the blog of david dean » syndication

Technorati newsletter?

David Dean — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:31:09 +0000

Technorati, have you heard of a little thing called syndication? If I wanted ‘The Buzz Monitor’ I would subscribe to it with bloglines.

Hello from Technorati!

You are receiving this because you are on the mailing list for our upcoming newsletter, the Buzz Monitor.

The Buzz Monitor will be your weekly update of what’s happening on the web, right now. We’ll pipe you headlines from the blogosphere, photos from our members, tips and tricks for our publishers, and guides for our users. All this delivered fresh to your inbox each week courtesy of the world’s leading index of user-generated media.

The Buzz Monitor will arrive in html and text format, and will be archived and available on www.technorati.com. If you decide you don’t want it, simply http://technorati.cmail1.com/.aspx/u/xxxxx/xxxxxxxx/.

Expect the first edition of the Buzz Monitor to arrive next Friday, and every Friday thereafter. We’ll strive to report the best of the World Live Web every week, and we’re confident you’ll like it.

And you may just become addicted, so don’t say we didn’t warn you.

This email was sent to xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx. You can instantly unsubscribe from these emails by clicking the link below: http://technorati.cmail1.com/.aspx/u/xxxxx/xxxxxxxx/

The Chaser’s War on Everything Video Podcast

David Dean — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:18:44 +0000

Chaser is one of those shows that I always mean to watch but never do. Most of these shows (they ones I mean to watch) seem to be on ABC or SBS in Australia. But it appears that they are putting up video podcasts of their complete episodes, which is probably close to a first for most TV shows in the world. I may get around to watching it now, once my internet stops being so slow. I wonder if more ABC shows will start doing this.

Comic Strip RSS Feeds

David Dean — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:24:40 +0000

uberwald – Attention all Web Comic artists, etc:

I don’t know if you’re aware of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), or the benefits that it can offer you as a provider of content on the internet. Personally, I read about 45 comic strips online, all but one of which is a web-only comic. A handful of these comic strips offer an RSS feed which my syndicator checks at least daily, if not a little more often, and tells me when there’s a new strip, or in the case of the better feeds, a new strip OR rant from the author. The rest of my strips I check with a one click bookmark set that I check at least daily, downloading the entire front page of your comic strip. I don’t know how many of you have measured the size of your main page (or comic page, if it’s possible to direct link to that), but I can guarantee that it’s a hell of a lot bigger than an RSS feed would be.

I agree! But in the mean time, Comic Alert! provides RSS feeds for most online comics in a personalised feed (which I think is a bad way to do it, but that’s for another time).