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Sometimes the best resource of all is to just stop, pull together all of your findings, and see how to integrate them in an effective way in your daily workflow.
Intelligent research and experimentation on the cutting edge requires also having time to slow down and learn how to actually fit new ideas and learned lessons […]

Syndication, RSS, feeds and atom; we have all heard the jargon words thrown around time and time again. Here recently it seems like RSS is picking up steam so I figured it was about time I started to really learn how it works.

MarketingStudies.net interviewed Bill Flitter of Pheedo.com, one of the leading people in the RSS marketing industry, to get all the key information about advertising in RSS feeds.

I just recently interviewed Lee Oden, a search engine marketing and PR expert, on using RSS for search engine positioning, as well as on online PR and little-known search engine optimization tactics.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul, a website traffic generation specialist, shares her tactics and tips on using RSS for search engine positioning, as well as discusses other key traffic generation approaches.

As many of you know by now, the act of Podcasting is basically distributing audio content via RSS. While this may be simple to implement for some, often times it proves to be a challenge for others. One solution is to use a program called Feedforall and then simply follow their step-by-step tutorial.

Rok Hrastnik has done his homework well. Rok has used, tested, experimented, stretched, and asked everything he could about RSS.

Just for the sake of retro-gnoming, I thought it might be fun to whip up a fresh batch of ‘RSS-batter’ for all of the RSS rabid gnomies out there. After giving it about 10 minutes worth of thought, I decided that I would examine the reason why some people are open to embracing RSS while […]

Roland Tanglao has done it again.
Thanks to the excellent free services provided by PubSub, Roland has taken the time to spell out for the novice and the expert alike how to track your name, URL and related keywords.

Do you know how to ping XML-RPC servers?
Ever wondered how you can let the world know that your latest post is out the moment you hit “Publish” on your blog site?
XML-RPC is the answer.
If you are a blogger, your blogging software may offer you a different, immediate method to notify directories that your blog […]

Chris has a great set of tips on RSS at CNET.
Think about your favorite search engine for a second. Can it deliver a link to an article or a posting that hit the Web minutes ago? It should, and if it doesn’t, might I suggest finding a new favorite?
RSS is an easy way for sites […]

Here is some good advice on how to improve the usability of your RSS newsfeeds.
Common feed publishing errors are a frequent encounter and if you consider adding a RSS feed to your Web site/blog you might want to use this very list as an initial reference RSS usability guide.
Here some initial key items […]

The great thing about Adobe Photoshop is that it’s useful for anything from the simplest projects to the most complex. It’s possible to use its surface features for years without knowing a darned thing about its deeper functions, and that’s fine - they’ll be there when you need ‘em. Here’s a site that helps you […]

The Roman Relocation Program’s poster fellow Jason Cook has written up quite a nice tutorial over at the once-defunct, now resurrected (hallelujah!) and much-loved Webmonkey called RSS and Atom: What Next?

“Jeremy Wright asked me to tell him how to put full posts in his RSS templates, so, here are all of my RSS feeds and their templates: RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup and comments; RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup but without comments; RSS 1.0 Full Feed, without HTML markup […]

FeedCreator.class.php (the artist formerly known, amazingly enough, as RSSCreator.class.php) provides a way to create RSS feeds from within PHP using easy classes.

Yet another RSS primer, this time, ironically enough, released by Mark Nottingham–even though it is worthy to note the copyright on the document is circa 2002 (which means this just may be the first time LG has seen it). Some of you may recognize him as the author of the specification for the Atom Syndication Format. Therefore, it should come as a suprise to almost no one that comprehends the current state of politics in the “syndication world” that this primer focuses on the RDF side of RSS feeds (0.9x and 1.0). Fancy that?

Fagan Finder provides us with a Great New RSS Primer: “Before you go any further, realize this: RSS is really simple. Just because it is an acronym doesn’t mean that it’s complicated. Don’t get scared away, there’s really nothing to it. I said it was an acronym, but depending on who you ask and what version of RSS you are speaking about, it may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or a variation on one of those. None of that matters to you anyhow…”

Like many of us, are you confused by the sheer variety of RSS types there are out there? Atom, still in active development, hasn’t fragmented like its RSS predecessor, but, as Mark Pilgrim writes in this article, “…it’s early yet. These things take time.”

“If your code makes any distinctions other than these then it is a sign that you have (a) misunderstood how to process RSS or (b) are using a crappy XML parser. When I first started working on RSS Bandit I also was confused by these distinctions but after a while things became clearer. The only […]