Feeding time

Seth Godin talks here about Bobcasting, the art of delivering tailored feeds that are meant just for the individual.
With Bobcasting, I can have a feed for my Fedex packages, a feed updating me on the status of my frequent flyer miles at American, a feed from the project manager on the construction of my treehouse… [...]

Oops. Can’t find a feed.

I got an invite to join a networking site a few weeks ago. I didn’t like it – too many ads and endless email ‘updates’.
So now I’m playing with Facebook and warming to it a little more. But something still bugs me – I can’t find a feed. Neither can Google Reader. As [...]

journals and wikis

There are many, many academic journals, books and other resources and many, many readers, subscribers, libraries…
So RSS has got to be a significant tool for publishers wanting to get regular updates out to info-swamped librarians, readers, authors … hence projects such as ToCross and Ingenta’s work with Grazr I guess.
But the journal feeds that [...]

rss and wikis

Wikis do great things and you can watch the changes and all that stuff. But if I want to use feeds to keep track I’m stuck with an external reader. As the site grows wouldn’t it be nice to embed a widget that shows your watchlist feeds on your main page?