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Monday, July 25
Mon, Jul 25 Morning Featured Article
by
tecHead
on Mon 25 Jul 2005 08:00 AM EDT
RSS Reader is a life raft saving us from getting lost in a sea of useless information.
By Jesse S. Somer
One of the main problems with the Internet these days is the fact that there is so much information out there; it can
be quite hard to find the particular knowledge that you’re looking for. It can often feel like you’re surfing waves
of thick chocolate fudge sauce and your honeycomb board has a crack that’s getting wider by the second. Over stimulus
is the issue here; you wanted to read opinions from music enthusiasts about music, and every second blog article had
to do with new punk hairdo trends and which band has the coolest tattoos. How can we find only the content we’re
looking for without getting bogged down in miscellaneous information that erodes both time and patience?
The answer is in context. There’s now a way to sift through the cacophony of babble and wisdom to find exactly what
you’re looking for. Instead of having to join clubs and organizations and receive their newsletters via email at
their convenience you can now have control over what you receive. Having to search through millions of blogs to find
the few you like has now become an obsolete task. The new system is called an RSS Reader: ‘Rich site summary’ or
‘really simple syndication’ are the common definitions of this software. The process begins by signing up to receive
automatic updates from blogs and other Web sites that distribute summaries of their latest postings to your reader.
You then find which ones you like and delete the rest. You can keep adding new sites until you have literally
hundreds of informative connections in your areas of specific interest.
Another great aspect of the RSS Reader program is the fact that you can put in key words of interest and the computer
will surf the Web for you and add new blogs and web sites to your list, rating them according to the terms you have
selected. You then scan over these and add the ones you feel are relevant, deleting the detritus. Eventually you will
have an email-style formatted file where you can search through all your favourite writers, news, and topics’ latest
information. Then you also have functions such as ‘comment’ so you can automatically share your input with your
fellow humans. Or, you can reply to the ‘messages’ and actually communicate with the producers of the ideas.
This will really help to decentralise the information sharing processes of the current top-down mass communication
systems like the media. We can hear multiple opinions on an issue and give our own views, instead of being told one
story that is heavily affected by the company’s personal perspective of the situation.
So, you can see this has the potential for something quite big. Less time wasted, finding all the knowledge you’re
looking for, and sharing your opinion and meeting others similar to yourself has never been so easy. The RSS Reader
is a knife cutting away all the useless packaging, revealing the true content of the gift of the Internet.
Jesse S. Somer
M6.Net (http://M6.Net)
http://www.m6.net (http://www.m6.net)
Jesse S. Somer is a simple-minded fool discovering the hidden opportunities and magical possibilities that reside in
the world of the Internet. Come join him on this adventure.
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tHg News
by
tecHead
on Mon 25 Jul 2005 06:00 AM EDT
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ZDNetThe open source business process
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ZDNet - 9 hours ago
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numerous mistakes in my first
blog
entry about this, so you you might call this story a result of open source journalism.). The open source
business
process is
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Marc Canter's Clue
Corante
all 3 related »
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Jonathan Steel's Blog: HP slims down
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Silicon.com, UK - 28 minutes ago
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It hasn't got the service organisation to compete with IBM (
business
consulting services particularly), and it doesn't control its own technology now, being
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Corporate America leaps into the 'blogosphere'
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Daily Review Online, CA - 9 minutes ago
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center or no, the subject of corporate blogging has raised enough interest to become the theme of
business
conferences, such as the
Blog
Business
Summit set
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Happy Customers Blog, Too
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WebProNews, KY - 9 hours ago
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in so many Marriott's I've come to value inside information on the company for both
business
and leisure purposes. My hope is that this
blog
will become a fine
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Quiddity Launches Blog Dedicated to Credit Card Offers and ...
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Emediawire (press release), WA - 15 hours ago
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Quiddity saw that there was a definitive need for an extensive
blog
dedicated to
...
and email marketing services to many small to medium sized
business
in the
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Finally, ex-temps may get their due
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Seattle Times, United States - 1 hour ago
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Byron is also an organizer of the
Blog
Business
Summit in San Francisco next month, a conference explicitly aimed at corporations and PR agencies keen to learn
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DM News12 Information Offers That Generate Leads With BTB Direct Mail
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DM News, NY - 4 hours ago
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One vital thing to bear in mind with BTB direct mail offers is that
business
buyers are readers.
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He also has a BTB direct mail
blog
at www.sharpecopy.com/
blog
.
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Boeing developing strategies for working with Web loggers
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Everett Herald, WA - 2 hours ago
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But since then, Boeing has tweaked Baesler's
blog
, and added another - Flight Test
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Business
bloggers such as Broback say there are several ways companies can
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Search B-EYE-Network.com
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B-EYE-Network, CO - 1 hour ago
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Colin has written numerous articles on
business
intelligence and enterprise
business
integration, and has an expert channel and
blog
on the B-Eye-Network.
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Wal-Mart The new civil rights champion, or the worst offender?
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Yes! Weekly, NC - 1 hour ago
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David Hoggard that Linder had acted presumptuously, Carmany wrote on her internet
blog
: “Exactly! That’s why I question his
business
operations, creating
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tHg News
by
tecHead
on Sun 24 Jul 2005 06:00 PM EDT
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Blogging about job has risks
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SunHerald.com, MS - 13 hours ago
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"Employees should not believe that they can
blog
about the
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for the bad news by buying lunch," a public setting is not the place to discuss
business
of such a
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Quiddity Launches Blog Dedicated to Credit Card Offers and ...
