http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-04T12:02:09-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/04/om_malik_on_rss_spam.php Om Malik on RSS spam clogging up places like Technorati, PubSub and Feedster (RSS Spam Cometh?).It has been working well, but lately I have observed a few disturbing signs that can quickly turn RSS into yet another technology to avoid.... 6285@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-04T12:02:09-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/03/subscriptionbased_advertsing.php Terry Heaton has more about RSS in advertising ("It's All About the Money").Harry Hayes sent me a link yesterday to a new service by Northwest Airlines -- fare promotions and other items delivered via RSS. This is significant, because RSS... 6275@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-03T09:27:41-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/01/rss_for_marketing_lots_of_innovative_potential.php ClickZ has an interesting article on interesting uses of RSS for marketing: Real-Life RSS Marketing.Forrester analyst Charlene Li enthuses about RSS apps. "This whole idea of light apps being built on top of RSS feeds. Why can't consumers just visit... 6258@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-01T09:08:44-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/28/scoble_on_improving_rss_newsreaders.php The Scobleizer has some more suggestions for improving RSS newsreaders (Some Ideas for News Aggregators). I'd listen to the man, he subscribes to more RSS feeds than anyone I know. But, shouldn't there be a way to note feeds that... 5812@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-28T12:24:00-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/25/dear_clueless_ip_lawfirms_use_rss.php The EEJD Blog has put together a wonderful list of IP publications by lawfirms (Intellectual Property Publications by Firm). There are 22 lawfirms with IP-related publications as of this date and, after having checked all these sites, this seems to... 5748@http://importance.corante.com/ RSS 2005-05-25T11:45:48-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/16/feedburner_and_yahoo_media_rss.php Lots of potential, not sure how well it will all work out in the end, however. Ionrss reports that Feedburner will be supporting Yahoo! Media RSS (Feedburner Media RSS Support - and soon Structured Blogging). via Marc's Voice... 5640@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-16T00:56:48-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/13/scoble_no_rss_lame.php Scoble makes a good case that websites without RSS are a good marker for websites that are also lame (No RSS feed? It's a Genetic Marker for "Lame Site"). See also, his brief followup, More About RSS and Marketing Sites.... 5612@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-13T12:39:20-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/04/12/follow_the_political_money_use_the_web.php WIRED has a very interesting article on the various websites that make it easier to track campaign finance in the political system (Following the Money Made Easier). A number of the best websites are cited, such as Fundrace, Political Money... 5094@http://importance.corante.com/ Privacy 2004-04-12T18:39:13-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/29/rssbittorrent_in_action_broadcatching_examples_roundup.php Andrew Grumet reports that broadcatching actually picked up some interesting and unexpected content (March 26, 2004): When I logged in this morning there was a BitTorrent window open and a copy of Free Culture on my hard drive. Simon put... 5080@http://importance.corante.com/ Broadcatching/Podcasting 2004-03-29T21:28:27-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/24/rss_bittorrent_broadcatching_porn_business_models_and_banned_music.php Everyday it seems that there is something cool and neat in the RSS/BitTorrent/Broadcatching realm. Today is no exception. For example, Brian Clark, proprietor of the excellent Outside the System, suggests two business models for broadcatching. Additionally, the music hacktivists behind... 5073@http://importance.corante.com/ Broadcatching/Podcasting 2004-03-24T21:24:14-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/23/rsstv_emergency_broadcatching_system.php On Saturday, Andrew Grumet announced the release of RssReader 0.4d (RssReader 0.4d). In Andrew's words, "RssReader is TiVo-resident software that displays the contents of an RSS feed on your television." Of course, who the heck really wants to read RSS... 5071@http://importance.corante.com/ Broadcatching/Podcasting 2004-03-23T06:46:36-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/22/broadcatching_rssbittorrent_progress_report_and_roundup.php The Dowbrigade News is quite excited by the possibilities of broadcatching (Video Aggregator 1.0). A broadcatching discussion has been taking place on a Yahoo! BitTorrent group (RSS + BitTorrent = Broadcatching). Jonathan Schull jumps on the broadcatching bandwagon and points... 5070@http://importance.corante.com/ Broadcatching/Podcasting 2004-03-22T21:51:10-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/18/broadcatching_the_good_the_bad_the_slashdot.php Thanks to all the recent publicity, Simon Carless reports on his ffwd blog that LegalTorrents, a site for legitimate music torrent files that is experimenting with broadcatching, has given away an additional 300gb of music (broadcatching in the dark fatman... 5063@http://importance.corante.com/ Broadcatching/Podcasting 2004-03-18T05:10:24-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/16/rss_bittorrent_roundup_broadcatching_isnt_ms_active_channels.php WIRED publishes an article that does a good job of summarizing the potentials of RSS + BitTorrent (Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool): A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's... 5057@http://importance.corante.com/ RSS 2004-03-16T19:23:51-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/15/rss_bittorrent_and_broadcatching_for_courts.php The Shifted Librarian, an RSS maven if ever there was one, has a short post on the use of broadcatching for library archives (RSS Feeds for Internet Archive Collections). This reminded me of a concept that I worked on several... 5055@http://importance.corante.com/ RSS 2004-03-15T19:12:52-08:00