Tag Archives: rss

Paul Bradshaw’s guide to Yahoo!Pipes

By Julie Starr | Published: March 19, 2009
Paul Bradshaw of onlinejournalism.com has done a nice job explaining how to use Yahoo Pipes, which is a tool that lets you aggregate and bundle RSS feeds in ways that suit your needs. He's previously posted about how to use it for journalism:
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Twitter, RSS and other must-haves for journalists

By Julie Starr | Published: January 19, 2009
Another top ten list, this time of things journalists should know going into 2009. It's from www.journalism.co.uk and there's nothing here I wouldn't also recommend a journalist getting their head around. 1. How to use Twitter to build communities, cover your beat, instigate and engage in conversations. 2. How to use RSS feeds to gather news...
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Common Craft on its success and business models

By Julie Starr | Published: December 30, 2008
ReadWriteWeb have done a nice end-of-year profile on Common Craft, the folk who make the 'In Plain English' videos. It's a nice read and the part about why Common Craft decided to move away from its custom video service into its current licencing business model is interesting:
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RSS in Plain English

By Julie Starr | Published: December 3, 2008
RSS in Plain English is a great introduction to RSS and using RSS readers to keep track of news and blog posts. From www.commoncraft.com.
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Less is more when updating news on Twitter

By Julie Starr | Published: April 17, 2008
It's not just me, then. I see Jeff Jarvis is also getting annoyed with the way news companies are dumping multiple headlines on Twitter in big batches, with the result that they fill out people's Twitter boxes.
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