30 Apr, 2006

Mapping your RSS feeds to suit your customers-make the feeds as diverse as your clientele.

What's the point in bunging ALL your content into one feed? Aside from trying to please all the people all the time [and you'll fail, spectacularly] it can often mean that people get turned right off by having to sift through tons of irrelevant items, to hear about the sector/items that they ARE interested in.

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30 Apr, 2006

RSS advertising. Turns you on, or switches you off?

Will the recent movements to make adverts readily available in any RSS feed, mark the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

For me, it marks the beginning of a period which will see marketing efforts reach hitherto unscaleable heights, and that my RSS rambling rogues, makes me wistful, indeed.

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29 Apr, 2006

Adverts in RSS feeds? What doth the future hold, Nostradamus?

If I had a little Jack Russell, I'd call him or her, Nostradamus. If I had a big Jack Russell, I'd be carting it off to the circus and earning a fortune in the freak show.

What have average/over sized Jack Russells and Nostradamus got in common together?

Not much, except that the thought of both has sprung from reading a post about the future of adverts interspersed within feeds. I told you I was mad, and you wouldn't listen would you, oh no, you knew it all.

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29 Apr, 2006

Really Simple Stuff...an article worth reading about RSS...simply put, a good starting point.

I like the cut of this man's jib. He talks straight and talks clearly. I like his article on RSS and I'd gladly send any newbies there, should anybody ask about said technology. If he ever went for President of the RSS bell ringing club, I'd give him my vote. (More)

29 Apr, 2006

Is this such a surprise to you? People who read RSS feeds, do NOT provide them?

Well, if you're a web site owner, that should really shame you senseless...fancy being part of the information revolution and not practicing what you preach. Naughty girls and boys that you are, Headmaster Mike has taken it upon himself to educate you further. (More)

28 Apr, 2006

Firefox gets the Google nod, Microsoft gets the cold shoulder.

Firefox is smelling the money, honey. Google went all lovey-dovey with the Mozilla browser and ran a front page promotion on its website, Wednesday.

Is Firefox getting scared and needing a big girl behind it? [I believe in equalising the gender based participles]. IE7 beta 2 apparently is getting favourable reviews based upon its treatment of [RSS 2] feeds, which it seems to handle far better than Firefox does and provides a more pleasurable surfing experience in the way it displays and works with said feeds.

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28 Apr, 2006

Making sense of it all?

Q: Do you have to be a Brain surgeon or rocket scientist to understand what RSS, Atom etc are/is all about?

A: "No, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that way", says Professor Michael Mozart Einstein, Nobel Laureate, Brain surgeon and rocket scientist in residence, FeedFire.com.

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28 Apr, 2006

What on Earth is "Now go we in content"

I struggled with this one.

Would you, dear reader, think it was "Now we go incontinent"?

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28 Apr, 2006

OK...this new fangled thing called 'Blogging' *MAY* have something about it.

Well, I was-perhaps still am-totally reticent to jump on the bandwagon and start 'blogging'. I really thought that there was no need for it....who would want to read the incoherent and inarticulate ramblings of a 41 year old male from the UK whose physical and mental stature is very much akin to Doc Brown* from 'Back to the future'?

* The 'Doc' had slightly less mad stary eyes than I have.

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