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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. The thing I like about RSS feeds is that if someone wants to share it, he can. E.g. I read formula1 news on [link] instead of f1 feeds. Again, I kid.)

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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

ProBlogger

If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. What’s good about this app is that it syncs with your Google Reader account and delivers the latest and most updated news feeds to your iPhone.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

I walked them through how to use both RSS feeds and del.icio.us , and showed them how they could use simply tag their relevant media coverage using whatever tags and descriptions made sense to them. They could then create an RSS feed for those tags that is placed onto their internal Intranet site. Add RSS feeds to your website.

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Major problems upgrading to Wordpress 2.9

The Way of the Web

As a plug in it redirects all RSS feeds and links to your Feedburner version allowing tracking etc, and without it, anyone trying to subscribe gets sent to the unformatted standard XML which I can’t track. So still scatterbrained.

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How to Be a Problogger on Tumblr

ProBlogger

Recently, Posterous was acquired by Twitter, signifying that a shut-down of the platform was imminent. I noticed this in a big way; my blog, called I Love Tumblr , which focuses on Tumblr tips and tutorials, had a huge influx of new traffic (especially to my Tumblr vs Posterous article—no surprise there).

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

her tone in contacting Dave has caused him to open up in the most sorrowful terms, lamenting the ‘feeding frenzy’ on Plurk and why would these people attack poor LillyBarb? Around here, we see an amazing proliferation of very high-quality posters of sad-looking children. Prove to me it all was donated, and then we can talk.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I agree that building a brand name is really important, but “fake&# followers who don’t even engage (or even sign on or follow their home feed, for that matter) are not going to help boost your brand. Reply Tamar Weinberg April 9, 2010 at 12:37 am Hi Loka, thanks for your comments. It’s an inflation of numbers, nothing more.