January 25th, 2007
Those of you who signed up with a Yahoo address may not be getting the A Feed Is Born newspaper. I have been seeing a lot a delivery failure notices and they are all Yahoo addresses.
I’ve noticed other sites that have sign-ups tell people not to use a Yahoo address so I guess I’ll […]
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January 24th, 2007
I’m really liking Open Culture. Lots of interesting stuff there. But yesterday they compiled a list of cool podcasts that aren’t available through their RSS feed. Here’s what they say:
The only downside to using a feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, MyYahoo, etc.) to access Open Culture is that you won’t be able to see our […]
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January 23rd, 2007
Do any of you use Google as your home page? If so, did you notice the quiet change they made this morning? Michael and Scott over at Monkey Bites did and here’s what they have to say:
Google quietly updated the RSS widgets on the Google Personalized Homepage this morning. Rather than simple headline links, there’s […]
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January 23rd, 2007
ITNews Australia reports that RSS for checking blogs still hasn’t caught on.
HitWise researcher LeeAnn Prescott said a comparison of traffic to online newsreaders and the Web’s most popular blogs indicates that only early adopters are using the newsreaders.
The typical US Internet user has yet to adopt Web-based newsreaders for checking blogs, a Web metrics firm […]
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January 22nd, 2007
Ok - the syndication war has gone too far. Just stop it!
One person was killed and three were wounded when police opened fire to quell communal violence during a RSS function…
Thankfully this news item has nothing to do with syndication. ;-)
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January 22nd, 2007
A Pew report, published the other day, says more people are relying on the internet to get their news - particularly political news.
Here’s an interesting quote:
Among those under 36 years old, 35% said the Internet was their main source of political news during the 2006 campaign while only 18% primarily relied on newspapers.
The Pew report […]
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January 21st, 2007
Finally - the long anticipated launch of the b5 public forums is here. Here’s what the announcement says:
The forums now have a publicly accessible area. As with our original forums, the goal here is to listen, answer questions, and allow outsiders a minor view into the fantastic community that actually makes all the magic […]
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January 20th, 2007
You can get A Feed Is Born delivered daily to your inbox by Simply Headlines. This is your own newspaper - you can change the features you receive and the order of the paper. This is so cool - I read mine every morning while I drink my coffee!
Sign up for the “A […]
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January 19th, 2007
A few days ago I wrote about SpinVox in the US and the fact that TechCrunch had some free invitations if you were among the first 100 to ask for it. TechCrunch asked for people to leave their e-mail address for the free offer.
Everyone knows that it is dangerous to post an e-mail address […]
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January 19th, 2007
Fox News is offering a news feed served to your cell phone. “The live feed will be available 24/7 by dialing “#FOXN” on a mobile phone. The service, which will start with Cingular, costs $2.99 a month plus applicable per-minute airtime charges.”
Reuters further reports: “It’s far from the first mobile deal for Fox News. There […]
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