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Comment on Calling all journalists on Twitter by Todd Hewitt

Todd Hewitt — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:26:06 +0000

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Comment on RSS readers reviewed by Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:51:21 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to do this post. People ask me about RSS and I honestly can’t think of anything besides Google Reader. This’ll get referenced.

Comment on RSS readers reviewed by Danny Sanchez

Danny Sanchez — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:19:52 +0000

Hey Megan, try the secret Bloglines Beta instead of plain vanilla Bloglines. It’s my RSS reader of choice: http://beta.bloglines.com

Comment on RSS readers reviewed by RSS readers reviewed / BeatBlogging.org | Megan Taylor: Freelance web developer, multimedia producer and journalist

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:10:53 +0000

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Comment on RSS readers reviewed by Megan Taylor

Megan Taylor — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:54:48 +0000

@Melanie,

Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes it’s hard to explain technical things in non-technical terms.

I knew about the Google Reader extension, but the link is kind of buried on the PostRank site. Thanks for highlighting that.

Comment on RSS readers reviewed by Melanie Baker

Melanie Baker — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:23:54 +0000

Hi Megan,

Thanks for including us in such fine company.

Just as a clarification so folks aren’t disappointed, postrank.com and its features aren’t really an RSS reader themselves, nor are they meant to be. They’re intended to work with your reader to save you time and help you Read What Matters, as we like to say.

PostRank uses online social engagement with content to filter and rank it, so in the feeds you’re subscribed to, you can see what others have engaged with — leaving comments, tweeting, bookmarking, etc. — and if you choose, based on that, determine what’s worth your time to keep up with. More on that: http://www.postrank.com/postrank

Folks can import their feeds into postrank.com manually or by OPML file and filter them by PostRank score and keyword, and use tags to organize groups of feeds, even aggregate them into one larger feed. That feed, or all the individuals, can then be exported to the person’s favourite feed reader, with all the noise automatically filtered out.

Or, for folks already using Google Reader, you can get the PostRank filtering built right in with our Google Reader Extension: http://gr.postrank.com.

Hope that all makes sense.

Comment on Screencast: How to use RSS and Google Reader for journalism by RSS readers reviewed | BeatBlogging.Org

RSS readers reviewed | BeatBlogging.Org — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:53:57 +0000

[...] We have a screencast from earlier this year on using RSS and Google Reader. [...]

Comment on WSJ looks to the past for new social media policy by What problems do social media pose for an organization’s communication strategy? « Explorations in New Media from the Schieffer School of Journalism at TCU

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:13:31 +0000

[...] the summer, there was a great deal of discussion after several large organizations – the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and others – released their policies. That debate was [...]

Comment on Journalists use RSS to track rivals, news, tweets & other info by RSS, Competitive Intelligence 2.0 Plumbing | Better Closer

RSS, Competitive Intelligence 2.0 Plumbing | Better Closer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:45:46 +0000

[...] is a great example of Journalist using RSS for competitive intelligence (hat tip: @davewiner the father of [...]

Comment on Journalists use RSS to track rivals, news, tweets & other info by megan.taylor

megan.taylor — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:58:09 +0000

@Xavier,

I use RSS to avoid email alerts, so something like that would be pretty cool. Most of the time, Twitter scrolls by and I don’t care if I miss things. But to track conferences and other events, this would be a pretty cool tool.