My latest roundup of links and tools I read blocked blogs I m gettin me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). What a great thing to hand out to administrators! Are you up to the challenge? The 2008 Comment Challenge is now on (and, hey, recognize a fantastic commenter!) Why K-12 educators shake their heads at academia Rick Hess perfectly captures one of my primary complaints about academia, which is that much of what we do is completely ina

Awesome Content is Directly Opposed to Massive Adoption
My previous article titled Signal to Noise: Twitter, Blogging, and Your Other Crap sparked a few really great comments from folks. It seems many more people are now wrestling with the information overload. There s now official terms even: Email Bankruptcy , RSS Bankruptcy , and Twitter Bankruptcy (not to mention actual financial bankruptcy because we spend all day learning and not doing). But who cares about official terms when I can barely spend 30 seconds to read the rest of this article

6 Steps To Properly Position Your Real Estate or Mortgage Business For Financing
Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Feed Advertising
Feed Advertising October 17th, 2007 RSS feeds have long been a location for advertisement for commercial products or services. We have also seen the arrival of feed powered ads where the content of an advert generally in widget format hosted on a website is provided via an RSS feed. A good example is the feed-powered advertising model on Gabe Rivera s popular news tracking site Techmeme. Although not new at the time (CNET, nooked, Pheedo, Feedburner and others had done this before) this

How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

Today is RSS Awareness Day. The goal of today is to increase knowledge about RSS so the general public is more familiar with the concept. Organizers are hopefully that the exposure to RSS will increase the usage of feeds and Internet applications that support RSS. For those not familiar with RSS, it stands for Really Simple Syndication. You can subscribe to a feed in a browser like Internet Explorer 7. If you have ever noticed an orange icon that highlights when you are on a blog, t

Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding
Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding Writing for the web is a very imporant part of business writing people have to do these days. Especially if you conduct business online, and these days - that is a given, isn t it? Maybe you have a web site that needs fresh articles, or you need a press release or sales copy to help market what you are selling. This article marketing website is a short online resource that will show you the power of good online content, and what it can do for you

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

Google is (still) stalking me
A little over a year ago I wrote a post that turned out to be one of my most popular ever. So, to have a bit of fun, I want to revisit that post and see how my relationship with Google has evolved in the past 365+ days. So come on. Take another trip with me through my day with Google. 5:15am: Ugh. The day starts to my blaring clock radio. There is an ad running that Google has sold through ClearChannel. 5:30am: I get up, take a shower and go to the home office to check my Gmail account.

The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

Google is (still) stalking me
A little over a year ago I wrote a post that turned out to be one of my most popular ever. So, to have a bit of fun, I want to revisit that post and see how my relationship with Google has evolved in the past 365+ days. So come on. Take another trip with me through my day with Google. 5:15am: Ugh. The day starts to my blaring clock radio. There is an ad running that Google has sold through ClearChannel. 5:30am: I get up, take a shower and go to the home office to check my Gmail account.

Thoughts on Blogs
So there was a roundtable on HBO last night hosted by Bob Costas and dealing with sports media. One topic covered was The Blog (duh duh duhhhhh). On the right: Buzz Bissinger, vocal critic of blogs. On the left: Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin, arguably the most influential blog in history. If you didn t watch it here s what you missed: Bissinger boiling to the point of hysteria over the flilth that is The Blog and how it s a disgrace to the written language, and so on and so forth

Viigo: BlackBerry Feed Reader
I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding Writing for the web is a very imporant part of business writing people have to do these days. Especially if you conduct business online, and these days - that is a given, isn t it? Maybe you have a web site that needs fresh articles, or you need a press release or sales copy to help market what you are selling. This article marketing website is a short online resource that will show you the power of good online content, and what it can do for you

Google to Launch Next Gen Blog Advertising Network?
I m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that s nothing compared to what they ll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I m talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market and it s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it s more like 55%. As blogs

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

Viigo: BlackBerry Feed Reader
I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

