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Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point

I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books … Continue reading

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Full Text vs Partial Text It Isn’t The Feed But The Reader’s Interface That Matters

Scoble was always one of the staunchest proponents of full-text RSS feeds out there. Back when I was a pro-blogger trying to crank out lots of posts in a day (or hour), I agreed with him. It was much more … Continue reading

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Why Pick One RSS Reader When You Can Use Three–At The Same Time

I’ve been a hard-core RSS user since the beginning of my blogging days and I think I’ve tried almost every RSS reader out there. Mashable just put out the Top 10 RSS Readers (as chosen by readers) … good list … Continue reading

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All the extra tools bloggers need–WordCamp Victoria talk

It’s not hard to get blogging, regardless of what blog engine you use (though WordPress is the best IMHO), but there are tricks and tools that make life easier for you. At WordCamp Victoria I decided to distill and talk … Continue reading

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Tweetdeck getting funding isn’t crazy, it’s the next move forward: stuff that works

Yeah I love TweetDeck , it’s open all the time and one of the first things I installed on my netbook. TweetDeck is the only way I’ve found I can get much out of Twitter at all. Iain is a … Continue reading

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Could a Twitter app become a light RSS reader?

Since getting hooked on TweetDeck over the summer,it has become an indispensable part of my “infocentre”. In my TweetDeck setup I have a column just for these “news” tweets, just for info streams from posts as Mark describes: The interesting … Continue reading

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TweetDeck hits 0.20, becomes more useful, and almost my dashboard

Over the weekend we got word that version 0.20 of TweetDeck was nearly done and being sent to early testers (Iain, pls can I be an early tester for the next round) and planned for updating today (ish). True to … Continue reading

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PostRank nourishes the RSS ecosystem: Keep indexing those feeds!

Last week aideRSS re-launched PostRank and unveiled a new Firefox extension to help you pick and subscribe to a site’s best stuff. You all know that I’m a huge fan of aideRSS and I rely on it to cull my … Continue reading

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Blogging’s death knell only rung by those of limited vision

All the brew-ha-ha about the death of blogging last week didn’t really surprise me much (See Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Wired and Tish Grier). I had a post percolating in my head about the whole issue, but it wasn’t until … Continue reading

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FeedDemon 2.8 proves that client-based RSS apps still rock

After reading Steven Hodson’s review of the new FeedDemon 2.8 beta, I pinged Nick Bradbury on Twitter to see if I could get on the test of early testers. Nick sent me the links to the latest version and sent … Continue reading

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