There’s a report on silicon.com this morning about details of 6,500 Floridan HIV patients being emailed by mistake to 800 medical staff:
The list was accidentally attached to an email by a Palm Beach County Health Department statistician and sent to hundreds of health workers who weren’t normally granted access to it, according to a report […]

Ok, we’re quite very pleased with this - we think it’s a cool use of blogs, webfeeds, podcasting and an iPod Shuffle in a real live business scenario. We’d be interested to know what people think - comments welcome.
The scenario:
Our client is the classic Type-A personality, time-poor, stressed executive with too much to […]

Richard Allan is a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, and has a (deserved) reputation as one of the few UK politicians who a) cares about or b) knows anything about technology. He’s also a fully paid-up member of the awkward squad when it comes to chasing answers to questions about how government is […]

This is an interesting description of how webfeeds differ from email (and if we had a pound for every time we’ve had this question from clients!) from Ross Mayfield:

The Pull Model of attention management puts the user back in control of what consumes their time. Email notifications at the interval of their choosing, RSS […]

Getting bored with using webfeeds to read blogs? Then here’s the Cutting Through Guide To 10 Cool Things You Can Do With Webfeeds

Get a new slant on the news

Get a new perspective on the world by subscribing to a webfeed from the world’s most respected broadcaster. The BBC offers webfeeds for […]

Courtesy of Alex Barnett (an Online Customer Experience Manager at Microsoft, whatever one of those might be), here’s a useful matrix comparison of email and RSS for direct marketing purposes, with links to relevant articles.

He makes an interesting point - that the debate needs to move away from RSS-versus-email and towards where RSS can fit […]

There’s an interesting post from David Sklar over at the O’Reilly Weblogs on how he wants to replace email with webfeeds - in particular situations where a company is communicating with him on a regular basis, for example in a billing scenario.

Inevitably there’s a counter-argument - ‘RSS is not the cure for everything‘, for example. […]

Found on the excellent Ideal Government site, the clearest explanation I’ve seen so far why you should be providing RSS feeds on your site and for your data - in plain English:

Having a way to get regular updates from a source you trust and want to follow without remembering to check it regularly is certainly […]

Courtesy of Steve Rubel, here’s an ingenious way of turning non-RSS enabled news sources into RSS feeds, using GoogleNews and Gnews2RSS. Exceedingly useful for keeping up with those sites that haven’t got around to smelling the coffee and turning on their RSS feeds.

A similar way of achieving the same ends is through NewsIsFree, who […]

This is a test post to check the webfeeds…

Forgive the rant for a moment, if you will, but this posting at Master New Media is a symptom of something that seems to have become rather worryingly prevalent at the moment - namely that we’re all getting just a little bit up ourselves about blogging and RSS and the ‘death of mainstream media’ and […]

As there’s an RSS theme to today’s postings, here’s a couple of links to some resources that may help answer the question “What is RSS, then?”

The BBC has been making extensive use of RSS for its news and current affairs for some time now, and they have a page that explains the how, what and […]

It seems that RSS - Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summaries, depending on your point of view - is starting to make it onto the corporate IT radar. eWeek, a well-respected enterprise IT publication from the Ziff-Davis stable has just published a slew of stories on the subject - a summary of […]

Apologies if you’ve been experiencing difficulties getting updates from our webfeeds of late. We’ve been been experimenting with Feedburner as a way of getting some statistics on the readership of this blog, but unfortunately it looks like they’ve been having some problems over the last few weeks.

It’s a beta service, so some teething […]

Most people reading blogs will undoubtedly be doing so via RSS (Webfeeds). But how many people realise that RSS (Webfeeds) can be used to gather and send information to you on whatever topic interests you - clients, competitors, trends, news, and even comments on your own blog!
We are increasingly using RSS (Webfeeds) as a means […]

By Dave Winer
RSS:
This is the inaugural post for a new website devoted to the community of people who create and use RSS. It’s just a beginning.
Worth watching for some creative uses of RSS I am sure.

Just found a new search site that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from a search query.
FindForward
Simply enter a keyword and select ?Get RSS? from the drop down list. FindFoward then returns the RSS feed URL that you can utilise in your RSS news reader / aggregator.
And it would appear to work […]

How neat is this!
RSS to Outlook - Lockergnome’s RSS & Atom Tips

Something so simple could be so powerful…if used in a focused and targeted manner.
This article by Amy at Contentious highlights how a small CRM vendor is integrating RSS into the customer communication loop.
Custom Webfeeds: Content to Support Customer Relationships: Contentious Weblog
But having spent squillions on a crm system how many companies have anything left in […]

From The RSS Resource Blog.
They say that golf is a waste of a good walk (don’t necessarily agree myself, though on a bad day it certainly feels that way!). But I do feel that way about inevitable intrusion of ads into my rss reading.
See what I mean:
“We realize that for many early adopters, ads […]