End Of An Era As IAC Pulls The Pin On Bloglines

The once great RSS reader Bloglines will close October 1 after owner IAC pulled the pin after years of neglecting the site. Launched by Mark Fletcher in June 2003, Bloglines was the first online based RSS reader to ... continue

The New York Times pulls dumbass move after getting free Apple publicity

How is it that a leading newspaper with a global reach doesn't get it. I mean here we have the New York Times competing with all the other big brand papers to establish a foothold on the ... continue

How to turn your blog into those flyers we all hate

One of the big drums that the high muckie-mucks of the blogging world is the idea of having your content in as many places as humanly possible. Some new service opens up that let's you pipe in ... continue

Well may we say God save RSS, because nothing will save stupid pundits

A long hot summer in the United States is predictable for a numbers of things: hurricanes, fires in California, and the tired old meme that RSS is dead. This summer has been no different on either front, ... continue

Will Dave Winer shed a tear over reported death of his baby?

Movies are noted for their overblown representations of death, with the actual scene of death being the high dramatic point of the movie. This latest flare-up of chattering about the so-called death of RSS ... continue

Sorry, but RSS isn’t going anywhere

We normally wouldn't link to something from the TechCrunch gossip empire, but for this we'll make an exception. Steve Gillmor (a.k.a he of little coherency) has posted on TechCrunchIT that RSS is dead. The premise of Gillmor's ... continue

Some help on the RSS overload from Feedscrub

I’ve often thought that one of the major drawbacks for RSS feed adoption within the mainstream is that fact that even for us old-timers in the biz the flood of RSS feeds we read everyday can be ... continue

How many ways can I tell you this is a f#@*ing bad idea

    I am a strong proponent for bloggers trying to monetize their work. There is a very fine line though, that we walk between reasonable advertising on blogs and RSS feeds and poisoning the well. It is all ... continue

RSS Adoption Stalling Because It Isn’t Joe Six Pack Enough

First it's the economy in a tailspin. Then it's web advertising heading for a decline and even people trying to figure out if lifestreaming is going to be the sperm that gives birth to the next generation ... continue

ReadWriteWeb tries something new with RSS ads

Despite years of talk, advertising in syndicated feeds (RSS) has never met the expectations once promised for it. In recent times, RSS advertising actually went backwards, when Google shut FeedBurner's native RSS advertising service, replacing it instead ... continue

An Easy Way To Add RSS Into Your Signature

Ever wanted to show off the latest entries from a blog within your signature? A new startup is making it easy. German-based FeedsR.Us lets you create an automatically-generated graphical signature that shows the last four headlines from ... continue