‘Bout time to reply again (cont’d)

June 19th, 2004 · No Comments · Content management, Inspiration, Lessons

Mike Padula is a Cornell student who analyzed blogging at Microsoft as part of his course work: Proposal, Introduction, Blog What? Part 1, Blog What? Part 2, Blog What? That’s What, Typical Features of a Blog and Their Use, Interesting Developments, Expanding on Interesting Developments, Where Has This Gone?, Comments About This Process, References and Edit: More Information. Dare, one of Mike’s subject examples, offers some addition background. Joshua Allen, one of Dare’s references, continues recounting this particular history.
Lenn Pryor tries to boil down the essence of blogs in search of their uniqueness.
To have full content in a feed or not to have it, that is the question (and clarification). I much prefer feeds with full content. For one thing they enable offline reviews and thinking.
Alex Barnett moves away from pitting RSS against email toward including RSS in the marketing mix (i.e. additive). Ed Brill weighs in on the Email vs. RSS conversation, too.
Red Herring comments on Bill Gates’ blog comments in a speech to CEOs. Dare considered submitting a Think Week paper for Bill Gates on his thoughts about the current and future trends in social software, blogging and syndication. Apparently someone else did so.
Joshua Allen says down with orangle XML icons. Essentially: For RSS to be truly mainstream, subscribing to a web page needs to be a simple as printing.
Think of RSS readers as tools to enable speed reading of the ‘net.
Dare speaks out concerning: blog disclaimers, common misconceptions about RSS, RDF as a more extensible XML, competing with commercial aggregators and news aggregators as denial of service clients.
Scoble: RSS advertising? Business opportunity?
With software like NewsAloud, RSS feeds are becoming more accessible (e.g. to visually impaired persons). Think about the opportunities to convey your important messages.