On this episode of Radio Active, geek fitness gets a gut check, Nuketown delves deep into statistics, I discover a new path to gaming adventure with the Pathfinder RPG alpha, I try two new online productivity tools and offer my thoughts on how to write a better role-playing game adventure in less time. Getting the Show There are several ways to get the podcast: Download the MP3 directly Subscribe to the podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows sh

Viigo: BlackBerry Feed Reader
I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

6 Steps To Properly Position Your Real Estate or Mortgage Business For Financing
Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Thanks for the Hits: April 2008 Traffic and Referral Numbers
Copyright 2006-2008 Clever Dude. All Rights Reserved. Now that April has come to a close, I ve tallied the (almost) final traffic numbers and determined that although not as big as March, April was still a success. I had over 26,000 visitors and over 40,000 pageviews, but the more important thing to note is that I ve consistently had 800-1000 visitors per day. It shows that Clever Dude is still growing in readership and maintaining steady growth. Subscriber Growth Speaking of readership, the

RELEASED: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding
Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding Writing for the web is a very imporant part of business writing people have to do these days. Especially if you conduct business online, and these days - that is a given, isn t it? Maybe you have a web site that needs fresh articles, or you need a press release or sales copy to help market what you are selling. This article marketing website is a short online resource that will show you the power of good online content, and what it can do for you

Radio Active #66: Gut Checking Your Productivity
On this episode of Radio Active, geek fitness gets a gut check, Nuketown delves deep into statistics, I discover a new path to gaming adventure with the Pathfinder RPG alpha, I try two new online productivity tools and offer my thoughts on how to write a better role-playing game adventure in less time. Getting the Show There are several ways to get the podcast: Download the MP3 directly Subscribe to the podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows sh

Google to Launch Next Gen Blog Advertising Network?
I m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that s nothing compared to what they ll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I m talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market and it s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it s more like 55%. As blogs

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

Today is RSS Awareness Day
Today is RSS Awareness Day. The goal of today is to increase knowledge about RSS so the general public is more familiar with the concept. Organizers are hopefully that the exposure to RSS will increase the usage of feeds and Internet applications that support RSS. For those not familiar with RSS, it stands for Really Simple Syndication. You can subscribe to a feed in a browser like Internet Explorer 7. If you have ever noticed an orange icon that highlights when you are on a blog, t

Google is (still) stalking me
A little over a year ago I wrote a post that turned out to be one of my most popular ever. So, to have a bit of fun, I want to revisit that post and see how my relationship with Google has evolved in the past 365+ days. So come on. Take another trip with me through my day with Google. 5:15am: Ugh. The day starts to my blaring clock radio. There is an ad running that Google has sold through ClearChannel. 5:30am: I get up, take a shower and go to the home office to check my Gmail account.

So there was a roundtable on HBO last night hosted by Bob Costas and dealing with sports media. One topic covered was The Blog (duh duh duhhhhh). On the right: Buzz Bissinger, vocal critic of blogs. On the left: Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin, arguably the most influential blog in history. If you didn t watch it here s what you missed: Bissinger boiling to the point of hysteria over the flilth that is The Blog and how it s a disgrace to the written language, and so on and so forth

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

RELEASED: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

What’s New in Online Marketing | nooked speaking June 25th, 2007 Fergus Burns from nooked will be speaking at the What s New in Online Marketing event by E-consultancy.com in London this Wednesday 27th June, 2007. Fergus is speaking at 2pm and the topic is RSS and feed-based marketing how should you be using feeds to open up and distribute your content? How do you market your feeds and track ROI? Do drop by and say hello. Posted by joshea Filed in Blog

I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding
Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding Writing for the web is a very imporant part of business writing people have to do these days. Especially if you conduct business online, and these days - that is a given, isn t it? Maybe you have a web site that needs fresh articles, or you need a press release or sales copy to help market what you are selling. This article marketing website is a short online resource that will show you the power of good online content, and what it can do for you

Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Objective The objective of the RSS Awareness Day is to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits on May 1st. Bloggers and blog readers are already aware of the RSS format, but if enough of them talk about it perhaps the mainstream media will cover it as well, and the general public will get exposed to it. If people start reading about RSS and how it can help them everywhere, I am sure that some will get curious at least to try it out. Over the time the usage of

