Those of you who visit pages besides the blog here at Idealware have noted that my article Using RSS Tools to Feed your Information Needs is up. If you're an old hand at RSS, then I'm hoping the article will serve as a good tool when trying to impress others of the value of syndication. websites rss Communication

Google Reader gets a good mention in my RSS article, Using RSS Tools to Feed your Information Needs , but deserves an even deeper dive. We've established that an RSS Reader helps you manage internet information far more efficiently than a web browser can; and we've talked in the last few posts about publishing feeds to your web site.

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) to Ma.gnolia.

But, unlike email - and more like, say, Delicious or Flickr , web sites that take what were traditionally private things - bookmarks and photo albums - and make them social, Twitter makes this messaging social. All of that potential is there, and, worse, the service seems to advertise those traits as its raison d'etre. friend pinging.

As the internet has progressed from a shared source of information to a primary communications tool, a natural offshoot of the migration has been where the two things meet: people referring internet information. Usually, it's somebody's RSS reader. rss Communication But the internet is not just about who you know.

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use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. Lately, my RSS reading habits have changed. Like a farmer tending his crops, I'd scan through each folder, each feed, bookmarking and annotating what caught my eye, and looking for patterns and connections. Communicating ???Participating Finding ???Looking

You just take advantage of, the ever growing in popularity, RSS. RSS, or really simple syndication , is not new. However, I hardly ever hear people talking about RSS aggregators and what it can do for self-education. On other sites, they will display that logo, something similar, or even a link to the RSS feeds.

Just put in the RSS feed of your blog, and then use the Advanced Options to add a preface or suffix to your posts (this is where you could say, as I do, “New post:&# or something).  I used the RSS feed of a specific tag, because I didn’t necessarily want every single item I bookmark to be tweeted out.