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The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
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Flipboard: The product is great, the hyperbole is grating
Flipboard says 130 publishers have reached out to them and the response has been “universally positive.” I’m guessing Conde Nast, publisher of the New Yorker, wasn’t among them as one of Flipboard’s “Suggested Sections” (at least when I signed on … Continue reading
Facebook goes River of News
For a few people who are obsessed with the way content flows from creator to consumer (to use a food metaphor), today is a rather interesting day. It’s the day when a concept that started out being called an RSS … Continue reading
Happy “5th” Anniversary, Podcasting (well, not actually)
First off: Today is not actually the fifth anniversary of podcasting. Dave Winer had demo’d file enclosures distributed via RSS over three years earlier. In other words, RSS-enabled audio and video distribution was almost four years old, five years ago … Continue reading
A blog post from me-to-you in ‘real-time’
[via: ReadWriteWeb.com]: “All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports … Continue reading
I’m too lazy to explain this
As I’ve written many times before, I’ve grown weary of trying to evangelize the time-saving, productivity merits of using a service like Google Reader. More than that, I’ve learned how much it scares people to hear the initials RSS (despite … Continue reading
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Maybe an RSS reader is better than FriendFeed after all
The other day, on a post about the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, I pointed back at a post I wrote in October, 2007 in which I wrote, “I already have a friend feed – it’s called an RSS newsreader.” … Continue reading
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A river of news — that actually flows (warning: if you’re a news junkie, don’t try this)
Snackr turns any OPML (a file that contains a list of RSS feeds) into an animated screen ticker that runs along any edge of your computer’s deskto. … In other words, it’s like an RSS reader that is set up in a River of News mode, but in this case, the headlines are actually flowing. Continue reading
How to get an RSS feed with tons of ‘free’ stories on WSJ.com
In the previous post, I linked to Kevin Rose’ post about the WSJ.com adding a Digg button to the bottom of pages throughout the site. Obviously, the real news in Kevin’s blog post is that every story that is “dugg” … Continue reading
FeedDemon’s “Popular Topics” is like a personalized Techmeme.
[Note #1: This a somewhat long and geeky post about RSS newsreaders and memetrackers. If you aren't obsessed with those topics -- and believe me, if you're not, I understand completely -- you should probably skip it.] If you use … Continue reading
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How’d I miss this? Apple just turned Apple Mail into an RSS news reader
Talk about losing something in the shuffle. I totally missed any mention that a part of the Leopard upgrade would include the integration of RSS into Apple Mail. However, I just noticed the feature when Apple Mail auto-upgraded (is that … Continue reading
Newsgator on iPhone — I’m liking this
This is a first. I’m blogging about somthing you can do with FeedDemon before Nick Bradbury. However, I’ll admit the reason I can beat him is that Typepad, where his blog is hosted, seems to be offline. If you have … Continue reading
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Podcasting Twittergrams: A prediction
Dave Winer is media-hacking* Twitter and coming up with some fun, trivial stuff that one day we’ll all realize was serious, important stuff. For example, he just posted an announcement that one can subscribe to an RSS feed of any … Continue reading
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How to organize and keep up with all that information that appears on the Internet — in plain english
Watching this video is good for two reasons*: 1. It explains how to use a newsreader in a way that is clever and simple to understand. 2. It proves that you don’t need broadcast-quality production values to create a killer … Continue reading
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TV News on demand?
Dave Winer would like to have more active control over what stories CNN (et al) chooses to air — for him. He’s even mocked up an interface for how it could work. I don’t watch TV news for the reason … Continue reading
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Dave Winer, prototwitterer
Dave Winer hacked a cool ‘river of twits’ that (using an RSS feed of NYT’s latest headlines and Twitter’s public API) posts new headlines from the New York Times to the account twitter.com/nyt, complete with automated “tinyurl” link to the … Continue reading
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