Tag Archives: RSS

RSS Awareness Day

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: May 2, 2008

After publicizing RSS Awareness Day, May 1st, I am a day late in taking part, although in some parts of the world it may still be yesterday. Not wanting to miss out on a chance of joining in with bloggers blogging in unity I had to get my own two cents worth in. If your site provides a feed then you will be familiar with RSS. I know there are still many people who do not understand the concept nor use a feedreader. There are those who believe blogs are merely used as personal online diaries, which they would not [...] Continue Reading…

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Too many RSS Feeds – Newsgator FeedDemon

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: January 14, 2008

This cartoon pretty much sums up my feelings, after spending time importing and organizing feeds into Newsgator’s FeedDemon desktop RSS reader. Cartoon by Dave Walker. I was able to quickly import my existing subscriptions from Bloglines into FeedDemon, keeping the folder structure too – a large amount of feeds that I have collected over 4 years or so making many of them out of date, or no longer read, meaning a long reorganization for me. Newsgator has recently made all its RSS suite of products free. In addition to FeedDemon they also offer NetNewsWire, the Mac version, NewsGatorGo for mobiles [...] Continue Reading…

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SSS 17 – Subscribe to this RSS Button

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: September 9, 2007

It’s Sueblimely Silly Sunday time again. Have you noticed that Subscribe to Feed buttons are becoming larger and larger on many blogs. I know the theory is that if you place the button in a prominent position towards the top of your sidebar then you are likely to get more subscribers. Now it looks as if that the trend is to try to coax readers to subscribe before even reading the blog; by having the button so large they distract you from the content. (you guessed, I am exaggerating but they are getting bigger). I remember a time not so [...] Continue Reading…

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Feedburner – Tools for Bloggers

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 20, 2007

FeedBurner is a news feed management service providing custom RSS feeds and tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web publishers. I started using Feedburner to add an additional feed to this blog because of the statistical tools it provides for analyzing your traffic. Since then many additional tools have been added including the ability to embed advertising in your feed; thus earning income from it. Feedburner has recently been acquired by Google. I would recommend you take a look at what is on offer as I think it is an excellent tool for gaining readers and retaining them. I have [...] Continue Reading…

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