CategoryRSS

20th of April 2006 Darren Rowse

FeedBurner Launch Email Subscription Service

Also from Feedburner today – the announcement of a new service called FeedBurner Email which allows you to provide a way for your readers to subscribe to your blog via email. It’s not a particularly new service (others have offered a variety of options to do it previously) but if ...more
RSS
20th of April 2006 Darren Rowse

Feedburner Ad Network – First Impression Review

I’ve just been accepted into the Feedburner Ad Network (FAN) program as a publisher. With my moving to publishing full feeds you’ll now also see an ad at the bottom of each post in my RSS feed. These are CPM ads (ie I get paid per thousand impressions) and not ...more
Advertising
7th of April 2006 Toby

RSS: Blog’s Friend or Foe?

Is RSS is the downfall of building relationships and commerce on blogs? First, let’s set the record straight. I’ve drunk the kool aid. I get it. I love RSS and that new orange icon is pretty cute too. The ability to read huge amounts of information in one place, receive ...more
Business Blogging
31st of March 2006 Darren Rowse

Online Feed Readers Compared

Frank Gruber has written a great review over at TechCrunch Comparing 9 Online Feed Readers. He concludes – ‘If you are looking purely for performance, Google Reader and FeedLounge are the fastest in our tests. Bloglines and Rojo are the best choice if you are looking for a feature rich ...more
RSS
30th of March 2006 Guest Blogger

RSS vs. Atom: What’s the Big Deal?

Aaron Brazell is the author of Technosailor.com and is a regular guest blogger at ProBlogger. Last month, I wrote an article here at ProBlogger in The Blogging for Beginners series introducing the concept of feeds. The article was Kick Your RSS: Jumping on the Syndication Bandwagon and it was received ...more
RSS
13th of March 2006 Darren Rowse

Feed Subscriber counts – Ego badges or Useful?

There’s a couple of posts over at cre8d which caught my attention today. Firstly Rachel writes about Subscriber count buttons and ask if they are the ‘new hit counter?’ She writes: “On the other hand, some may find that displaying subscriber counts may come across as an ego badge, just ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
25th of February 2006 Darren Rowse

Kick Your RSS: Jumping on the Syndication Bandwagon

The following post was submitted by for the Blogging for Beginners Series by Aaron Brazell. Aaron is a major contributer over at b5 (he is a major player in keeping our servers in order) and writes on numerous blogs including Emerging Earth and Technosailor.com. I asked Aaron to write an ...more
RSS
23rd of February 2006 Darren Rowse

The latest Full vs Partial Feed Debate

Lots of debate today over the good old ‘full feed vs partial feed’ question. Robert Scoble responds to a post by Duncan Riley who accuses Steve Rubel of ‘not getting it’. Kent Newsome say’s that Steve ‘Does Get it’ and Nick Wilson agrees with Robert. Every other blogger and his ...more
RSS
18th of February 2006 Darren Rowse

Promote your Blog through Rojo’s FeedShare

If you’re looking to promote your blog through advertising but don’t have a budget for it you might want to look at a new service that Rojo (a feed reader) is rolling out called FeedShare. The system is basically an automated ad swapping service where you place an AdSense like ...more
Blogging Tools and Services