Awakened Voice

Yesterday at the Future of Online Advertising Conference Brent Hill of FeedBurner made a seemingly innocuous comment that I really disagree with.
Brent stated that RSS wasn’t really for infrequent publishers. He indicated that RSS was more suited to frequent publishers. I disagree with his first assertion.
Offering RSS is good for any publisher for a variety [...]

I don’t think I’ve written anything about pinging on this blog yet. So now that Google has added the ability for you to ping their blog search engine this is as good a time as any to write about it.
For those of you not in the know on pinging I’ll provide a basic explanation. Certain [...]

This post will surely elicit some controversy as it dives into the social media hornets nest known as statistics.
I started thinking about stats again after seeing that the FeedBurner stats for TechCrunch indicated that blog eclipsing 100K readers. Interestingly enough that number has dipped to around 87K as I write this post.
First off, I want [...]

As I see it now there are three major threats to the growth and success of podcasting as a medium in the coming years.

Centralized RSS Feeds - A recent scare involving the country of China blocking RSS feeds from the Feedburner domain underscores the dangers of having too many feeds hosted at one source. If [...]

Stats are a critical part of the Social Media strategy of any business. Two companies that have helped blogger and podcasters keep track of their stats are FeedBurner and BlogBeat.
Today, the Feedburner blog announces that they have acquired BlogBeat. BlogBeat was a pay service and now their stats will be incorporated into FeedBurner’s Standard Stats [...]

Just this past week there was a major brouhaha in the world of podcasting. Podcasting powerhouse Podshow launched their long awaited PodShow+ podcasting community. Within hours of the site opening thousands of podcasters checked to see if they were listed and to investigate how their podcasts were being presented. That’s where the trouble started.
The ever [...]

My friends at LibSyn and FeedBurner have issued their own independent reports that provide a very good insight on the adoption of podcasting.
The FeedBurner Report
The FeedBurner Report shows that “podcast circulation is consistently growing nearly [...]

One of the challenges that many folks new to social media face is figuring out the best way to subscribe to RSS feeds. There are a myriad of choices for subscription and it stands to reason that people could get frustrated by all the options.
The best option initially might be for people to have the [...]

Steve Rubel and The Social Software Weblog report that Newsweek (in partnership with MSNBC it seems) has launched a branded, online RSS feed aggregator powered by Newsgator.
The aggregator is seeded with a variety of Newsweek RSS feeds that are published using Feedburner. You can also add your own content to the reader if you like.
My [...]