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Emediawire (press release), WA - 3 hours ago
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Quiddity saw that there was a definitive need for an extensive
blog
dedicated to
...
and email marketing services to many small to medium sized
business
in the
...
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Media Column: A Harry Potter Blog
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andPOP, Canada - 14 hours ago
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Well, actually, by “line” I mean just myself and since it is six pm, the store is still actually open for normal
business
but I thought that I should get a
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Write All About It (at Your Own Risk)
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New York Times, United States - 23 hours ago
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And Mike Masnick, chief executive of Techdirt, a technology and
business
news
blog
based in Belmont, Calif., said employees whose blogs defend their employers
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Corante"Speak what you feel, not what you ought to say." William ...
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Corante - 7 hours ago
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for online tools in
business
communication. She follows social technologies and their impact on the way people interact. Her personal
blog
is Blogaholics.ca.
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POSTER GIRL RAPPED: But blogger Wendy Cheng says:
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Electric New Paper, Singapore - 5 hours ago
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blog
entries, left crude remarks on her
blog
, and accessed her e-mail account, deleting some 3,000 e-mails, some of which included important
business
contacts.
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Wal-Mart The new civil rights champion, or the worst offender?
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Yes! Weekly, NC - 11 hours ago
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David Hoggard that Linder had acted presumptuously, Carmany wrote on her internet
blog
: “Exactly! That’s why I question his
business
operations, creating
...
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Search B-EYE-Network.com
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B-EYE-Network, CO - 21 minutes ago
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Colin has written numerous articles on
business
intelligence and enterprise
business
integration, and has an expert channel and
blog
on the B-Eye-Network.
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CoranteMarc Canter's Clue
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Corante - 5 hours ago
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trends of our time, the rise of the open source
business
process. Joi has put a lot of money into SixApart, which runs Movable Type, which powers this
blog
.
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The ethics of ‘outing’: National debate resonates here
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TheNewsTribune.com, WA - 11 hours ago
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to Michael Rogers of Washington, DC, who last year started a
blog
, www.blogACTIVE
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is and whatever their sexual preference is, that is absolutely their
business
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Sun, Jul 24 Evening Featured Article
by
tecHead
on Sun 24 Jul 2005 01:00 PM EDT
Rural Route 2 News Celebrates First Year of Publication
By LeAnn R. Ralph
Rural Route 2 News, the monthly e-mail newsletter from ruralroute2.com, recently completed its first full year of
publication.
The newsletter, which officially began as a monthly publication in January 2004, is written and published by LeAnn R.
Ralph, author of the books, "Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm)" (trade paperback; August
2003) -- "Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (trade paperback; October 2004) -- "Preserve Your Family History
(A Step-by-Step Guide for Interviewing Family Members and Writing Oral Histories)" (e-book; April 2004).
Each newsletter contains a story related to some aspect of the author's childhood growing up on a small family farm or
the author's experience of living in a rural area today. The newsletter also includes several recipes each month, as
well as notes about the author's experiences over the past month, suggestions to check out certain blog entries for
other good stories, opportunities for "sneak previews" of Ralph's next book project, and occasionally, opportunities
to sign up to win free copies of Ralph's books.
"It's tremendous fun to write the newsletter," Ralph said. "Before I started sending out a monthly publication in
January of 2004, I sent out stories from time to time for at least a year before that."
According to conventional Internet marketing wisdom, newsletters should be published daily or weekly. Ralph decided to
publish her newsletter monthly.
"I get so much junk e-mail myself that it's difficult to find the things I want to read among the trash that comes
in," she said. "I'm thinking other people probably have enough clutter in their in-boxes too."
Another consideration also contributed to her decision to publish monthly.
"If it comes down to putting out inferior writing just to send the newsletter weekly as opposed to putting out a
monthly newsletter with a better quality of writing and better content, I would rather put out a monthly newsletter,"
Ralph said. "After all, it does have my name on it."
What do subscribers think of the newsletter and the monthly publication schedule?
"I know you send this out to a lot of people every month, but when I get it, I feel like it's written just for me,"
one subscriber wrote in an e-mail.
"I wish there were more things like this on the Internet. More things with good, down-to-earth stories and recipes,"
said another subscriber when Ralph talked to her on the telephone about a book order.
"I look forward to your newsletter each month," another subscriber wrote in an e-mail.
"I didn't grow up on a farm, but I would love to live in the country some day, and your newsletter helps me feel
closer to my dream," another subscriber wrote.
"I love your stories. Keep up the good work," wrote still another subscriber.
To read sample chapters and blog entries, and to see back issues of Rural Route 2 News and/or to sign up for the
newsletter, visit -- http://ruralroute2.com
Contact Information:
LeAnn R. Ralph
E6689 970th Ave.
Colfax WI 54730
(715) 962-3368
mailto:bigpines@ruralroute2.com
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LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the books "Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (September 2004) and "Christmas
in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm) (July 2003) and "Preserve Your Family History (A Step-by-Step Guide
for Interviewing Family Members and Writing Oral Histories)" (e-book; April 2004). For more information about the
books, visit http://ruralroute2.com
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