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Blogs and RSS – Trawling the Internet for Meaning
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AgendaAgenda
• What’s a Blog?• What’s RSS?• Why is any of this interesting?
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What’s a Blog?What’s a Blog?
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BlogsBlogs
• Blogs are– Personal Publishing– Getting to be very influential
• Infoworld (technology)• Scoble (MS Evangelist)• InstaPundit, Andrew Sullivan (politics)• Etc
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What’s a Blog?What’s a Blog?
• I started to noticeblogs about 2 yearsago
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What’s a BlogWhat’s a Blog
• My first thought was– How hard could it be?– So I set out to implement my own blogging
tools– This turned out to involve a lot more than I
thought
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What’s a BlogWhat’s a Blog
An Ad-hoc editorial page
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What’s a BlogWhat’s a Blog
• At first, I had noidea how this wouldwork
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Searching forReaders
Searching forReaders
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InterestInterest
• The first few months,readership was light
RSS Came up. What?
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InterestInterest
• RSS
• http://backend.userland.com/rss
• It turns out that Syndication is very important
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RSS andAggregation
RSS andAggregation
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RSSRSS
• RSS is an XML format– A channel– Items in a channel
• Title• Link• Description
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RSS ChannelRSS Channel
- <channel>- <title>Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants</title>
- <link>http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView</link<
- <description>Cincom Product Manager</description>
- <webMaster>[email protected]</webMaster>
- <lastBuildDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:21:27 EDT</lastBuildDate>
- </channel>
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RSS ItemRSS Item
- <item>- <title>Another Smalltalk?</title>
- <link>http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3232634632</link>
- <description>Alan Knight's <ahref="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3232543412">comment here</a> led me to <ahref="http://www.ambrai.com/">ambrai.com</a> - not a lot ofdetails, but it looks like a native Macintosh Smalltalk is busy beingborn!</description>
- <category>smalltalk</category>
- <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:03:52 EDT</pubDate>
- </item>
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RSSRSS
• The format is a rich, extensible way to convey aheadline service
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RSSRSS
• So I added an RSS Feed
• Traffic went up!
• Still had no idea what itwas good for
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AggregatorsAggregators
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BottomFeederBottomFeeder
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AggregatorsAggregators
• There are tons of them
• http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000877.php
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AggregatorsAggregators
• Working on BottomFeeder drove theblog, and vice-versa
• As we added features toBottomFeeder, I added features tothe blog
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Why Should YouCare?
Why Should YouCare?
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What’s it Good ForWhat’s it Good For
• You Control the Vertical
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What’s it Good For?What’s it Good For?
• An opt-in audience
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What’s it Good For?What’s it Good For?
• We use it extensively at Cincom– PR feed– Feeds for our Bug reporting– Feeds for our Wikis– Feeds for our Version control tool
• There’s support for this for CVS as well
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Product ManagersProduct Managers
• Publicize your product– Tech features– What problem it solves– Who should want it– MS does a lot of this – 400+ Softies are
blogging now– We do a lot for Cincom Smalltalk – there are
14 bloggers for CST athttp://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs
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Technical LeadsTechnical Leads
• What the product does• How it does it• Gain ‘tech cred’
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MarketersMarketers
• What does yourcompany do?– Connect with actual
people
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SummarySummary
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SummarySummary
• So what’s all this being used for– Publicity– Project Management– Marketing– Community Building– Communication
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Contact InfoContact Info
• James Robertson– [email protected]– [email protected]
• BottomFeeder– http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder
• Blog– http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/CincomSmalltalkWiki/
CSTBlogModule