Mike Sansone recently posted a retrospective on what he wrote last year in September. It served as a good reminder that blogging can sometimes benefit from looking at the past, not just the present.

I took a look at what I wrote a year ago in October (on inkBlots), and some of it still seems pretty relevant. You be the judge:

Google Reader + FeedBurner: Create The Ultimate Reading List

Sometimes as a blogger you don’t want to create a new entry just to report an interesting article you found. (Some people use del.icio.us links for this purpose, but I find that to be less than user-friendly.) A much nicer solution is to provide a Reading List of sorts, similar to the point of a blogroll, but at an item level. The ideal Reading List would directly include the content to be read, rather than just a link to it, and be published in Atom or RSS for the convenience of your audience.

In this article I’ll show you how to use Google Reader and FeedBurner to manage a reading list for your audience. [Read On...]

Top 5 Reasons Your Coworkers Don’t Use RSS

Have you discovered your otherwise-reasonably-hip coworkers don’t use an RSS or Atom reader? Here are the excuses we hear the most:

5) “What’s RSS?”
4) “I prefer email.”
3) “I use more than one computer (or) can’t install anything on my work PC.”
2) “I get overloaded with too much information.”
1) “I used to beat up geeks like you in school.”

Oh, cruel world. Here are some ways you can help turn them around … [Read On...]

Is Firefox sharing your feed list with Google?

Jared Breland reports that Firefox 2 may be (un?)intentionally sending your RSS and Atom feed subscriptions to Google, thanks to a quirk in favicon retrieval. He goes into detail about the hows and whys this may be happening, but here’s the ultimate result … [Read On...]

PDF Pirates

It never occurred to me that PDFs would be a digital medium ripe for pirating. But hey, everybody is stealing music and software, right?

I spotted a torrent last night of a very popular RSS book, in PDF form. I chatted with the author about it… stealing digital books isn’t something either of us have thought much about. It irritates me to know that the torrent is robbing him of royalties. [Read On...]

Save TWiT

… Sadly, it looks as though TWiT may be shutting down for lack of interest by the participants (excluding Mr. Laporte). If you would hate to see the show shut down, drop a comment and let them Leo know TWiT shouldn’t die. [Read On...]