Archive for September, 2006

Top 10 Uses of RSS in Law Firms

September 29th, 2006

This article details what they refer to as: The Top 10 Uses of RSS in Law Firms . A few observations, they refer to ego feeds as vanity feeds, which can and should be used in almost any market segment and do not really discuss specifics of the legal field.
How about monitoring the police logs using RSS?

Feedvertising

September 29th, 2006

TextLink Ads has launched Feedvertising run text link ads in your RSS feed. I have not dug into this to see if there any benefits over the current feed serving technologies like Pheedo.

Are Newspapers on The Way Out?

September 29th, 2006

TIME Magazine posted a very interesting article about how blogs are effecting newspapers. I disagree with their conclusion, but believe they raise some excellent points in the article:

"I'm not sure what that new form will look like. But it might resemble the better British papers today (such as the one I work for, the Guardian). The Brits have never bought into the American separation of reporting and opinion. They assume that an intelligent person, paid to learn about some subject, will naturally develop views about it. And they consider it more truthful to express those views than to suppress them in the name of objectivity."

TIME raises the very important point about blogger credibility. What many bloggers do not realize is that once you post something that is not true, most will unsubscribe, while others will question everything that you write. I think that credibility will become something that bloggers have to earn.  Personally I am looking forward to the day that bloggers are held accountable for their comments.

NEW SQL2RSS Script

September 26th, 2006

Converts MySQL databases to RSS feeds, based on administrator queries. The new script allows administrators control the contents of the resulting feeds based on their queries and parameters. More on SQL2RSS

Google News Goes To Court

September 25th, 2006

It appears Google is defying Belgium's court order to post a recent court ruling that said the Internet search engine to stop publishing content from Belgian newspapers without permission or payment of fees.

It will be very interesting to see how this ruling and Google's actions will influence the Internet and cross border copyrights.

Full Article

It appears Google had a change of heart -

Google Inc. on Saturday published on its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its news amalgamation service.


The move constituted a u-turn as Google had said on Friday that it would not comply with the court order despite facing a fine of 500,000 euros ($640,900) daily if it did not publish the ruling.

Full Article

Cardinal Blogging

September 24th, 2006

Looking to marry the Roman Catholic Church's 2,000 year history with the modern world's technology, Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley on September 21st became the first U.S. cardinal to launch a blog.

FeedMailer

September 19th, 2006

New Feed Mailer service. Register, add feeds then receive feed updates via email.

RSS Guts

September 18th, 2006

Have you ever considered using all the less popular RSS tags, but never really understood what kind of value to enter? The following guide will assist you in determining which tags are valid, and what the content of tags should contain.

RSS Security Summations

September 18th, 2006

RSS Security Collection is an aggregated group of articles and random links related to security and RSS. The resource collection compiles all of the articles related to security and RSS.

Rok Hrastnik

September 17th, 2006

Rok Hrastnik is a prolific writer and has articles published on RSS. We have posted Rok's bio to give readers insight into Rok's background.