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Tools that rock my blogging that you should try too

by Tris Hussey on September 25, 2009 · 1 comment

in Blogging 101, Books, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog

While doing my morning skim through TweetDeck (among other info sources), I saw this post that I think fits pretty well with the theme of the book—8 tools & techniques to improve your blogging « Boagworld—so I gave it a read (clearly). Paul Boag lists some great tools for kick starting/inspiring your blogging, but I being me (and having more than a few—thousand—posts under my belt) I feel compelled to put in my two cents.
Here are Paul’s 8 tools so you have those as a baseline:

Google Reader & Newsstand (RSS [...]

Tagged as: blogging tools, blogging workflow, Blogo, ecto, evernote, feeddemon, Feedly, google reader, hootsuite, how to blog, NetNewsWire, posterous, PostRank, skitch, tweetdeck, Yojimbo

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RSS Readers–Why have you forsaken us? Part 1: Setting the stage

by Tris Hussey on September 7, 2009 · 2 comments

in Internet Life, RSS, Web 2.0

With all of the discussion of whether RSS is dead–RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com–or not–Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » If You Think RSS is Dead Then That’s Your Loss and It’s a Big One–I think we’ve glossed over a key part of the problem–RSS Readers. Dare Obasanjo took this topic head on–Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – The Top 5 Reasons RSS Readers Went Wrong–but I don’t think it go the attention it deserved. As I’ve been [...]

Tagged as: feeddemon, google reader, Gruml, mac os x apps, mac rss apps, NetNewsWire, rss software, Times reader

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Could a Twitter app become a light RSS reader?

by Tris Hussey on November 18, 2008 · 9 comments

in RSS, Web 2.0

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 thing is if you follow enough bloggers on Twitter using an auto-feed service, your Twitter stream starts to look lot like a streaming RSS reader with new posts popping up on a regular basis. Getting notifications about new blog posts is a useful alternative to your RSS reader because blog posts [...]

Tagged as: Feed readers, infostreaming, NetNewsWire, RSS, tweetdeck, twitter, Twitter clients

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

by Tris Hussey on November 17, 2008 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, RSS, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 form TweetDeck told me that an update was ready for me and I quickly said “Yes! Upgrade me!”. Here are the release notes for this new version:

Version 0.20 beta – 17/11/2008 (more info)
* – Added patches 0.19.1, 2 & 3 fixes
* – Added API rate limit info added [...]

Tagged as: Adobe AIR, AIR apps, infostreaming, knowledgestreaming, microblogging, microsharing, NetNewsWire, RSS, Social Media, tweetdeck, twitter, Web 2.0, web services