Blogs & Feeds

Someday I’m going to do a look at traffic to my personal blog and especially show a nice illustration of the long tail in action. I also want to finally get my Cutts vs. Zawodny vs. Scoble traffic referrer chart up. All three have kindly mentioned my personal blog in the past, and it’s kind [...]

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I love Techmeme, absolutely adore it. But this entire Rocketboom thing illustrates a weakness, how a big story can crowd everything out. Take a look: For the record, I never watched Rocketboom. I started hearing more about it in the past few weeks and thought maybe I might check it out. Amanda Congdon’s name I’d [...]

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Well here’s a wasted debate, other than to give Alan Meckler and Jason Calacanis some exposure. Can Bloggers Make Money? has them going at it about whether blogging can turn into money. Alan says most won’t. Jason says they will if you group them together. For what it’s worth, I say try reading the debate [...]

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Now that I’m packing for our SES NY 2006 show, it was a good time for me to revisit how to get RSS Bandit to be in exactly the same state on your laptop as it is on your desktop, something I wrote previously was a nightmare with NewsGator. RSS Bandit does have a number [...]

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If you’ve been using Internet Explorer to read the blog, good news. Articles are now left-justified, just like you read in a book. I wasn’t centering the text before as some type of artsy thing. There was a coding bug that I couldn’t correct because Movable Type was refusing to rebuild with my revised code. [...]

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Dave Naylor and I were IMing today about IE 7′s new RSS feature. He was very excited. I haven’t tried it yet, but the screenshot he sent me didn’t make me think it was better than the RSS Bandit feed reader I currently use. I’ve been meaning to write about that anyway, so this gave [...]

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Until December, I used NewsGator to read feeds within Outlook. I’d used the tool for about two years and loved it, even more so when I started grouping feeds into categories/folders.  However, I had to bail out over its failure to properly sync feeds. I jumped instead to RSS Bandit, and I’m going to write [...]

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I upgraded to Movable Type 3.2 before going live on Daggle and made a rude discovery. My custom file name settings — my archive file paths — were screwing things up. Short story: MT didn’t like the "rebuild safe" file paths I’ve used on the Search Engine Watch Blog. The longer story is like this. [...]

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