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[MacZealots.com - Reviews] Feed the Hunger: RSS, Blogging, & Aggregators Explained (5): There are blogs on parenting, movies, politics, health, sex, sports, comic books -- you name it. Most of the new blogging activity is happening on personal Web pages, where it's been argued that having a successful personal website is a mark of one's popularity, or existence. Today, Dave Winer of Scripting.com is credited to running the longest, continuining, self-updated weblog in existence.
[i d e a n t] A del.icio.us study: All of the users who voluntarily supplied interview data asked about the inclusion of categories at one point or another: “[I]s there a way to organize the links into categories, if not on the main page, then perhaps a list of categories in the side bar?”, “[T]he added resources and links are not necessarily categorized, which make it difficult to locate things quickly” and “Is it going to be possible to have posts grouped by category?” These comments suggest that it’s hard to let go of established modes of classification. Even though del.icio.us gives users the power to build their own taxonomies, most still felt that some pre-arranged order would make the system more useful.
[John Palfrey :] Working Hypothesis v2.0: In the recent U.S. election, the Bush campaign used the internet to introduce jazz into its classical methods of outreach to targeted undecided voters. Before the days of the internet, local and state headquarters for the Republican Party or a given candidate would generate a “walk-list” of targeted swing voters, and send volunteers on a door-knocking campaign either to persuade undecided voters or to help get out the vote. With the internet, the Bush campaign website integrated mapping technology with the party’s databases so that an interested volunteer could enter his zip code on a webpage, and generate a list of voters in his neighborhood that the party wanted to target. Automatically, the site would create a map of those voters’ residences, provide an estimate of the time required for the volunteer to visit those neighbors, and distribute talking points so that the volunteer could promote the candidate’s targeted message in his region. With the internet, the volunteer could make these arrangements at any hour, as opposed to during headquarters’ business hours pre-internet; he could target relevant people in his immediate neighborhood, where he knows the area and potentially can build on personal relationships with his neighbors, instead of being sent across town to an area he may not know pre-internet; and, he is given a clear sense of the time required for this task so he can build it into his busy schedule. In a variety of ways, this web solution amplified the classical door knocking campaign characteristic of the pre-internet era.
[Wizard-creek.com] Website Planning: Over the course of the last decade, various internet technologies have emerged which have changed the way the internet is used. To understand the possibilities of a Website, it is helpful to understand in general the existing and various technologies, including streaming video, ecommerce, blogs, newsgroups, list serves, and instant messaging. Each of these is a possible way to enrich the experience of a Website.
[Ottergroup.com] ottergroup.com :: Main Page: One unfortunate response to these frustrations is to avoid measuring altogether the "hard to measure." In fact, a Conference Board study found that for 55% of the senior executives it surveyed, the leading obstacle to implementing strategic-performance measurement systems was an unwillingness to measure activities that posed this problem. And many of the companies that did try to track more qualitative measures ignored them when making decisions [because of] lack of trust in measures that were unproven and therefore subject to favoritism and bias." Becuase Blogs and RSS can make performance measurement easier and more trustworthy they can also make it possible to correlate those measurements with strategic goals. Of course, there has to be some strategic clarity to begin with.
[Ee.iusb.edu] American Democracy Project at Indiana University South Bend: An RSS feed contains the same content as a regular web page, but the content is wrapped in computer codes that allow it to be republished automatically on a different web site. Because of the codes wrapped around the content, nobody reads RSS feeds directly—instead, they read the content after it has been presented in another web page. RSS stands for really simple syndication.
[Amazon.com] Amazon.com: Books: Content Syndication with RSS: ... The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca ... Content Syndication with RSS is the first book to provide a ...
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, ECommerce, E-Business Library
