Tag: Newsfeeds

• Changes to subscription services

  Sorry if this is a somewhat geeky post. I am using the Feedburner feed service. It allows many of you to acquire this blog through various mechanisms that don’t actually require that you to come to the site, a great way to read the blog if you are busy and/or lazy. It either emails my…

  Mark

  July 20, 2014

  Technology

  Atom, Feedburner, Google, Newsfeeds, RSS, Syndication

• Google, please don’t kill Reader!

  Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” Google, the benevolent overlord of the Internet, last week bared its teeth and bit us. Oh maybe not you personally, but certainly those of us who depend on Google Reader. Reader is not the only…

  Mark

  March 18, 2013

  Technology

  Aaron Swartz, Atom, Google, Google Reader, Newsfeeds, RSS

• The synergy of RSS to Email

  Four and a half years ago, I wrote about this new cool technology called RSS. Actually, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) was hardly new in December 2003. It was introduced by Netscape in 1999 as “RDF Site Summary”. This original version is now quaintly referred to as RSS 0.91. The problem in 2003 was that RSS…

  Mark

  May 20, 2008

  Technology

  EMail, Internet, Newsfeeds

• Content is King: All Hail RSS

  Really Simple Syndication (RSS) will be for this decade what HTML was for the 1990s. I knew that RSS had arrived when a couple months back no less than Yahoo News began offering its news content in RSS format. Now it seems everyone is jumping on the RSS bandwagon. I’m no exception: both my forum…

  Mark

  December 30, 2003

  Technology

  Blogging, Internet, Newsfeeds