‘Anti-social Google Reader’ There’s been a pretty big uproar regarding the redesign and loss of features which has been rolled out to Google Reader, despite the paltry week’s notice given to users. Individuals can no longer have a basic sharing and following network within Google Reader. But worse is the claim that many users in more repressive countries were using Google Reader as social networks were blocked, and had connections of several thousand in many cases. That’s entirely lost now. WTF Google? MORE >>

pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact Social Media From A to Z: A Glossary by Pam Dyer on June 30, 2010 Share The social media landscape is changing quickly, and it’s filled with terms that are strange to those who aren’t familiar with it. Atom : Web feeds are used by the blogging community to share recent entries’ headlines, full text, and even attached multimedia files. Avatar : An Avatar is an image or username that represents a person online within forums and social networks. But never fear! MORE >>

RWW Network. Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Readers shared items. Feed Rinse is a best of class RSS filtering application. Feed Sifter is an almost painfully simple RSS filter that filters in by keyword. Five feeds??? MORE >>

Overwhelmed by following too many people on social networks or subscribing to too many blogs. Here are some simple ways to organize your sources of incoming information on social media, email, and blogs. The latest News Feed can be confusing if you are friends with a lot of people but only want to really keep an eye on certain people. Once you have added friends that you want to follow, you can simply view your custom list in the News Feed, hiding all of the updates by those who you have befriended but don’t necessarily want to follow closely. MORE >>

If you’re like many Internet users, you probably have a series of regularly updated sites that you visit each day – blogs, news sites, and social media hubs being chief among them. As a website owner or blogger, you can increase your visibility, generate additional site traffic, deliver content to your audience faster, and ultimately improve your bottom line by utilizing RSS feeds as a marketing strategy. The RSS feed itself may contain a full or summarized version of the text, in addition to data pertaining to authorship and publishing dates. FeedDemon ([link]. MORE >>