Reader Henrik writes: Twitter is great for discovering new and interesting things, but for consistently good sources of information, nothing beats RSS….
It's been a while since I've updated you on my Signal newsletter, which I do each day. Here's the last week or so of them. If you want to read it in RSS, here's the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/FederatedMediaSignalBlog Tues. Signal: Does Your Media Have an Address? Monday Signal: Clearly, It’s…
It’s been a while since I’ve updated you on my Signal newsletter, which I do each day. Here’s the last week or so of them. If you want to read it in RSS, here’s the feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FederatedMediaSignalBlog
Read MoreHere's one for you, folks: A few folks "in the know" told me that a company is thinking about doing something with another company, but that second company has no idea about it, and in order for the whole thing to play out, a whole lot of things need to…
Here’s one for you, folks: A few folks “in the know” told me that a company is thinking about doing something with another company, but that second company has no idea about it, and in order for the whole thing to play out, a whole lot of things need to happen first, most of which are totally dependent on other things happening over which the sources have no control!
Great story, eh?
Well, that’s the entire content of this Reuters story about AOL, one that has gotten a lot of play (including a spot on tech leaderboard TechMeme).
Read MoreYesterday I posted what was pretty much an offhand question – Is RSS Dead? I had been working on the FM Signal, a roundup of the day's news I post over at the FM Blog. A big part of editing that daily roundup is spent staring into my RSS reader,…
Yesterday I posted what was pretty much an offhand question – Is RSS Dead? I had been working on the FM Signal, a roundup of the day’s news I post over at the FM Blog. A big part of editing that daily roundup is spent staring into my RSS reader, which culls about 100 or so feeds for me.
I realized I’ve been staring into an RSS reader for the better part of a decade now, and I recalled the various posts I’d recently seen (yes, via my RSS reader) about the death of RSS. Like this one, and this one, and even this one, from way back in 2006. All claimed RSS was over, and, for the most part, that Twitter killed it.
I wondered to myself – am I a dinosaur? I looked at Searchblog’s RSS counter, which has been steadily growing month after month, and realized it was well over 200,000 (yesterday it added 4K folks, from 207K to 211K). Are those folks all zombies or spam robots? I mean, why is it growing? Is the RSS-reading audience really out there?
Read MoreI'm usually the last guy to know, and the first to admit it, but is RSS really dead? I keep seeing posts claiming Twitter and Facebook have essentially replaced RSS as the way folks filter their news these days, but I for one am still addicted to my RSS client…
‘m usually the last guy to know, and the first to admit it, but is RSS really dead? I keep seeing posts claiming Twitter and Facebook have essentially replaced RSS as the way folks filter their news these days, but I for one am still addicted to my RSS client (it’s Shrook, for anyone who still cares).
Perhaps RSS isn’t dead, but instead it’s professionalizing. It’s the Beta to the VHS of Twitter. Higher quality, better signal, but more expensive in terms of time, and used only by folks “in the industry.”
I write, every single day (especially with Signal), and I consume a lot of feeds in order to do that. I need a professional tool that lets me do that efficiently, and so far nothing beats an RSS reader. But I’m serious about my feeds, and most folks, I guess aren’t.
Read MoreYesterday's post on Google having an algorithmic "opinion" about which reviews were negative or positive sparked a thoughtful response from Matt Cutts, Google's point person on search quality, and for me raised a larger question about Google's past, present, and future. In his initial comment (which is *his* opinion, not…
Yesterday’s post on Google having an algorithmic “opinion” about which reviews were negative or positive sparked a thoughtful response from Matt Cutts, Google’s point person on search quality, and for me raised a larger question about Google’s past, present, and future.
In his initial comment (which is *his* opinion, not Google’s, I am sure), Cutts remarked:
“…the “opinion” in that sentence refers to the fact our web search results are protected speech in the First Amendment sense. Court cases in the U.S. (search for SearchKing or Kinderstart) have ruled that Google’s search results are opinion. This particular situation serves to demonstrate that fact: Google decided to write an algorithm to tackle the issue reported in the New York Times. We chose which signals to incorporate and how to blend them. Ultimately, although the results that emerge from that process are algorithmic, I would absolutely defend that they’re also our opinion as well, not some mathematically objective truth.”
Read MoreAlmost immediately after the Web 2.0 Summit last month, Tim O'Reilly and I sat down at an FM event and debriefed each other on what we learned. Here's the video….
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1
Wow, I've never seen this before. Check out Google's post, responding to the New York Times story about a bad actor who had figured out a way to make a living leveraging what he saw as holes in Google's approach to ranking. How Google ranks is the subject of…
Wow, I’ve never seen this before. Check out Google’s post, responding to the New York Times story about a bad actor who had figured out a way to make a living leveraging what he saw as holes in Google’s approach to ranking.
How Google ranks is the subject of increasing scrutiny, including and particularly in Europe.
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