Category: Weblogs
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Read my feed for free (on the Kindle)
And more Kindle news. Earlier this month I found out my blog was available for purchase via the Kindle store. MakeUseOf.com has a post about how you can subscribe to RSS feeds on the Kindle for free using Kindlefeeder.com. Act fast though, as the following notice appears on the kindlefeeder home page: Someone has brought…
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Hot or Not Librarians
Ha! My Google rank's going to go up with a headline like that! Dave Pattern of the University of Huddersfield recently launched a new library blog-monitoring tool called HotStuff 2.0. HotStuff 2.0 monitors the RSS feeds of over 800 library related blogs, and analyzes the content in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics… …
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I’m # 51,008 in the Kindle Store!
You may recall that last year I discussed some options I was considering for commercialization of this blog. I have gotten one $25 payment from Newstex in the last year, so my content's obviously trickling out there somehow. Just got a notice that I'm now available in the Amazon Kindle store, where you can now…
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SendMeRSS / Rmail bites the dust
I missed this when it was first "announced", but apparently the first RSS to email utility that I fell in love with is no more. About a year and a half ago, NBC purchased Rmail and rebranded it as SendMeRSS. Apparently NBC just stopped supporting it; the SendMeRSS website is down, and Randy Charles Morin,…
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AideRSS – Great idea, but…
Saw a mention of AideRSS go by on Twitter the other day, and just tried it out. The idea is great – give AideRSS a blog URL and it purports to sift through all the posts and then offer separate feeds to you so you can subscribe to only the “best post” the “great”, “good”…
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2008 State of the Blogosphere Report
The timing couldn't be better as I'm updating a presentation on Blogs and RSS. Technorati has posted the 2008 State of the Blogosphere report. While changing it up each year is interesting (this year they're kinda focusing on blogger demographics and blogging for profit), I wish they'd keep the basic stats going consistently from year…
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No Frills RSS-email
Well there are no frills at all, but it’ll deliver RSS content to your email: Feed My Inbox. I like SendMeRSS and Feedburner’s solutions better.
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Google’s RSS-embedding tool
Here's a quick screencast I created to look at Google's (new?) tool that allows ordinary folks to embed RSS feeds on a website: Pretty nifty!
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David’s Favorite RSS Resources and Tools
David Rothman just posted a wonderful list of his Favorite RSS Resources and Tools. You’ll get links on explaining RSS, Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator, RSS Plugins for Outlook, Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins, RSS-to-Email tools, Publishing RSS content on Web Pages, Web-Based RSS-to-Web-Page tools, Hosted RSS-to-Web-Page Tools, Feed mashing and filtering…
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NewsGator now free
“…NewsGator also announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services.” Full press release here. Might have to give them a looksee – I seem to recall that one of our databases only allows RSS feeds to work within Newsgator –…