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A Feed Is Born

Archive for the ‘Me, myself and RSS’ Category

March 10th, 2008

Do you subscribe to your own feed?

Recently, a friend of mine had problems with his blog. He went about his daily routine blogging about this and that topic, which interests him. Often putting what he perceived as witty comments and some of them really are about life in general. Unfortunately, for him his blog was compromised and porn links began […]

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March 4th, 2008

Bombarding friends and enemies with photos

Just finished a trip to Angkor Wat with friends. One of the drawbacks or fun, depending on how you look at things, is that there will always be a river of photos or snaps taken from the trip. There is a way of showing friends and love one pictures as the trip progresses. One way […]

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January 26th, 2008

Will RSS replace Email?

This is an interesting question with the advantages RSS brings - like syndication of content and being relatively spam free - will it ever replace email? Will it be so successful that it will banish online and desktop based email readers? Yes and no.

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January 20th, 2008

What are you?

In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel one of the more famous stories was his visit to Lilliput. And one of the side stories was the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu. A war started because of a dispute between which side of a boiled egg should be cracked. So it was a war between Big-endians and Little-endians.
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January 17th, 2008

More than one way to tag an RSS Feed

The actual phrase is there is more than one way to skin a cat. People who study word and phrase origins have several explanations on the origins of this phrase - the explanation ranges from preparation of a catfish; something to do with gymnastics and exercises; and of course the actual removal of the hide […]

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January 5th, 2008

Visiting DailyLit and a return to reading

Bibliophiles and human RSS readers its time to revisit DailyLit and ask the proverbial question, “What’s Up Doc?”
I has been more than five months since we visited the DailyLit the service that offers books delivered by installment via RSS and email. We covered their basic services a few months ago in this post.

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December 9th, 2007

What type of truncated feed would you read?

Technology Evangelist talks about how some blogs or sites are worth reading even if they do not have full feeds or are truncated. As I written before and I still maintain that I like reading the full text articles or pots on my feed reader. No more hassle of going to the website. Although there […]

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December 6th, 2007

A Podsafe Christmas

Here is an interesting RSS feed for the coming Christmas Season the 2007 edition. Here in my country the malls have been playing Christmas tunes since November 1 - I know I know. Anyway if you are one of those looking for Christmas Songs and alternative renditions of the standard Christmas songs you might want […]

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November 14th, 2007

Living without RSS is fatal

For blogs and websites it is fatal. I have to apologize to the subscribers of A Feed Is Born for a few days our RSS feed was down and as a result subscribers could not get the latest post, which is probably good and bad depending on the nature and content of the post. Fortunately, […]

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November 10th, 2007

A Feed Is Born podcast: Whine, Wine and Wai Wai

Wednesday after watching weird wild stuff on the World Wide Web at the witching hour Jayvee (Cellphone9) and I talked about rss and things like cabbages and kings. Oh well you knew the story. For less than an hour we talked about RSS. Atom, the dark and bright side of RSS and feeds. A product […]

 
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