Tag: rss
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Thoughts on Feedly, Inoreader, and RSS Readers
I love the RSS feed and think it’s one of the most powerful tools someone can use to filter and currate content on the web. It’s also one of the most undervalued and underused options. Unfortunately on March 13, 2013, Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader, stating the product had a loyal but declining…
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Your Blog's Uniqueness Rests With Your Story
What makes your blog (or Facebook page for those who don’t blog) unique, and therefore something someone else might want to read, learn from, or connect with on a personal level? I’m always looking for ways to make my blog more “authentic” more “unique” for lack of a better phrase. If you blog for any…
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Your Blog’s Uniqueness Rests With Your Story
What makes your blog (or Facebook page for those who don’t blog) unique, and therefore something someone else might want to read, learn from, or connect with on a personal level? I’m always looking for ways to make my blog more “authentic” more “unique” for lack of a better phrase. If you blog for any…
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Is Your Favorite Faith Based Blog on This List?
What are your favorite faith based blogs you read? I have a few different categories in my mind of blogs I read. I have a total list, which includes some of my friends blogs and some of my favorite faith based blogs, and more I just flip through on a daily or weekly basis. I…
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Updates and Changes to Google Reader
Google finally made some improvements to their rss feed reader, Google Reader yesterday, but, now my feeds are all messed up. Most of the changes pertain to the iPhone and the interface it uses to show the rss reader functions. Having an iPhone, I have been waiting for this for a long time, and the…
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Top 10 Stars of the Week, May 5
This is my normal weekend link love list from my starred items in my rss feed reader. There were way to many to list this week but a few stood out and I have them listed below. Thanks for a good week of reading to those below. There were to many to dial it down…
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May 1st is RSS Feed Awareness Day Get Your RSS Reader Ready
So, today seems to be deemed RSS Feed awareness day (or RSS Day) and I had been contacted several times about trying to do a quick post on rss (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. It seems that many people are unaware of the importance, or usefulness of an rss feed, so now is your chance to…
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Top 10 Stars of the Week, April 28
I am going to try to get back to doing this post once a week like I use to do, but for now, here is the latest version of this past weeks starred items from my Google Reader. A complete list is shown on the sidebar to the far right, but these are some posts…
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Merry Christmas to Everyone on the Top 15 List
I am replacing my normal Monday morning top 15 list with a holiday greeting for everyone this week. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. I have taken some time off writing, as many of the bloggers have, and I am getting ready to gear up for next year. There have been…
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Add Value to a Blog by Offering an RSS Feed in Reverse
How many feeds to you have in your reader? All of them, right. I just hit the 300+ mark this week and counting, so I don’t quite have all of them yet, but I am working on it. Have you ever subscribed to what someone else is reading instead of what someone else is writing?…
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Top 15 Stars of the Week, October 29
Looking back over this past week, it was overwhelmingly dominated by posts on the Page Rank update. It seems everyone found some way to be touched by this in one way or the other, even if it was just to read the rantings and ravings about Google’s Page Rank update. Especially over the weekend when…
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Find New Blogs Using RSS Search Feeds Readers
I have read several blog posts here and there that suggest that there aren’t many good ham radio blogs (or insert specific topic here), and certainly not many that are updated very frequently. This may be the case, the old 80%/20% rule where 80% of the blogs on the Internet are just junk not worth…