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VIDEO: What is Feedly and Why I Use It

Aug. 27, 2009

Google Reader is a RSS feed reader that most people use to read blog entries. I have an active Google account and have a Reader account configured, but I don’t read your blog posts with it. Rather, I use a Firefox application called Feedly.
For visual explanation, here’s a video I created:

Three sets of thanks are [...]

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Say Bye to Twitterfeed – Say Hi to WordTwit

May. 14, 2009

If you use Twitter, you probably know about Twitterfeed, a web tool that allows you to automatically pollinate your Twitter updates through RSS feeds.
For instance, if you click over to the @GoverningPeople Twitter account which I manage, you’ll see many updates sent from Twitterfeed, indicative of blog posts sent via RSS from the GoverningPeople.com online [...]

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John Deere Prevents Teens From Reading News

Feb. 19, 2009

Known for their front loaders and other heavy machinery, Illinois-based John Deere prevents kids under age 18 from reading its press releases and product news.
Huh?
Buried in the “miscellaneous” section on their corporate website about subscribing to RSS feeds:
You certify you are legally permitted to use the RSS Services and access the RSS Content, and if [...]

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Q&A: How to Save RSS Searches in Google Reader?

Feb. 15, 2009

Wallace Reid, as first responder to my request for questions, asks:
Is there a way to save searches in my Google Reader? I ‘tag’ a lot of items by topic, and then search those topics for items that I have found interesting over the last year or so. I’ve been able to create a library in [...]

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How Intuitive Are You?

Jan. 14, 2009

Over the past 12 hours, I redesigned the layout of my blog.
Taking note of Oliver Reichenstein’s tips for de-cluttering a busy website and Anita Campbell’s advice on maximizing RSS icons, I changed the blog layout from three columns to two, and either removed or replaced sidebar widgets.
What do you think? How intuitive are you to [...]

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Why I Prefer Adding Comments on Blogger and Wordpress Platforms, Not Typepad Blogs

Nov. 29, 2008

Why I enjoy adding comments
I enjoy adding comments on other people’s blogs as much as seeing comments on my blog.
It is thrilling to watch the conversation shift from blogger to commenter #1 to commenter #2 to blogger to commenter #3 to commenter #2 to commenter #4 to blogger and back again.
You can see this back-and-forth [...]

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How Google Analytics Shows Me Who Visits My Blog (and Why It’s Important)

Nov. 29, 2008

I’m not obsessed about visitor metrics to ariwriter.com, but considering more people read a page than add a comment, I’m always curious who you are, what you look at, and where you come from.
I use a free application called Google Analytics that provides me javascript code to track data. If I was a Fortune 100 [...]

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