David Yates: “Damn. If only there was some system which allowed you to follow updates to blogs and websites you care about in a manner that ensured you never missed an update, could find new updates at a glance, and…
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PubSubHubub: fat pings for publishers
Here’s an issue many people aren’t aware of: Does Google Reader really only poll feeds once an hour? bit.ly/RSU9Ia Bit of a fail for use on a news desk if so #journalism — John Thompson (@johncthompson) November…
Real Time Web Reality
A little while ago, I was flicking through feeds in Newsrack on my iPad. I chose to share an article via Twitter, in the application. I pressed send – and saw the Tweet pop up immediately in Seesmic Desktop II on…
Full Fat Feeds: Stuffing My RSS Reader
The one thing that I really like about printed daily newspapers – and the reason I still buy them at weekends – is the browsability of them. You can work your way through their pages and discover things that you didn’t…
How I Use Feed Subscriptions: Part 1
Dan recently asked how many RSS (or atom) feeds I subscribe to, and how I manage them. Let’s start with how many. Well, in my main subscription group, I have just shy of 400 feeds. I have two other…
Another Thought About RSS
Is a blog really a blog, if it isn’t publishing some flavour of feed, be it Atom or RSS? Or is it merely a web page with some blog-like characteristics?…
Two Thoughts on RSS
1. We really need some way to incorporate comments directly into the RSS feed (and no, doing it separately WordPress-style doesn’t cut it). 2. If you have a large number of RSS feeds in your aggregator, they really need…
Feedburner is FreeBurner
Today’s entry in the really-not-very-surprising stakes:Google Sets Feedburner Pro Free! FeedBurner, the Chicago-based feed management startup that was recently acquired by Google, has decided to offer its Pro services for free. Users can now get all the Pro…