Archive for December, 2006

Stormhoek and blogging

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Stormhoek has had a big and very public year in the blogosphere (the blogging world) and in the public eye. Not only have bloggers taken notice of this South African Wine company, but so have customers.
Hugh Macloed, of gapingvoid, has been instrumental in creating this success - in educating Stormhoek on blogging, assisting their creative, [...]

RSS growing but hard to understand

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Today, Reuters released an article titled “Untangle the World Wide Web with RSS” that does a great job of explaining RSS.
RSS (”Really Simple Syndication”) makes keeping up with news easy. You can have all your favorite websites come to you on one simple page - instead of going to each site. You just use [...]

Feed Icons

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Making your website RSS friendly and giving your readers/customers easy ways to subscribe to your content are crucial elements to marketing yourself.
Clearly identifying your RSS feed with Feed Icons is important. The standard for a web feed icon is this:

This standard helps to eliminate confusion, clearly identify your RSS feed and make your content [...]

Reddit.com for Content Promotion

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

There are many services out there that allow you to submit your posts or the posts of others and subsequently vote on the popularity of the posts. For example, Digg.com is one of the largest content contribution sites, and is very technology-centric in focus. However, Digg frowns on self-submission, which makes it hard to use [...]