Category Archives: Feeds (RSS)My Mediafly profile currently contains these news headline podcasts.
Yesterday I offered some tips about making news podcasts smart. Today, Contentious reader Carson commented, “You should create a public profile on Mediafly.com to allow people easy access to those feeds. Or, take their public RSS aggregated feed and put it on your blog, then people just [...]
Feed me, CarePages, feed me! You can do it!
Last week I learned that a friend’s serious illness has flared up, and she’ll need surgery and a few weeks’ recuperation. I’m very bummed about this, but I thought it was neat that she’d set up a page at CarePages.com.
I’d never heard of this service, but it [...]
Here’s what my feed reader looks like right now.
I’ve lost track of how many RSS feeds I subscribe to in my feed reader — somewhere between 100 and 200, I’m guessing. But that doesn’t matter, because despite the volume it’s surprisingly manageable and rewarding. The secret, I’ve found, is to let go of any sense [...]
Bloglines
No, my post yesterday was NOT supposed to mention Viagra extensively. My blog has been hacked. I’m working on fixing it.
UPDATE: After I posted this, Mihai Parparita brought to my attention that he’s also seeing this spam in Google Reader. (Thanks, Mihai.) So it appears my blog may have been hacked. This totally sucks, I’ll [...]
freelanceswitch.com
Freelance Switch offered great search visibility advice — for about five years ago.
The blog Freelance Switch just published an intriguing post, Getting Exposure On Search Engines, which addresses one of the most common questions freelance writers or other content producers have. Namely, how can I make myself easy to find online?” For freelancers especially this [...]
David Chief, via Flickr (CC license)
How many people use feeds? Probably a whole lot more than you think.
In my Aug. 21 post, It’s not about your site anymore, I talked about how web sites are becoming less important for online content distribution as RSS feeds (with their many uses) are enjoying increasingly mainstream usage.
Basically, the [...]
ej.msu.edu
MSU prof Dave Poulson wants to lead his students into the murky waters of online media.
(NOTE: I’m cross-posting this from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, since I thought Contentious readers might find it interesting as well.)
Today I received an intriguing query from my colleague Dave Poulson, associate director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan [...]
Amy Gahran
In your own home, you get to put the couch where YOU want it. Who cares if that’s not the living room?
Here’s another reason why learning to use a feed reader is a cornerstone skill for truly succeeding in online media today:
It’s not about your site anymore.In fact, it hasn’t been for at [...]
Feedburner
What’s the difference between feed subscribers and “reach?”
The popular service Feedburner, which manages and augments feeds (I use it for this blog), offers a wide range of measuring services to tell you how well you’re connecting with people via your feed.
One of its metrics, “Reach,” which is supposed to indicate active engagement by subscribers, was [...]
DanieVDM, via Flickr (CC license)
What makes a cornerstone skill online?
Recently I wrote about my frustration about what I perceive as low adoption rates for cornerstone skills for today’s online media — especially by people who are interested in online media.
Here’s a bit more explanation about why I think learning to use a feed reader and [...]
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