Tag Archives | Syndication and Feeds

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I’ve been scrambling…

…since 11/1 to come up with a replacement for Google Reader’s ability to synthesize rss feeds on the fly and have been wildly unsuccessful in my quest so far. Of all the current options, using the new delicious seems to hold the most promise. Delicious will allow me to tag ‘bookmarks’ on the fly and [...]

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The Ultimate Info Smorgasbord!

Image via CrunchBase Are you still getting email newsletters? I’m doing everything I can to eliminate them and keep my inbox for ‘just in time’ information only. Wait! Where do I get the information which was contained in those newsletters? Through newsfeeds. Here’s a post that might help you get started… “Do you have a [...]

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RSS readers in decline?

Image via CrunchBase This one really has me scratching my head… “One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news and niche topics. Many of us still use them, but less than we used to. I for one still [...]

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Information Streams Accelerating the Attention Crisis

Image via Wikipedia More people are creating more content of more types and sharing it with more connections in more places than ever before – not just text, but photos, audio and video as well. Every second of every day comes with more opportunities to be off task, distracted, and interrupted – with something new [...]

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Beyond Google Reader

Image via CrunchBase When you’ve mastered Google Reader, what do you do next? Beyond the continual process of whittling down your trusted news sources to the ones that actually deliver for you, you can also apply Yahoo! Pipes. While I’m reluctant to recommend any tool by Yahoo! [this includes Flickr, etc.] due to their uncertain [...]

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I keep telling you…

…that in order to thrive, not just survive, on the internet, you’ve got to master RSS feeds! Perhaps if someone else explains it this time, it will start to sink in… “RSS or “Really Simple Syndication” is a term used to explain how, instead of you having to chase all over the Web to find [...]

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