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Solving feed overload (December 12, 2006) Feed reading often leads to information overload. What techniques might improve this?

High volume subscriptions via IM (November 11, 2006) It seems a bit counter-intuitive, but I'm finding that the best way for me to keep up with high-volume feeds is to get them out of my reader and into Feed Crier.

Introducing Feed Crier (August 8, 2006) Feed Crier can keep you up to date with your feeds through instant messaging.

Universal feed icon blog button (February 2, 2006) I've created an 80x15 blog button that uses the new-ish universal feed icon. Feel free to steal it and advertise your feed.

Feedster feeds (February 2, 2006) Feedster's core features are rotting.

Are Branded feed readers the answer? (November 11, 2005) Brand Autopsy compares RSS subscriptions to Starbucks and says publishers need to provide the cup. What if there was no cup?

Where do the RSS ad startups fit in? (November 11, 2005) Yahoo's RSS advertising service could spell trouble for pure-play RSS advertising services unless they adapt their business model.

How Yahoo's RSS Advertising works (November 11, 2005) Here's look at how Yahoo's RSS ads work and a comparison to the ad insertion techniques of some of the other players.

Feed usage and copyright (January 1, 2005) A trademark lawyer has requested that Bloglines stop including his feed. The complaint? That Bloglines is a commercial service.

Handling RSS in the browser (January 1, 2005) People often forget that many of the problems faced by RSS and Atom are not new. They've already been solved, so instead of reinventing the wheel we should use the existing standards. How a browser handles an RSS feed is the latest example of this.

Blogging and the Law (November 11, 2004) EBIG is hosting a discussion of business blogs and the law.

My Spam in RSS (October 10, 2004) My spam is now in an RSS feed for your enjoyment.

Joining Pheedo (September 9, 2004) A consultant no longer, I'm now the CTO of Pheedo.

Why's it called Syndication? (June 6, 2004) When people collect content from multiple sources, it's not really syndication, it's aggregation. A reader asks why this is and what he should call it.

RSS Strategies (April 4, 2004) Are you publishing in RSS? Have you received any benefits from it?

New Google features, UI (March 3, 2004) Google's released two new features and tweaked their UI. But where's the RSS?

Yahoo RSS first thoughts (January 1, 2004) After using the Yahoo RSS reader for five minutes, I offer some hasty thoughts.

Yahoo Re-aggregator (January 1, 2004) After a false start earlier this month, My Yahoo now includes an RSS aggregator.

RSS resource (August 8, 2003) If you want to learn how RSS can help you or keep track of new RSS tools and services head over to Lockergnome's RSS Resource.

Projects need leadership (July 7, 2003) Being a leader is hard. Not everyone will like you if you stand up for your principles. But people don't lead because they want to be popular.

The Not RSS thing (July 7, 2003) There's a new API spec being proposed, so you'd think I'd be getting involved. But I don't really have the energy.

Blogroll autodiscovery (June 6, 2003) An automated way for machines to find and process your blogroll would benefit applications like Feedster as well as making it easier for tools to find related weblogs.

SourceForge RSS (May 5, 2003) SourceForge is now providing RSS feeds with information about the open source projects they host. Your company can use weblogs and RSS to track project status internally or with customers.

RSS contents (April 4, 2003) If you're going to provide an RSS feed, make it worthwhile.

Usable in subtle ways (April 4, 2003) Sometimes the best features in software are the ones you barely notice.

Referral Abuse (January 1, 2003) Aggregators are misusing the http referrer header to identify themselves.

Broken aggregator (January 1, 2003) Bad feeds have broken my aggregator. This problem could be exploited by a malicious attacker.

RSS Ads in Movable Type (December 12, 2002) Using the Regex plugin to insert intelligent advertising into an RSS feed.

Full Post RSS Feed (December 12, 2002) This weblog's RSS feed is now available as full posts.

Comments feed (September 9, 2002) An RSS feed that contains the comments on items in this weblog. Keep up to date on the comments without repeatedly checking the site.

RSS for publishers (September 9, 2002) Mark Nottingham's introduction to RSS for content publishers.

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