Comments Back On

Comments Back On

Finally, comments are open again. It was about time.

And the story behind why they were closed in a great example of what's wrong with the internet today.

a] My hosting company updates their servers due to constant comment spam attacks ... mostly through this website. Comments off.

b] I start e-mailing them about the problem, but receive no response. Why? Because my e-mail messages are getting blocked by their spam filters.

So, to start off, comment spam kills our comments. Then e-mail spam prevents the hosting company to even find out about my problem. Isn't this nice ...

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RSS E-commerce From Burpee.com, Ice.com and Ebags.com

Reveries.com strongly underestimates RSS readership and quotes some old stats, but otherwise provides some great new e-commerce RSS examples.

a] Burpee.com
Burpee.com is an online vegetables, flowers, herbs and garden gear retailer, who now has more than 10,000 RSS subscribers getting their new product info via RSS. A good RSS presentation page. And oh, it's the W. Atlee Burpee & Co. example we've already written about.

They're even planning on educating their catalog readers about RSS. Great idea!

b] Ice.com
Ice.com sells jewerly. They haven't implemented RSS feeds yet, but plan to, and are counting on an integrated strategy combining RSS, catalogs, videos, blogs and e-mail. Good ideas, especially the one on using RSS to not only deliver product info but also wedding ideas and simillar. You now just need to do it ...

c] Ebags.com
These guys, selling bags and accesories online, get the point. Their CEO likes RSS because it allows them to constantly deliver new product information that customers actually want, as opposed to e-mail where you'd be kicked for sending a new product mailing every day. I just wish I could find their feeds on their site. An opportunity lost?

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