Tag "rss"
Is Blogging Really on the Decline?
Blogging An article on Mashable today discussed a study by Pew Internet that broke down the online activities by age groups, starting with as young as 18 and working up to 74+. Many of the results were not surprising. Email was an almost uniform activity across every age group, as were searching and getting news online. Also, younger individuals were more likely to play games online, IM and use social networks while their slightly older cohorts were more ...
Continue readingDressing Up Google Reader With Feed Squares – Review
Reviews It’s no secret that I’m a Feedly fan and have been for a long time. All the same, when I found out that there was a new Google Reader interface called FeedSquares (available for Android and Chrome), I decided to give it a spin. I installed the Chrome version. First Impressions Once I installed the extension and clicked on the icon, I got a nice bunch of colored squares representing my feeds from Google Reader. I assumed that the ...
Continue readingView Your Social World on One Page with Spindex
Social Media When I first visited the Spindex homepage, there was no explanation of the service, so I had no idea was it was about. As a matter of fact, besides the words “Spindex” and “Sign In”, there’s no other text on the page. So I was a bit leery about requesting an invite but it didn’t take long for me to see what was behind the mysterious homepage. Spindex is “your one stop shop for searchable access to your ...
Continue readingHow do You “Subscribe” to a Site?
Blogging Before we begin, a very quick thought exercise: What do you think of when I say “Subscribe To This Blog”? The reason I ask is simple. When I first started blogging heavily, “subscribing” to a site meant simply one thing, taking the RSS feed of a site and reading it in an RSS reader. It might have been a software RSS reader or a Web-based one, such as Google Reader, but the process was the same. The only exception was a ...
Continue reading5 Tips for Using WordPress for Non-Blog Sites
WordPress When I needed to create a site for my new consulting firm, I immediately turned to WordPress as my CMS of choice. Not only is it the CMS I am most familiar with, but because it is flexible enough to get the job done with a minimal amount of keyboard-pounding. Though WordPress is known as being a blog platform, as the Squeeze Theme shows, it can be used for much, much more. However, that doesn’t mean that all of the pieces fit neatly ...
Continue reading4 Tips to Keep Your Feeds Safe(r) from Copying
Blogging Earlier today, Sharon posted an article that asks a simple, but profound question, Should you really unlink your feeds?. The idea comes from Tim Maly who makes the compelling case that combining all of your content into one feed is disruptive to yourself, your friends and your readers. One of the major reasons is that it results in your content being duplicated all over the Web as search engines pick up both your source content and the feeds ...
Continue readingShould You Really Unlink Your Feeds?
Blogging One of the posts that made me think in the past week was called Unlink your feeds. It is a manifesto by Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon which calls for us to “stop automatically dumping [our] feeds from one account into another.” This is contrary to the way many of us choose to operate. When I started blogging the best advice was to spread your feed around and have it appear absolutely everywhere. When lifestreaming services started ...
Continue readingMake them Subscribe: 6 Tips to Build Subscriptions
Blogging As much as we all love visitors to our site and watching our Google Analytics tick up, RSS subscribers, for most blogs, are more valuable. Not only are they some of your more frequent visitors, thus helping with your aforementioned traffic, but they are also your best community members, leaving the most comments and adding the most to your site. Where a non-subscriber may visit your site once, once a week or whenever they remember to check out ...
Continue readingRebadge Your Blog Content With Zinepal
Blogging If you’re looking for a way to rebadge your blog content, one of the best new tools around now is Zinepal. Amazingly, its creators are marketing the tool to busy and mobile readers, editors and journalists and special interest groups, but I think they’re missing a trick by not targeting blog publishers. Let me tell you how it works and you can judge for yourself. Collect Your Content Zinepal allows you to collect content from web ...
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The Time-Strapped Blogger’s Guide to Self-Promotion
Promote your blog Life isn’t meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you’re at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream. Photo by Jen Dixon After all, you’re not famous, you’re not some superstar a-list blogger whose readers wait in agonizing ...
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