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How I Keep Track of My Comments on Other Web Sites and Blogs

The page on this blog My Comments Elsewhere displays a list of links to bookmarks from my del.icio.us account I have tagged using the term “comments.” Recently Kathie Thomas, a member of the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups that I co-moderate, asked how I generated this page. Here’s how.

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Posted on Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 09:04AM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Using Faviki to Bookmark "Technological Literacy" Items

I’m using the Faviki bookmarking service to manage bookmarks related to my “technological literacy” research.

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Is RSS a Victim of its own Success?

At last night’s Meeting VI of the Alexandria Web Strategy Discussion Group, convened at New Target in Alexandria, Virginia, Maddie Grant raised the topic of RSS feeds. She’s tried a number of readers and now she uses Google Reader. Still, she complains about the problems with setting up readers and especially the challenges of explaining the process to other users. In her mind, RSS has not lived up to its promise.

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Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 at 12:30PM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , , , , | Comments4 Comments

Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community

Lee White and I recently initiated an experiment, described here, that consists of our writing about a specific topic (project management and social media) on our respective blogs. Lee writes a post on his blog, I respond on my blog, then we combine and display the posts and the comments we receive in a single RSS feed.

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