Tag: LINKBLOG

Ever with there was a way to track popular news/blog posts by following Google Reader shared item feeds without, you know, subscribing to dozens of feeds? The big problem with link blogs and shared item feeds is that if you subscribe to a bunch, there's a pretty good chance you're going to wind up seeing the same articles over and over. ReadBurner makes it possible to track shared items from ...

If you believe the claims in an apparently "leaked" video from Google, there are a few updates headed Google Reader's way. More social features are coming, there will be a way for Reader to recommend feeds to users, and Google might add the ability to comment on shared items. That last one caught the attention of Duncan Riley over at TechCrunch. The way he sees it, allowing users to share articles ...

Tumblr is a new tumblelog service whose FAQs probably describe itself a nutshell the best: "To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks." It has the look, feel and functionality of a stream-of-consciousness blog, instead of the typical structure and theme/agenda that the traditional blogging platform has (sidenote: can we really refer to an aspect of blogging as ...

I run a linkblog that mirrors my del.icio.us links via a contrived set of PHP scripts I whipped up one night and which quits working every couple months. SlashLinks looks like a much better solution. It's a tool whose tagline is "Own Your Del.icio.us Links!" that scoops up your del.icio.us bookmarks and republishes them on your own web site with a template of your own design. It rolls ...