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Feeds basics 101: using Feedburner - why, how, & more ways to publicise your blog (part 3) - A Consuming Experience
3. How to use Feedburner UPDATE: for the impatient, here are 12 quick steps to take to use Feedburner for your blog ; you can refer to this post as a reference guide. This part 3 is an introductory guide, part review part practical tutorial, to the fab service Feedburner , focusing mainly on Blogger users but with info of interest to users of other blogging platforms too - with a basic intro to Feedburner, an overview of its services and howtos and tips on using Feedburner and getting the most out of it.
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FeedBurner BuzzBoost: RSS to Javascript
Then, from the list of services on the left, click on BuzzBoost . Then, choose your Settings and Content options (you can change any of these options later on). You can choose to display just the titles of the posts, or the contents, too. You will then see the javascript code you need to paste into your blog or wiki or webpage in order to display the latest headlines. (I've posted previously in this blog about the use of javascript widgets like this with Blogger.com, PBWiki.com, Quia.com, plus the Desire2Learn course management system - there are some web environments that do not accept this kind of javascript, such as ning and LiveJournal, but there are plenty that are very javascript-friendly!)
Are you using FeedBurner? You should be!
Other Factors you may find Important: You can setup FeedBurner to automatically ping Technorati, My Yahoo, Bloglines, Newsgator, Google Blog Search, and Ping-o-matic, helping list your articles in these services much faster and a possible huge boost for non-blogs. (Publicize Tab > Ping Shot - left menu) They also have API Services, Headline Animators, Display AdSense ads in feeds, publish PodCasts, merge and link feeds from popular services, and much more .Over the past few months there has been plenty of speculation around the Web that Twitter ’s growth has stalled, but if we look at activity on Twitter in terms of the number of tweets, this is far from the truth. According to our research, Twitter is as of December processing more than one billion tweets per month . January passed 1.2 billion, averaging almost 40 million tweets per day. This is significantly more than Twitter was processing just a few months ago. To visualize the increase in Twitter activity over time, we have created a chart that shows the number of tweets per month back to mid 2008. It’s quite revealing.
Twitter: Now more than 1 billion tweets per month | Royal Pingdom
A blog is a great tool with which to express your opinions, build a community, network with others and drive traffic to your website . Successful blog content is fueled by inspiration. Inspiration can be found in a number of different (and sometimes obscure) places, but there are a few reliable avenues you can explore to jumpstart your inspiration . CSS Galleries CSS galleries are a great resource for web design inspiration. Spend at least 5 minutes a day searching through galleries and you’ll quickly find a topic that you’re inspired to write about.
How to Blog Effectively | Webdesigner Depot
Choosing a Blogging Platform
When you decide to start your own blog, there are many choices to be made. The very first choice is which platform to use. The most popular blog platforms are Blogger , Typepad , and WordPress . This article will explain the basic differences of these platforms and the pros and cons of each. When choosing your blog platform, you’ll need to determine whether you would prefer a hosted or non-hosted blog platform. A hosted platform is one that is housed on the platform’s server.
039;s State of the Blogosphere - Technorati
Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2010 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. For 2010, we took a deeper dive into the entire blogosphere, with a focus on female bloggers. This year's topics include: brands embracing social media, traditional media vs. social media, brands working with bloggers, monetization, smartphone and tablet usage, importance of Twitter and Facebook, niche blogging, and changes within the blogosphere over 2010. The 2010 edition of State of the Blogosphere finds blogs in transition—no longer an upstart community, now with influence on mainstream narratives firmly entrenched, with bloggers still searching for the next steps forward.
If you are a fan of the Live Bookmarks feature, you might wonder how to make them update quicker since the default update time is once per hour, and there isn’t a place in the interface to configure this. You can always manually right-click on the bookmark and choose Reload Live Bookmark, but that’s hardly efficient if you have dozens of feeds bookmarked. You can change the default interval for all live bookmarks with a config setting.
Change update interval of Live bookmarks in Firefox
[ edit ] History The RSS formats were preceded by several attempts at web syndication that did not achieve widespread popularity. The basic idea of restructuring information about websites goes back to as early as 1995, when Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer 's Advanced Technology Group developed the Meta Content Framework . [ 4 ] RDF Site Summary , the first version of RSS, was created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V.
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Subscribing to an RSS feed (pre 1.5) When you visit a site and you see the orange icon in the bottom right part of the Mozilla Firefox browser window (the status bar), or if you are using version 1.5 or newer, in the right most part of the address bar. Subscribing to an RSS feed (1.5 and later) You can add the feed(s) by clicking the orange icon and subscribing to one.