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Using Faviki to Bookmark "Technological Literacy" Items
I’m using the Faviki bookmarking service to manage bookmarks related to my “technological literacy” research.
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.
How Different Are Your Blog's Copyright Interests from the Associated Press?
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).
How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Direct Marketing, Blogging, and Association Email
In Three effective uses of a blog for association magazines Ben Martin lists a fourth item from a conference he attended recently:
A Conversation about Project Management and Social Media
Lee White and I are discussing how social media can be used to support project management. Lee discusses his views on his blog, I discuss my views here, and below you can see a combination of both of our posts.
How Reliable are Widgets and RSS Feeds?
One of the nice things about modern web standards and publishing technology is the ability we non-programmers now have to rapidly combine data from different web based sources through use of easy to handle scripting tools.
Local Government Uses RSS Feeds for City's Press Releases
Here is an example of how RSS feeds can be used by local governments to provide information to the public. The City of Alexandria, Virginia is using RSS feeds to distribute information to the public about city events.
RSS Feeds: Results of a "Full" versus "Partial" Experiment
Dave Munger in The end of the RSS experiment presents the results of data collected to analyze what happened when his web site turned off partial RSS feeds and substituted full RSS feeds. A reduction in site page hits corresponded to the publishing of the full RSS feeds, presumably because feed reader users had no need to return to the web site -- where ads are visible.
Goodbye to My "Blogs" Folder
No, I'm not stopping my blog reading. I'm referring to the "blogs" folder that has been sitting in the upper left hand corner of my Firefox browser's Navigation Toolbar for I don't know how long.
