everyone to participate in publishing on equal technological footing with NYT.
Specifically for musicians, blogging and podcasting make it possible for musicians to participate in music publishing on better technological footing than the major labels.
The kicking-and-screaming RIAA is clinging to CDs while digital delivery of music via P2P is winning the [...]