How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

Google to Launch Next Gen Blog Advertising Network?
I m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that s nothing compared to what they ll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I m talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market and it s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it s more like 55%. As blogs

Radio Active #66: Gut Checking Your Productivity
On this episode of Radio Active, geek fitness gets a gut check, Nuketown delves deep into statistics, I discover a new path to gaming adventure with the Pathfinder RPG alpha, I try two new online productivity tools and offer my thoughts on how to write a better role-playing game adventure in less time. Getting the Show There are several ways to get the podcast: Download the MP3 directly Subscribe to the podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows sh

RELEASED: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon
Examples of feedcommerce - Amazon November 14th, 2007 Amazon has proven itself to be one of the most innovative companies in e-commerce and that is no exception when it comes to feed commerce. RSS Tag Feeds Amazon provides support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds. For example see www.amazon.com/rss/tag/blu-ray/new products tagged blu-ray for the very first time and my own tag feed for products http://www.amazon.com/rss/people/A1TN3320DDHFY4/products Amazon Gold Box Amazon Gol

Feed Advertising
Feed Advertising October 17th, 2007 RSS feeds have long been a location for advertisement for commercial products or services. We have also seen the arrival of feed powered ads where the content of an advert generally in widget format hosted on a website is provided via an RSS feed. A good example is the feed-powered advertising model on Gabe Rivera s popular news tracking site Techmeme. Although not new at the time (CNET, nooked, Pheedo, Feedburner and others had done this before) this

I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding
Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding Writing for the web is a very imporant part of business writing people have to do these days. Especially if you conduct business online, and these days - that is a given, isn t it? Maybe you have a web site that needs fresh articles, or you need a press release or sales copy to help market what you are selling. This article marketing website is a short online resource that will show you the power of good online content, and what it can do for you

Green-minded Bloggers Celebrate Earth Day with EPIC Coverage
Kicking off Earth Day 2008, a group of eco-minded social media makers produced over 50 pieces of social media at the EPIC Sustainable Living Expo in Vancouver April 18-20. The multi-media coverage including audio podcasts, video clips, blog articles, and a vast collection of photos. In all, the crowd-sourced campaign featured over 70 eco-conscious businesses and sustainability minded organizations, plus numerous presenters and even a green episode of CBC s the Dragon s Den. The media dispat

Not so irrelevant 008
My latest roundup of links and tools I read blocked blogs I m gettin me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). What a great thing to hand out to administrators! Are you up to the challenge? The 2008 Comment Challenge is now on (and, hey, recognize a fantastic commenter!) Why K-12 educators shake their heads at academia Rick Hess perfectly captures one of my primary complaints about academia, which is that much of what we do is completely ina

Feed Advertising
Feed Advertising October 17th, 2007 RSS feeds have long been a location for advertisement for commercial products or services. We have also seen the arrival of feed powered ads where the content of an advert generally in widget format hosted on a website is provided via an RSS feed. A good example is the feed-powered advertising model on Gabe Rivera s popular news tracking site Techmeme. Although not new at the time (CNET, nooked, Pheedo, Feedburner and others had done this before) this

Kicking off Earth Day 2008, a group of eco-minded social media makers produced over 50 pieces of social media at the EPIC Sustainable Living Expo in Vancouver April 18-20. The multi-media coverage including audio podcasts, video clips, blog articles, and a vast collection of photos. In all, the crowd-sourced campaign featured over 70 eco-conscious businesses and sustainability minded organizations, plus numerous presenters and even a green episode of CBC s the Dragon s Den. The media dispat

Google to Launch Next Gen Blog Advertising Network?
I m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that s nothing compared to what they ll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I m talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market and it s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it s more like 55%. As blogs

Google is (still) stalking me
A little over a year ago I wrote a post that turned out to be one of my most popular ever. So, to have a bit of fun, I want to revisit that post and see how my relationship with Google has evolved in the past 365+ days. So come on. Take another trip with me through my day with Google. 5:15am: Ugh. The day starts to my blaring clock radio. There is an ad running that Google has sold through ClearChannel. 5:30am: I get up, take a shower and go to the home office to check my Gmail account.

