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The topics of newsmastering, newsradars and of integrating personal media aggregators into instruments of personal publishing, conversation or even political discourse have yet to be fully picked up by those people who could best benefit from them, though interesting things are already starting to happen all around them.

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or still in Beta stage deserve definitely more attention and […]

In the early days of radio in the U.S. there was very little control over who could use the various frequencies available to both commercial and amateur providers. Both were mixed in together in an interesting if chaotic hodge-podge.
Subsequent regulations separated out frequencies to be used for commercial and amateur broadcasts, with amateurs relegated […]

AOL and Yahoo! rocked the e-mail world announcing they’ll start charging $2.5-$10 per thousand emails sent to guarantee delivery. What does this mean for you and most importantly what do you need to start doing now to stay in the game before it’s too late …

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or still in Beta stage deserve definitely more attention and […]

Are you wanting to possibly cash in on some podcast traffic, but don’t have a podcast? Don’t worry, all you need is an RSS feed and you can start podcasting with Feed2Podcast.
MediaBlab has more info on the revolutionary (and free!) service.

A new service promises two-way personal communications via RSS. A great idea or a lost cause?

One of the key elements of the RSS marketing game is actually getting people new to RSS to subscribe to start using RSS and subscribe to your content. In this regard, BBC has done a huge leap forward and can serve marketers as real inspiration on how far to go to help their visitors “cope” with RSS.

The 2006 RSS Summit is shaping up to become the leading RSS event for marketers, covering key RSS marketing topics and developments.

If you’re looking to start using RSS in your marketing or want to expand on your knowledge and get some additional ideas, here are our top RSS Marketing articles and tips of 2005.

One of the great things about RSS is that it’s easily extendable through the use of “namespaces” - simply new custom elements or tags that work with the existing RSS specification - allowing developers to create their own additions to the RSS format.

Does anyone still remember that RSS was also supposed to be used to make it simple for publishers to share and display their content on other sites, to bring them additional visibility, credibility and targeted traffic? We now finally have a tool that makes this easy …

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly selection of new media gems found along my explorations during the past seven days. Many are new tools that have just been launched and are ready for you to take for a test drive.
My goal remains to provide you with constant access to those tools and facilities that can enhance, […]

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly selection of new media gems found along my explorations during the past seven days. Among them precious new online services that have just launched as well as key new tools I had not had space to catch and write about before. My goal remains the one of providing you with […]

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly basket of goods, tools and services found in the last week. Including several newly-released resources, these little gems can help you better understand and utilize the independent publishing revolution we are witnessing.
Feel free to download, test and try-out any of them. They are all readily available for immediate access.
Here is […]

Yahoo! just launched a beta of the first fully featured webmail integrated RSS reader. Considering Yahoo! Mail’s incredible reach, this is the next big step for bringing RSS to the masses and making it a “household appliance”. Most certainly good news for RSS marketers, which will without doubt shortly see a great increase in RSS penetration.

After many posts on different strategic and tactical issues of RSS, it’s time again to re-visit what RSS will do for you as a marketer and why you need it.

RSS DJ is a new RSS Reader that can take any RSS feed and automatically convert it to spoken word MP3. But it also comes as a bad sign of where this industry might be heading. Theft is the keyword here …

Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good’s weekly basket of goods, tools and services found in the last week. Including several newly-released resources, these little gems can help you better understand and utilize the independent publishing revolution we are witnessing.
Feel free to download, test and try-out any of them. They are all free and readily available for […]

The next Syndicate conference, entirely devoted to the business aspects of RSS, is taking place during December 12-14 in San Francisco. Coinciding with the event, an RSS Industry Night Roundtable will be taking place on the 12th, aiming to assemble a group of the top thought leaders in the RSS industry to discuss key topics that challenge all of us in this space.