I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched. I’m a few days away from quitting it forever. Pretty much every blog I read tweets the titles of their posts along with a link. Better yet, the people I follow retweet their favorite links, providing a very efficient way for me to discover new articles to read and publishers to follow.
Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously dropped for days at a time, have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by companies running social networks.
Dave Winer’s ability to peer into the future is uncanny.
Earlier this month, my wife and I were thinking of what to get our daughter for her upcoming fourth birthday, and upgrading her small plastic swingset that she was outgrowing was high on our list. I had started scouting around the Web trying to find companies that did custom playground stuff that wasn’t just huge because we don’t have a ton of room in our yard. Everyone thinks bigger is better, but I was looking for smarter, for small spaces.
One major use case for RSS is promoting new content through RSS client applications, widgets, iPhone apps and so on… you see the headline and click on the content that interests you. Twitter is killing this use case for RSS.
Discussions about journalism innovation usually focus on technology: Twitter, RSS, Flash, Django, data visualization, and all the other cool stuff that’s making online news so rich. But there’s an equally important conceptual aspect of journalism innovation.
Blogging is a fast medium–that’s one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics.
There are just a few hours left in what should be an international holiday–RSS Awareness Day. Thought up by the good folks at DailyBlogTips.com and unknown until this morning to even RSS forefather Dave Winer, RSS Awareness Day is a fantastic idea. May 1 is a lot of things already but what the heck, let’s pile another one on. We’d like to take a few minutes to reflect on the world-changing tool that RSS is, and consider how different our lives would be without it.
On December 14, Google’s RSS feed reader application, Google Reader, introduced a new way for Google-defined “friends” to see your “shared” feed items. At that point, the feature caused this reporter to blow a fuse, because I realized Reader was letting competing bloggers automatically see my shared feed items.
Then, only a couple of others wondered about the move. But this past week, more fuses have been blowing, as Reader users discovered that business competitors, politically sensitive relatives, ex-lovers, and others were getting access to items that Reader users thought they were only sharing with selected confidantes.
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