The Way of the Web

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Google has announced it will make a number of changes to Google Reader ‘in the next week’, and by the looks of it, they’re going to break a great existing product and tool which is used by a lot of professionals to be able to shoehorn some extra interaction into Google+.

Google Reader 43

Google Reader Google RSS Syndication 43

The Way of the Web

AUGUST 3, 2012

It’s particularly worrying in some areas, where companies of the size and scale of Google have effectively closed out the market, particularly in terms of RSS syndication with Feedburner and RSS reading with Google Reader. But also the @Feedburner Twitter account is being closed from today as well.

FeedBurner 67

FeedBurner Google Syndication Adsense 67

Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So how well do major news sites perform in these areas?

Sites 161

Sites News Yahoo Journal 161

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Daniel November 5, 2009 at 6:06 pm Also, how comfortable will news organizations be linking to other sources? To reporters’ sources? If we’re truly in an era of open-source journalism, I say reporters share their access (sort of) to sources via Twitter lists.

News 136

News List Twitter Sites 136

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

For more information, see Principles of Living Stories and this video from Google: UPDATE: February 17, 2010 – Google News announced that the Living Stories code would be made open source to allow for more sites to experiment with the format.

Google 112

Google Health Care Press Release News 112