Objective The objective of the RSS Awareness Day is to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits on May 1st. Bloggers and blog readers are already aware of the RSS format, but if enough of them talk about it perhaps the mainstream media will cover it as well, and the general public will get exposed to it. If people start reading about RSS and how it can help them everywhere, I am sure that some will get curious at least to try it out. Over the time the usage of

6 Steps To Properly Position Your Real Estate or Mortgage Business For Financing
Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Thanks for the Hits: April 2008 Traffic and Referral Numbers
Copyright 2006-2008 Clever Dude. All Rights Reserved. Now that April has come to a close, I ve tallied the (almost) final traffic numbers and determined that although not as big as March, April was still a success. I had over 26,000 visitors and over 40,000 pageviews, but the more important thing to note is that I ve consistently had 800-1000 visitors per day. It shows that Clever Dude is still growing in readership and maintaining steady growth. Subscriber Growth Speaking of readership, the

RELEASED: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

Less than half an hour after I posted this item earlier today, I found that it was already scraped and republished in a splog. To prevent this in the future, I ve installed the Feed plugin, which adds a copyright notice to each item in my RSS feeds that will appear in any scraped content saying that it was stolen. Copyright 2008 by Mike Cohen This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news r

Not so irrelevant 008
My latest roundup of links and tools I read blocked blogs I m gettin me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). What a great thing to hand out to administrators! Are you up to the challenge? The 2008 Comment Challenge is now on (and, hey, recognize a fantastic commenter!) Why K-12 educators shake their heads at academia Rick Hess perfectly captures one of my primary complaints about academia, which is that much of what we do is completely ina

Less than half an hour after I posted this item earlier today, I found that it was already scraped and republished in a splog. To prevent this in the future, I ve installed the Feed plugin, which adds a copyright notice to each item in my RSS feeds that will appear in any scraped content saying that it was stolen. Copyright 2008 by Mike Cohen This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news r

How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

What’s New in Online Marketing | nooked speaking
What’s New in Online Marketing | nooked speaking June 25th, 2007 Fergus Burns from nooked will be speaking at the What s New in Online Marketing event by E-consultancy.com in London this Wednesday 27th June, 2007. Fergus is speaking at 2pm and the topic is RSS and feed-based marketing how should you be using feeds to open up and distribute your content? How do you market your feeds and track ROI? Do drop by and say hello. Posted by joshea Filed in Blog

6 Steps To Properly Position Your Real Estate or Mortgage Business For Financing
Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Examples of feedcommerce - ebay
Examples of feedcommerce - ebay November 20th, 2007 Examples of feedcommerce - eBay Product search search for any product using feedcommerce Ebay offers product search results via RSS feeds with the user receiving feed updates whenever new products appear that match their search. Consumers can create a custom personalised RSS feed that will deliver the results of your eBay search to you via any RSS reader. Since eBay has integrated the RSS support with advanced search pages, you’ll hav

Green-minded Bloggers Celebrate Earth Day with EPIC Coverage
Kicking off Earth Day 2008, a group of eco-minded social media makers produced over 50 pieces of social media at the EPIC Sustainable Living Expo in Vancouver April 18-20. The multi-media coverage including audio podcasts, video clips, blog articles, and a vast collection of photos. In all, the crowd-sourced campaign featured over 70 eco-conscious businesses and sustainability minded organizations, plus numerous presenters and even a green episode of CBC s the Dragon s Den. The media dispat

Objective The objective of the RSS Awareness Day is to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits on May 1st. Bloggers and blog readers are already aware of the RSS format, but if enough of them talk about it perhaps the mainstream media will cover it as well, and the general public will get exposed to it. If people start reading about RSS and how it can help them everywhere, I am sure that some will get curious at least to try it out. Over the time the usage of

