Feed Uptick - RSS Reset

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Update: Post pulled for inaccuracy.  Sorry about that!  When it comes to stats I'm still learning.  Thanks to Louis for setting me straight.  However, FeedCompare is still a useful utility that you should check out. I was re-reading yesterday’s post about RSS Reset and, since I included the live FeedBurner counters ...

RSS Reset Update

Monday, June 9th, 2008

About a week ago, Corvida and I kicked off a plan that is now known as RSS Reset.  In my original post, I said I would check back periodically and let you know how I was doing.  And here we are! In the first followup post, I listed ...

My Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha FriendFeed Compatibility Index

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Earlier this week in my FriendFeed article, I mentioned an aspiring developer and [[statistician]] named Yuvi Panda, or The StatBot. In the last couple of days, he has been playing with the FriendFeed API and has come up with an interesting stat: the FriendFeed Compatibility Index. Essentially, this algorithm ...

Update: Switched to FeedBurner

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Just a heads-up, I have enabled FeedBurner and all the associated goodies on my site. The plugin should take care of redirecting the current RSS URLs to FeedBurner, so in theory you don't need to do anything further in order to continue getting the quality blog entries you have ...

Louis Gray: Comments that Live Outside of the Blog, Good or Evil?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

457999405Louis Gray has a great write-up on different A-list blogger's takes on the thorny issue of comment systems that work in tandem with RSS feeds to allow commenting outside of the blogs the articles were originally written on. One of the more frequently mentioned suggestions for avid Google Reader users is ...

Flock 1.1 Review from Linux.com

Friday, April 11th, 2008

A good review of Flock 1.1 on this site, including some functionality that I overlooked: Version 1.1 really shines in its enhancements to the MyWorld page, including the Friend Activity Feed. Once you've logged into all your social networking services, you can drag and drop messages from one friend to another. ...

Shameless Self-Promotion

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The Flock review I wrote has been noticed! The good folks at Flock sent me a tweet thanking me for the write-up. Thank you, Flock! @eng1ne: That is an awesome Flock writeup, you totally get it! :) Also, I recently promoted this article on Digg. Mostly to see if ...

Followup: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I found this video on YouTube when doing a Google search for (ok, I admit it) my own social bookmarking article.  Enjoy! In fact, I just discovered that the group that did the video above has a whole bunch of useful videos, which you can find at their site, The ...

Followup: Twitter Thoughts

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

As usual, I was messing around with a new WordPress plugin from Sphere (you can see the new link at the bottom of each post) and I decided to test it on my Twitter post. It did what it was designed to do and found a bunch of Twitter-related ...