A Really Simple Primer on RSS

AP has put together the best explanation on RSS I have seen to date. I love how JB Holston from Newsgator sums it up: RSS brings the Web to you, rather than you having to go out and find things...

17 Sources for Content Inspiration

The Use of the Internet by America's Newspapers


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What Abe Lincoln's T-Mails Teach Us About Blogging
Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails is a fascinating new book by Tom Wheeler that examines Abraham Lincoln's telegrams. He was the first US President to tap the power of the telegram. While Tom's advice is geared towards helping us all craft better...

Compete.com Free Web Metrics Reviewed
CyberNotes has a nice review of Compete.com - a new free web metrics/analytics tool that is comparable, yet different from Alexa....

Some Fundamental Friday Video


Ezine Mistakes: Avoiding the Delete Key

links for 2006-11-04
CrackBerry is this dictionary's Word of the Year - BBHub "The New World College Dictionary's 2006 word of the year is CrackBerry" (tags: blackberry Writing fun) Snipperoo Universal Widget Widgets for your Web site. (tags: Widgets) US Presidential Speeches Tag...

Truths of Blog Marketing: Reaching Customers, Building Your Brand


Widgets will Transform Blogs Into Start Pages
Within a year we're going to see blogs transforming themselves into customized start pages. This won't happen with all blogs. It will start with high-traffic sites that zero in on popular verticals like tech and politics. As these tools become...

Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web
Personalized start pages and web widgets have been on my mind a lot lately. As I add these gadgets to my Windows Live, Netvibes and Google.com/ig pages, I am spending far less time other sites. In fact, it's now possible...

NBA Pulls Vids from Google Video
The NBA and Google Video have terminated their landmark partnership, which was announced to much ballyhoo earlier this year. All games, which had been previously available for a fee, have been pulled down from Google. This includes last year's NBA...

Episode II: Revenge of the Portal
The following is also my column on AdAge.com. It expands on a post I wrote last week ... Episode II: The Revenge of the PortalWhy Mainstream Media Is Taking a Cue From These Web Giants In the 1990s, there were...

Social Media and the Election
Lost Remote, one of the most popular blogs tracking the TV biz, is watching out the election returns play out on digg, Flickr and Technorati. They note that this is digg's first election....