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Copyright 2006-2008 Clever Dude. All Rights Reserved. Now that April has come to a close, I ve tallied the (almost) final traffic numbers and determined that although not as big as March, April was still a success. I had over 26,000 visitors and over 40,000 pageviews, but the more important thing to note is that I ve consistently had 800-1000 visitors per day. It shows that Clever Dude is still growing in readership and maintaining steady growth. Subscriber Growth Speaking of readership, the

I m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that s nothing compared to what they ll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I m talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market and it s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it s more like 55%. As blogs

Objective The objective of the RSS Awareness Day is to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits on May 1st. Bloggers and blog readers are already aware of the RSS format, but if enough of them talk about it perhaps the mainstream media will cover it as well, and the general public will get exposed to it. If people start reading about RSS and how it can help them everywhere, I am sure that some will get curious at least to try it out. Over the time the usage of

Viigo: BlackBerry Feed Reader
I’ve installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry. It’s called Viigo. Reading news on a BlackBerry is not easy. There is a built-in browser, but like most mobile browsers, it suffers from the lack of screen space. Visit in a site that uses Java or complicated style sheets optimized for large screen, and many pages become a jumble of unconnected nonsense. Some sites spend the money on professional web designs that reconfigure based on the device being used to render the page, but they are the e

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Examples of feedcommerce - ebay
Examples of feedcommerce - ebay November 20th, 2007 Examples of feedcommerce - eBay Product search search for any product using feedcommerce Ebay offers product search results via RSS feeds with the user receiving feed updates whenever new products appear that match their search. Consumers can create a custom personalised RSS feed that will deliver the results of your eBay search to you via any RSS reader. Since eBay has integrated the RSS support with advanced search pages, you’ll hav

Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding
Why Online Content Creation Is So Demanding Writing for the web is a very imporant part of business writing people have to do these days. Especially if you conduct business online, and these days - that is a given, isn t it? Maybe you have a web site that needs fresh articles, or you need a press release or sales copy to help market what you are selling. This article marketing website is a short online resource that will show you the power of good online content, and what it can do for you

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So there was a roundtable on HBO last night hosted by Bob Costas and dealing with sports media. One topic covered was The Blog (duh duh duhhhhh). On the right: Buzz Bissinger, vocal critic of blogs. On the left: Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin, arguably the most influential blog in history. If you didn t watch it here s what you missed: Bissinger boiling to the point of hysteria over the flilth that is The Blog and how it s a disgrace to the written language, and so on and so forth

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Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

Not so irrelevant 008
My latest roundup of links and tools I read blocked blogs I m gettin me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). What a great thing to hand out to administrators! Are you up to the challenge? The 2008 Comment Challenge is now on (and, hey, recognize a fantastic commenter!) Why K-12 educators shake their heads at academia Rick Hess perfectly captures one of my primary complaints about academia, which is that much of what we do is completely ina

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Less than half an hour after I posted this item earlier today, I found that it was already scraped and republished in a splog. To prevent this in the future, I ve installed the Feed plugin, which adds a copyright notice to each item in my RSS feeds that will appear in any scraped content saying that it was stolen. Copyright 2008 by Mike Cohen This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news r

The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

6 Steps To Properly Position Your Real Estate or Mortgage Business For Financing
Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Awesome Content is Directly Opposed to Massive Adoption
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The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality include a batch site manager. You can now move site collections around including between content databases. There are also added features for accommodating for alerts, etc. when there are web application changes to the addressable

Objective The objective of the RSS Awareness Day is to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits on May 1st. Bloggers and blog readers are already aware of the RSS format, but if enough of them talk about it perhaps the mainstream media will cover it as well, and the general public will get exposed to it. If people start reading about RSS and how it can help them everywhere, I am sure that some will get curious at least to try it out. Over the time the usage of

Feed Advertising
Feed Advertising October 17th, 2007 RSS feeds have long been a location for advertisement for commercial products or services. We have also seen the arrival of feed powered ads where the content of an advert generally in widget format hosted on a website is provided via an RSS feed. A good example is the feed-powered advertising model on Gabe Rivera s popular news tracking site Techmeme. Although not new at the time (CNET, nooked, Pheedo, Feedburner and others had done this before) this

