The Piling Up of Media: Super-Users and Grazers

Every day, media is thrust into my life: Two newspapers on the driveway. Magazines in the mailbox… more than 10 subscriptions. RSS feeds in my RSS reader… about 100 subscriptions. This is before I look at my Blackberry, open Instant Messenger, surf a single website, think about the book on my nightstand, or even fathom… Continue reading The Piling Up of Media: Super-Users and Grazers

Write Once, Publish Anywhere and Everywhere

Fred Wilson has some interesting thoughts on how feeds and widgets play into the online publishing model: “One of the biggest changes out there is the world of distributed media. Feeds, widgets, embed codes, apis, and other tools that allow the publisher to make their content available on other pages. You have to do this,… Continue reading Write Once, Publish Anywhere and Everywhere

The State of the RSS Feed Market

Feedburner shares their view of the RSS feed market. With 604,533 feeds on behalf of 347,000 bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers – they get a sense of the community like few others. “Audience engagement, which is to say, people reading feeds and people clicking on feeds – is how we’ve increasingly been interpreting feed subscription… Continue reading The State of the RSS Feed Market

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The Case for RSS

Sue Polinsky at DownloadSquad offers a compelling argument for and 101 overview of RSS feeds and readers. Personally, my RSS reader is my lifeline to keeping up with news online. With so many content streams and topics to stay on top of – it is a simple and powerful way to break into the information… Continue reading The Case for RSS

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Analyzing Your Reading Habits

Google enveiled an interesting feature to its RSS reader. It allows you to analyze your reading habits, if you use their RSS service. Matt Cutts shows an example of his habits – which feeds he reads most and when. This already seems to be fueling a war for bragging rights: “I’ve read 2000+ blog posts… Continue reading Analyzing Your Reading Habits

The Year of User-Generated Content & Web 2.0

In case anyone missed the past year, the reflections are starting to pour in. Read/Write Web has a great overview on the state of the online world, covering topics such as: Social networks RSS Web 2.0 Google VC money Localization Widgets Online video Blogs …and so much more. I was surprised the word “aggregation” didn’t… Continue reading The Year of User-Generated Content & Web 2.0

The Year of User-Generated Content & Web 2.0

In case anyone missed the past year, the reflections are starting to pour in. Read/Write Web has a great overview on the state of the online world, covering topics such as: Social networks RSS Web 2.0 Google VC money Localization Widgets Online video Blogs …and so much more. I was surprised the word “aggregation” didn’t… Continue reading The Year of User-Generated Content & Web 2.0

Widgets to Explode RSS Adoption?

Steve Rubel explores what “widgets” are and how “they will drive the adoption of RSS without the user needing to know what the heck a feed is.”