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Goodbye Feedblitz, Hello WordPress Feed

Ari Herzog

Subscribing by email is easy: You submit a form with your email address, confirm you want to opt in, and you will receive an email message every time your favorite blogger publishes a new post. Subscribing by RSS is different: You use a web application and add the blog’s feed to your app. Here’s a 2018 Wired article about RSS readers.

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Goodbye Feedblitz, Hello WordPress Feed

Ari Herzog

Subscribing by email is easy: You submit a form with your email address, confirm you want to opt in, and you will receive an email message every time your favorite blogger publishes a new post. Subscribing by RSS is different: You use a web application and add the blog’s feed to your app. Here’s a 2018 Wired article about RSS readers.

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

iGoogle is an Ajax-based personal web portal. Basically, it allows users who are signed into their Google account to customize their homepage with lots of cool stuff. You can add RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, personalize it with custom themes, and even view your Gmail inbox, all in one place. Click this link and follow the directions.

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

iGoogle is an Ajax-based personal web portal. Basically, it allows users who are signed into their Google account to customize their homepage with lots of cool stuff. You can add RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, personalize it with custom themes, and even view your Gmail inbox, all in one place. Click this link and follow the directions.

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Sharing Monica Lewinsky to Explain Facebook

Ari Herzog

I shared this Gawker story about Monica Lewinsky and it looks different on my Facebook news feed than my wall. Look at the following screenshots to see what I mean. This is the Gawker share in my news feed. This is the Gawker share on my wall. All of my friends and anyone who follows me will see it in the news feed 99% of the time.

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Why I List My Facebook Friends

Ari Herzog

Facebook defines the news feed as “an ongoing list of updates on your homepage that shows you what’s new with the friends and pages you follow.” The feed also shows updates from brand pages after you click like.

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Meet the Power of Blog Syndication

Ari Herzog

I previously announced myself as a blogger on syndication links on sites including B2C and SMT. They tweeted on my behalf — and like clockwork, people retweeted them.