Category Archives: General
Apr 13, 2008 by Matt | Posted in General
Feedburner recently reported that they track around 60 million RSS subscribers. Even if we bump that number to 70 million RSS users (counting people that use RSS with other applications or platforms) this would still convert to a meager 5,4% of the Internet users around the world, as of today. (Daily Blog Tips)
That’s not good, is it? 95% of web users still visit sites manually every day, checking the same sites every day for updates. With RSS, you can, at a glance, see if a site has been updated, without visiting it by hand. The web comes to you, instead of you going to the web. It’s time to spread RSS.
RSS Awareness Day is Daniel Scocco’s latest crackpot brilliant idea to increase his subscriber count, er, improve the internet.
Really, you don’t even have to link to Daily Blog Tips to participate. Daniel is working on a site for the event over at rssday.org.
The goal is to get as many people using RSS as possible, so the event works like this:
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Apr 7
To quote RadioShack, “You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.” (Okay, okay, I know they haven’t used that tagline for a couple years…) What are your questions? What do you desperately want to know about blogging, PHP, design, SEO, or other topics? Do you want…
Apr 2
I’ve previously talked about my plans to publish weekly posts targeted at those new to webmastery, since WSC generally leans toward the more advanced blogger. Now, I want these plans to benefit the more experienced users as well. That’s part of why I’ve decided…
Apr 1
Today is April 1st. Many sites take today as an opportunity to pull pranks on their readers. In addition to just being fun, this can stir-up some publicity. However, some people may not like it if you set-up a joke. Some people just don’t…
Mar 28
When you add images to your blog posts, where do you upload them? Do you store them on an image host like TinyPic.com, or do you prefer to keep them on your own server somewhere? There are advantages to both methods, and of course,…
Mar 26
Earlier this month, I asked whether it was a good idea to start a weekly column on Webmaster-Source for newcomers to blogging. It looks like it will be happening. 92% of the voters said they were for the new column, and only 8% were…
Mar 12
Back in December, I wrote an article about recovering after your blog has been vandalized. Of course, you want to avoid having your blog trashed in the first place. The Lost Art of Blogging has recently released an informative article on securing your WordPress-powered…
Feb 10
Back in January, I asked how you like your RSS feeds. We ended up with some interesting results. 48% (10 votes) said they preferred full feeds. This is something that most of you would expect. People tend to demand full feeds quite often. 10%…
Jan 23
Well, it looks like OpenID is catching on. Two major companies (Google and Yahoo) are slowly launching support for the “single sign-in” standard. On a related note, I voiced some concerns last April about OpenID. They seem very relevant nowadays. Yahoo is implementing OpenID…
Jan 22
As you probably know by now, the popular RSS reader FeedDemon is now free. The maker, NewsGator, has decided to start making money solely off their enterprise customers. So they decided to make FeedDemon available to anyone who wants it (don’t worry, it’s still…
