An online notebook
An online notebook
…NewsBlur. Why did I choose NewsBlur? To be honest I don’t really know – it’s just that, after a little time of using it, NewBlur just felt right. A few of the options that emerged once Google announced the closure…
The world it seems is full of blog posts about RSS – really simple syndication, for the non-dorks. Apparently it’s dead. Or dying. Or very much alive. RSS is a standard for publishing the latest content on a site with…
Read/WriteWeb has an interesting piece on RSS aggregators, and whether they really matter any more: One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news…
I put a tweet out last week pointing people to a new domain, www.localgovweb.com, asking people to complete the form it contained. I asked for people’s: Blog addresses and whether they would like their posts to appear in an aggregated…
Steve Dale writes about his uneasiness with a new Twitter mashup service, Twitchboard, which automates the posting of content from Twitter to other social web services. At the moment, all it does is links: if you post a URL to…
The Guardian reports that the Conservative Party have unearthed that the spending by the various arms of the UK government on ‘media monitoring’ – ie finding out what people are saying about them – reached the sum of £16 million…
RSS is a great technology, one of those that underpins the new usefulness of the web. It’s a simple way of keeping in touch with what is happening in lots of different places, without having to keep visiting lots of…
I have made another quick addition to Public Sector Bloggers, with the availability of an OPML file to download. Rather than subscribe to the combined feed, you can instead import each individual feed into your RSS aggregator in one go.…
I’ve been putting a bit of work in updating the Public Sector Bloggers site, which aggregates a load of feeds from folk in the public sector who blog (duh…) in one place. The website gives a quick overview on the…
The fine folk at Common Craft keep producing the goods. If you need a quick intro to Google Reader, here’s a great one: [HTML1]