Thu 07 Apr. 2005

RSS Advertising, Coming Fast

Dave Morgan of ClickZ Network:

If the new RSS delivery, ad insertion, and tracking tools from companies such as FeedBurner and Syndicate IQ can work at this level, and as RSS usage continues to grow this will quickly become a big market. Traffic is already there. Ads are already there. Now, it appears, the tools are there as well.

This is a hot space to watch. It won’t be the next coming of search. It won’t even be the next coming of commercial e-mail or rich media. It will, however, become an important supplemental revenue stream to a lot of content owners and small publishers, particularly bloggers, where it’s quite common three-quarters or more of their audiences use RSS feeds, rather than the Web pages, to view content.

(via Micro Persuasion)

Google and the Wrath of the Blogosphere

Wired News: Bloggers Pitch Fits Over Glitches

Perhaps the most succinct flame came from a guy named Joaquin, who screeched through his modem: “HAD AWESOME POST, GOT DELETED! FUCK YOU BLOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGER! Go to hell.”

(via Scripting News)

Update:

While we’re at Wired: The Need for Feed(s)

… several newspapers are about to take on news aggregators at their own game, offering their own branded newsreaders.

Vote for your Top Podcast

topcast.org:

Nominations for Thirty Top Podcast Category Awards Are Now Being Accepted

(via Google Alerts)

Open EU Constitution Launch

talkeuro.com:

a new website designed to help the citizens of the European Union to understand the proposed constitution. The site launches with English and French as the two initial languages, there are five more waiting in the wings. Our intention is to have a version for all 25 countries in the EU as soon as possible.

an open version of the European Constitution that will form the basis of the lives of the 450 million plus people in Europe for the next few decades. Here you can read the document, link to it, annotate it, see what others say about it and join in an effort to make our summary of it.

Good value!

Congratulations and best wishes!

A Company Where All 110 Employees Have A Blog

CorporateBloggingBlog reports on the Dutch company, Macaw:

… all employees have their own internal blog. They get it when they get their network, intranet and e-mail account. Not only do they have blogs — they use them. 90 percent of the 110 employees are internal bloggers.