Posts Tagged ‘rss’

How to Be Awesome at Followup

Photo by Marloes Most people are unexceptional at following up: it sounds obvious, but it shouldn't be this way, because followup (I spell it as a single word) is key to combining smaller achievements into bigger ones. Actively following up on conversation is also a trait of people who're successful, focused, and relentless about living their dreams. Lofty yet elegant — and if you excel at followup, you can be… Continue reading

August 27 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: batch-processing, conversation, desktop, firefox, flow, followup, habit, honesty, process, rss, thread, time-management | 17 comments»

4 Tech Tips to Keep Ahead of the Game for New Entrepreneurs

Thinking about starting a business or trying to make some cash out of the web? Technology can enable people and it can just as easily distract. We've got a few tips for you to consider to cut down on those distractions and costs and get more done, more efficiently and more effectively. These tips all center on one thing: technology, whether it involves a specific device or just the way… Continue reading

June 19 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, gps, information, rss, skype, u, virtual assistant | 9 comments»

Saving Time on Routine Tasks: Optimized Reading

If I were to attempt to project the demographics that make up a typical lifehackista, according to the comments I see here and the roots of the phrase life hacks, I'd say that the average specimen spends a heck of a lot of time reading and writing, online and off, pretty much every single day. It surely doesn't apply to everyone who loves lifehacks, but then again, you're reading this now… Continue reading

May 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: optimization, reading, rss | 5 comments»

Do You Read Too Many Blogs?

Ades of AdesBlog.com has a theory: that top bloggers don't read other people's blogs. To test his theory, he asked several big-name bloggers -- Michael Arrington, Darren Rowse, Jeremy Schoemaker, and Yaro Starak -- about their blog-reading habits. Except for Darren Rowse, they all said they read few or no blogs; Rowse said he subscribes to 700 but only skims the whole list occasionally… Continue reading

April 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, Productivity, reading, rss, time-management | 36 comments»

Go on a High-Information Diet

Everywhere you turn these days people are complaining about too much information. The phrase "information overload" gets more than 1.5 million hits on Google. (This post makes it one more!) Everyone seems to think that if they could just reduce the flow of information into their lives, everything would be all better. They could finally relax and take a minute to catch up. My advice is the opposite: you don't… Continue reading

March 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: email, information, input, Management, rss | 31 comments»

Simplifying Your Information Intake

Productivity. We spend more time reading about it, talking about it, writing about it, thinking about it than actually making it happen. We complicate it with a disjointed system of hacks that don’t really work well together, then we decide to simplify it; every year, every month, it’s a vicious cycle for those of us addicted to the cool-aid of productivity and lifehacking that streams forth from the feed… Continue reading

March 7 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, feedreader, information, processing, rss | 13 comments»

My Struggles With Email Triage

I enjoy information, probably more than I should. I’ve managed to find a career path where information really is money — if I can break a story or create a new angle on it, I can eat at the end of the day. I’m constantly on the look out for new information that I can use. I get emails about all sorts of things, follow almost 300 blogs and… Continue reading

February 14 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: email, information, overload, Productivity, rss | 23 comments»

How Fast Is Your Feed Reading?

RSS feed readers themselves as well as subscription trimming and keyboard shortcuts are great ways to get your news and information quickly and easily. But do you know how much time you're saving? Are you saving time at all? Analysis is a good thing. Matt Cornell has gone one better and timed his feed reading. He's posted his results on his website. On curious thing I noticed: When I'm timing myself… Continue reading

August 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, rss | 1 comment»

Get More Out of Google Reader

If you've already gotten started with Google Reader, you're probably ready for some advanced tips and tricks to make better use of this rather full-featured RSS client. Here's what you need to do to become a real Google Reader power user. Get Organized Google Reader offers two effective ways to wrangle your feeds into order: folders and tags. (Google is inconsistent in its use of "folders" and "tags"… Continue reading

July 20 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: googlereader, howto, rss, shortcuts, tip | 30 comments»

How to Get Started with Google Reader

One of the core technologies behind the Web 2.0 "revolution" is RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Most websites that are updated with any sort of regularity have feeds of at least their headlines, and usually of full articles. Some sites also have secondary feeds listing their comments, videos, links, and other updates as well. Because RSS is so common these days, keeping up with the rush of information… Continue reading

July 13 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: googlereader, howto, rss, tip | 31 comments»

Using Yahoo Pipes To Translate RSS Feeds

It's a simple idea but something that could beef up the content in your feed reader. This simple tutorial from Webware about taking an RSS feed from a website in another language to your own and using Yahoo Pipes to translate it into another feed. BabelFish wouldn't do it. (It gave me an entertaining error message, though: "Insane value.") I was initially encouraged when I used Google Translate, which did… Continue reading

June 22 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, languages, rss | 1 comment»

120+ RSS Resources

Another list topping 100!? Have we the time? This is a great list from a great site, Mashable. A huge list of RSS-related resources. It covers mobile, on and offline RSS readers, feed to email converters, validators, plugins, stat programs, hacks and more. It's not a good list for beginners, which I think is important right now with RSS really gaining in popularity, but it's an excellent list to get… Continue reading

June 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, rss | 3 comments»

10+ Powerful Sales Concepts For Blogging Success

Selling Subscriptions to Your Blog If you're giving away subscriptions for free, why is it so hard to get subscribers? Well, because there is a cost to subscribing, and the cost is in the form of people's most valuable currency, time. If you want more RSS subscribers to your blog, then you will need to sell those subscriptions. How do you do that? Simple. You use the same sales… Continue reading

May 30 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blogging, branding, feed, rss, sales, subscription | 10 comments»

10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader

If you're like me, then you probably have a serious case of information overload. In today's web of information, it's easy to get caught up in the constant news stream. In fact, I have over 50 RSS feeds in my feed reader. Talk about a mental meltdown. So, what do you do when you wake up to thousands of new items in your feed reader, with hundreds of items which don't… Continue reading

May 10 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: google, googlereader, Productivity, rss | 66 comments»

Tame your RSS feed with FeedBuddy

If you've got a blog and you find yourself getting out of control with all the RSS buttons: Google, Bloglines, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. you can tuck all your RSS feeds into a nice little Javascript button called FeedBuddy. It's much easier to demonstrate...give the RSS button a click below and checkout how nicely it tucks your feeds into a generic RSS "holder." Feedbuddy will create the script for… Continue reading

April 9 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: javascript, rss, Technology | 1 comment»

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