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August 16th, 2007

Excellent Introduction to RSS

Last month I posted a series on Favorite Feed Readers - including specifically NewsgatorOnline, Bloglines, BlogBridge, Google Reader and FeedDemon.
For those who haven’t even got to having a favorite feed reader or perhaps even knowing what a feed reader is, I recommend Martin Neumann’s excellent new Beginners’ Guide to RSS. He kindly references my […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

July 11th, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 5 - FeedDemon

The fifth and final news reader to be included in this series of 5 favorite readers, FeedDemon, is no newcomer to the scene and has some great features.
Each of the other readers in the series - NewsGator Online, BlogBridge Desktop, Bloglines, Google Reader - is free. For FeedDemon there is a modest charge of […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

July 2nd, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 4 - Google Reader

Google Reader is definitely easy to use, just like Gmail, which is another Google product I use a lot (yes, as well as that search one).
And while I know that with each of Gmail and Google Reader, there is a very rational system used for organising and displaying the information, I don’t find it as […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

June 30th, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 3 - Bloglines

The Bloglines feed reader used to be my reader of choice.
I haven’t been using Bloglines for a while now, since discovering the two readers reviewed so far in this series, NewsGator Online and BlogBridge. I don’t recall actually doing a detailed comparison, but one disincentive for not continuing to use Bloglines was that for […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

June 30th, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 2 - BlogBridge

BlogBridge offers itself as more than a feed aggregator, styling itself as “the ultimate info-junkie system”.
BlogBridge project leader Pito Salas and his team describe themselves as “a bunch of entrepreneurs / enthusiasts who enjoy living at the edge of technology and social behavior.”
Unlike some other popular feed readers, such as NewsGator Online which was reviewed […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

June 30th, 2007

5 Favorite Feed Readers: 1 - NewsGator Online

In this short series on my five favorite news readers, I’m listing NewsGator Online first, not because it’s my daily default reader, which it isn’t, but because it is:

excellent in its layout and usability
a web service, so there is no download required (good for travel)
the reader which served me best for quite a long time
a […]

By Des Walsh -- 12 comments

June 8th, 2007

Keep Up with Your RSS Feeds or Miss the Drinks

Here’s a reason for making sure you set up - and read regularly - RSS feeds for blogs you are interested in: so you don’t miss the drinks.
The thought was prompted by a throwaway by Ross Dawson, speaking at his very successful event in Sydney during the week - Web 2.0 in Australia - when […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2007

Really Simple Explanation of RSS, with Pictures

Lee LeFever has provided a very neat explanation of RSS, with pictures, in his Video: RSS in Plain English.
Elegant and entertaining.
He gives some examples of readers. I would be adding BlogBridge.
This video link is one to send to your friend or family member who could benefit from RSS, especially if his or her eyes glazed […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

April 24th, 2007

Interactive Webinar on Search with John Battelle

My post yesterday on feeds was triggered by an invitation I had received to a webinar with John Battelle.
The event is billed as: Search as the next interface - a conversation with John Battelle.
John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, author and currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing. He writes lucidly, […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

April 23rd, 2007

Why “More” Can be Less in a WordPress Feed

From time to time I notice in one of my RSS feed readers a post or two on the general topic of full feeds vs. excerpts. It’s been on my list of Things I Must Get Around to Understanding Better.
Some bloggers like to syndicate only a partial feed, or excerpt, not the whole article or […]

By Des Walsh -- 12 comments