One immediate user benefit from last month’s acquisition of FeedDemon by Newsgator is that a new version (beta) of FeedDemon’s FeedStation podcatcher was released yesterday which supports NewsGator Online and, soon, NewsGator Outlook Edition: […] FeedDemon has had cool podcasting support since v1.5, with a helper application called FeedStation. FeedStation did the work of downloading […]
Category: Weblog Tools
iTunes podcatcher already makes an impact
The release of iTunes 4.9 a few days ago and its podcatching capability is already having an effect on downloads of For Immediate Release, the bi-weekly business podcast that Shel and I present. Just looking at the download and referrer stats in LibSyn, our file hosting service, shows a very interesting difference already in which […]
TypePad gets ready to roll out new features
If your blog is hosted by TypePad, this would be a good weekend to give your blog a break: […] The TypePad team suggests that since this is a holiday weekend, you call it a day at 5PM, head to your local watering hole and raise a glass to webloggers everywhere. When you return to […]
TypePad’s new authentication features in place
Six Apart is working very quickly indeed this weekend to roll out the new features in TypePad that I mentioned yesterday as I can already see some of them in place. For starters, they’ve increased the file storage allowance to 500Mb (up from 100Mb) and increased the monthly bandwidth allowance to 5Gb (up from 3Gb). […]
TypeKey authentication enabled
Last night, I enabled TypeKey authentication for commenting on this blog. If you go to any post to leave a comment, you’ll notice this new line of text above the form fields you fill in with your name, etc: If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In It’s purely voluntary – if […]
New FeedDemon 1.6 beta 1 available
If you’re a registered user of the FeedDemon RSS aggregator for Windows, you should definitely take a look at the new version 1.6 beta 1, now available for download. I installed it last night and I have to say it seems very good indeed for a first beta. Loads of small changes and enhancements – […]
Manage your online presence with Jyve for Skype
If you use the Skype internet phone service, you know that it’s a very useful tool for easy communication that can save you considerable sums of money on your phone bill compared to ‘normal’ phone services. The example I posted in January, where I commented on the astonishingly-low cost of a 35-minute conference call, is […]
Comparing blog publishing offerings
The Online Journalism Review has a good primer and handy comparison chart of some of the major blog publishing platforms, which should be helpful to anyone thinking about starting a blog or thinking about switching platforms. Platforms reviewed and compared are Blogger, TypePad, BlogWare, WordPress, Movable Type and Expression Engine. As a TypePad user, I […]
Constantly waiting for TypePad
‘Waiting for TypePad…’ is a phrase I have now memorized when it comes to publishing posts to any of my blogs. This last week has been exceptionally frustrating. I write posts offline using ecto for Windows, currently version 1.7.5, and publish them to TypePad. It should work, but it doesn’t. What’s been happening is that, […]
Interview: Constantin Basturea – August 10, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville enjoyed a 45-minute conversation with Constantin Basturea, the man behind The New PR Wiki and Global PR Blog Weeks I and II. About our conversation partner: Originally from Romania, Constantin Basturea (pronounced BahshTUra) came to the US when his wife opted to pursue […]
The spammers win for now
I’ve been resisting this for weeks, but I’ve succumbed – this blog now has moderation in place for comments and trackbacks. This is now possible to do on a TypePad blog as a result of the service enhancements introduced by Six Apart last month. The final straw for me was having to spend over an […]
How reliable is the Top 500 blogs list?
The Feedster search engine has just introduced a monthly listing of the Top 500 blogs. It’s an interesting list, which I find especially remarkable as one of my blogs is included. At number 221 in the list, NevOn Experimental appears: Flattering but remarkable. That blog is one which I post to quite infrequently, on average […]
More than ego-stroking the Top 500
ClickZ News: Feedster is floating a new top 500 list of blogs, ranked according to their accumulation of inbound links. Media buyers say they’re watching the list, but they disagree on its value as a consideration tool for ad placements in blogs. The “Feedster 500,” which challenges the long-standing Technorati 100 list and claims to […]
WordPress starts hosted blogging service
Announced at Blog Business Summit in San Francisco today – WordPress, the open-source (and free) blog publishing platform, has started a hosted blog publishing service. To participate, you need an invitation. What will the offering be? Free, like Blogger? Paid, like TypePad? No details yet but undoubtedly more will emerge very soon. (Hat tip: DL […]
The importance of headlines
One of the neat things things you can easily do with FeedDemon, the desktop RSS aggregator for Windows, is note items of interest in the various feeds you monitor and quickly mark them for later action such as blogging. This is especially useful if you want to create a link post, as many business bloggers […]
Movable Type 3.2 launched
After months of beta testing, Six Apart launched version 3.2 of its Movable Type blog publishing and management system yesterday. Boasting a wide range of new and improved features, this version offers static or dynamic publishing; built-in support for multiple authors, blogs, categories, and templates; automatic archiving and publishing of XML feeds; and better platform […]
New Movable Type disappoints
I’ve spent a bit of time this weekend upgrading my Movable Type experimental blog to the latest MT version 3.2 released on 25 August. Installation of the new version was pretty smooth, no real issues with it, thanks to the excellent installation guide in the new 3.2 manual. I do have issues, though, with expectations […]
Blog spam is relentless
Since I implemented comment and trackback moderation on this blog a couple of weeks ago, the amount of spam I’ve been getting has steadily increased. Now it’s averaging between three and five such hits every day. May not sound much at all in the context of the overall blogosphere, but that adds up to at […]
Technorati’s new Blog Finder beta
A trackback overnight from Josh Hallett took me to his initial commentary of the Technorati Blog Finder, a new service launched in beta yesterday. This service does look interesting – Technorati say it will enable you to find blogs that frequently write about subjects you’re interested in by searching on key words. Tags, in other […]
Older posts now showing up in Google Blog Search
When Google blog search launched in September, it only indexed blog posts from about mid 2005: […] Since Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, it will only include items that have been posted since it started indexing a given blog. For most blogs, that will be around June 2005, or the time at […]