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Thoughts on Blogs
So there was a roundtable on HBO last night hosted by Bob Costas and dealing with sports media. One topic covered was The Blog (duh duh duhhhhh). On the right: Buzz Bissinger, vocal critic of blogs. On the left: Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin, arguably the most influential blog in history. If you didn t watch it here s what you missed: Bissinger boiling to the point of hysteria over the flilth that is The Blog and how it s a disgrace to the written language, and so on and so forth

How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the se

Green-minded Bloggers Celebrate Earth Day with EPIC Coverage
Kicking off Earth Day 2008, a group of eco-minded social media makers produced over 50 pieces of social media at the EPIC Sustainable Living Expo in Vancouver April 18-20. The multi-media coverage including audio podcasts, video clips, blog articles, and a vast collection of photos. In all, the crowd-sourced campaign featured over 70 eco-conscious businesses and sustainability minded organizations, plus numerous presenters and even a green episode of CBC s the Dragon s Den. The media dispat

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Google to Launch Next Gen Blog Advertising Network?
I m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that s nothing compared to what they ll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I m talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market and it s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it s more like 55%. As blogs

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Below is the final post in a three part series by Ryan Page who maintains the not so ironic nom de plume of The XBanker. Ryan and the crew over at XBanker, which also include renowned personal credit guru Gerri Detweiler and incorporation specialist Garret Sutton, focus on small business advice and financing strategies. Bookmark this site in your RSS reader as it s chock full of great business advice that any real estate or mortgage professional should consider. Just because you re a good ag

Objective The objective of the RSS Awareness Day is to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits on May 1st. Bloggers and blog readers are already aware of the RSS format, but if enough of them talk about it perhaps the mainstream media will cover it as well, and the general public will get exposed to it. If people start reading about RSS and how it can help them everywhere, I am sure that some will get curious at least to try it out. Over the time the usage of

Green-minded Bloggers Celebrate Earth Day with EPIC Coverage
Kicking off Earth Day 2008, a group of eco-minded social media makers produced over 50 pieces of social media at the EPIC Sustainable Living Expo in Vancouver April 18-20. The multi-media coverage including audio podcasts, video clips, blog articles, and a vast collection of photos. In all, the crowd-sourced campaign featured over 70 eco-conscious businesses and sustainability minded organizations, plus numerous presenters and even a green episode of CBC s the Dragon s Den. The media dispat

Not so irrelevant 008
My latest roundup of links and tools I read blocked blogs I m gettin me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). What a great thing to hand out to administrators! Are you up to the challenge? The 2008 Comment Challenge is now on (and, hey, recognize a fantastic commenter!) Why K-12 educators shake their heads at academia Rick Hess perfectly captures one of my primary complaints about academia, which is that much of what we do is completely ina

Feed Advertising
Feed Advertising October 17th, 2007 RSS feeds have long been a location for advertisement for commercial products or services. We have also seen the arrival of feed powered ads where the content of an advert generally in widget format hosted on a website is provided via an RSS feed. A good example is the feed-powered advertising model on Gabe Rivera s popular news tracking site Techmeme. Although not new at the time (CNET, nooked, Pheedo, Feedburner and others had done this before) this

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Thanks for the Hits: April 2008 Traffic and Referral Numbers
Copyright 2006-2008 Clever Dude. All Rights Reserved. Now that April has come to a close, I ve tallied the (almost) final traffic numbers and determined that although not as big as March, April was still a success. I had over 26,000 visitors and over 40,000 pageviews, but the more important thing to note is that I ve consistently had 800-1000 visitors per day. It shows that Clever Dude is still growing in readership and maintaining steady growth. Subscriber Growth Speaking of readership, the

Thoughts on Blogs
So there was a roundtable on HBO last night hosted by Bob Costas and dealing with sports media. One topic covered was The Blog (duh duh duhhhhh). On the right: Buzz Bissinger, vocal critic of blogs. On the left: Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin, arguably the most influential blog in history. If you didn t watch it here s what you missed: Bissinger boiling to the point of hysteria over the flilth that is The Blog and how it s a disgrace to the written language, and so on and so forth