Social media sites have gone mainstream over the past few years, and it's affected web developers everywhere.

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It was Nieman reunion time last weekend, and the honored veterans of journalism were gathered in the very shadow of Harvard. Our panel was called: "Voices from the New World of Journalism."

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Howard Rheingold describes the process he used to design a Social Media classroom in this 8 minute video.

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Coool new rss reader for MSNBC. click launch and then add channels int he upper left. IT's really well done.

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MSNBC launches Spectra; you've really gotta take a look...

I just noticed a short post in UX magazine on the beta of MSNBC visual newsreader and decided to investigate a little further. Spectra I clicked through to the beta site for Spectra Visual Newsreader, with the tagline: A Fuller Spectrum of News.

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For New 'Viners: How to Seed Newsvine Effectively

Although Newsvine offers some excellent original content, there are many great news and analysis pieces across the web that we'd like to discuss. These gems, though, can be hidden in the muck of the web.

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It's 2008, why doesn't every single page on the web offer an RSS feed? We have no idea, but we do have a nifty workaround — Dapper.net. Using Dapper you can set up your own page scraping tool to gather data even when a page doesn't offer an RSS feed.

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So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader subscribers around a particular blog.

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How to use RSS feeds to create your own personalized news feed as well an overview of of the different reader options.

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Authorities say two dogs found buried at a Phoenix-area home owned by rapper DMX had serious wounds, and a third had been burned so badly that an exam was inconclusive.

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It took them long enough! Back in January I came up with five things that I'd like to see on Google Reader. 9 months later, they have added one of them. I guess that's not too bad of a job considering they knocked out the largest item.

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As mentioned in the previous post, Google Reader is now mature. But how could it mature be without having a search feature? The wait is over: Google Reader finally added search.

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A Great article on options for Web Based versus Desktop Feed Readers.

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"Whether you love Barry Bonds or hate Barry Bonds, you still watch Barry Bonds," said Jeff Borris, Bonds' current agent. Sadly this is true.

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Uberblogger Robert Scoble is truly one-of-a-kind. For those who don't know, he became famous as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and quickly became their most outspoken and influential blogger.

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Uberblogger Robert Scoble is truly one-of-a-kind. For those who don't know, he became famous as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and quickly became their most outspoken and influential blogger.

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Centre Parcs to land in Bedford

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RSS defined: "Get news from this site without going to this site." [...] If I explained RSS feeds this way to my mom, she'd say, "So I have to go to another site instead? What's the point?" [...]and she'd say, "Do you want me to mail you those socks you left under t …

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Many journalists now use RSS feeds as part of their newsgathering process. But as the number of sites offering RSS feed proliferates, so the job of managing all these sources becomes harder.

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Like it or not, RSS is now very popular across the internet, and it is widely believed to be the most productive way of staying updated on your favourite blogs and sites. The ease and efficiency of RSS feeds vs.

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Want an easy way to find an apartment near a specific location, or track items on eBay in a certain price range, or see all the news that interests you in one place? Yahoo's new Pipes service may be for you.

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Pipes features a drag-and-drop interface that the company hopes non-technical users will find simple and intuitive as they manipulate content syndication feeds to combine data in new and useful ways.

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Like most addictions my problem started as innocent experimentation. I began dabbling in RSS years ago when it was still a relatively new technology. I told myself that it was a better way to keep up with the news.

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Public relations firm Edelman has enlisted RSS toolmaker NewsGator to build ad widgets that pull in feeds, ratings, and comments. The joint product, called "Hosted Conversations," launches Monday. ...

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This column gives a clear, simple description of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) aimed at non-technical people. RSS has promulgated all over the web, with most sites now offering RSS feeds for their stories/posts. Do you use RSS feeds?

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