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Full story: RSS subscription surprises in Feedburner stats
If you use Feedburner for distribution of your RSS feed, it’s worth paying attention to the useful statistics about your feed such as how many people subscribe to it and which RSS reader they use. Even if you only use FB’s free standard stats rather than the paid-for TotalStats Pro service, you’ll find some extremely useful information. I just updated the list of subscription options to this blog and while at Feedburner, I reviewed my feed stats for the first…
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Full story: The difficulty for politicians of normal, real and authentic
In his keynote address at the Gnomedex tech conference in Seattle on Friday, US senator and highly-seasoned politician John Edwards had this to say about politicans’ polish in an age of informality: […] “The problem is that we’re so trained and so conditioned over a long period of time that being normal and real and authentic requires you to shed that conditioning,” Edwards said of politicians. “It is not an easy thing to do.” Edwards then alluded to the next…
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Full story: Dean Koontz on movies
A pleasant discovery at the weekend – Dean Koontz, one of my favourite ‘dark side’ fiction writers, started a podcast last month. I found his second episode on iTunes, recorded just a few days ago, and immediately subscribed. I’ve been reading Dean Koontz’ novels since about 1990 and finished reading his last one in paperback, Velocity, on my flight home from the US last month. One of my all-time favourites is Hideaway which was made into an awful film about ten years…
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Full story: Down and out in Germany
Beckham off with injuries. Rooney gets a red card. 0-0 at 90 minutes. 0-0 at the end of the extra-play 30 minutes. Then a nail biting end of penalty shoot-outs. The ticker-text says it all. Nope, I don’t want to talk about it. Plenty of others do, though.
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Full story: Podcast Awards nominations are open
The second annual Podcast Awards is up and accepting nominations, and your FIR co-hosts would be delighted if you’d nominate us in the “Business” category. These awards are presented at the Portable Media and Podcast Expo in Ontario, California, on September 29 and 30. Both Neville and Shel will be speaking at the event. So why are we pimping for your votes with this particular awards program? The Podcast Awards do use the same technique as some of the others…
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