Full Content RSS Feeds Compounding the Splog Problem?October 21st, 2005 It appears to me full content RSS feeds are actually helping and compounding the splog (spam blog) problem. Splogs or spam blogs are blogs which are created by using syndicated content of other blogs, automatically aggregated, to increase their PR and AdSense dollars.
Low Noise Way to Read LifeHacker / Gawker Media Sites With SmartFeedNovember 30th, 2005 LifeHacker is a nifty blog in Nick Denton's blogomerate (blog + conglomerate) which provides interesting tips for computer users. So here is my tip for LifeHacker users (and other readers of Gawker Media), LifeHacker style.
Full Feed or Excerpt only in RSS Feeds?June 11th, 2005 I was initially providing excerpted feeds only. However I switched over to full feed format.
Sharing Experience with Google AdSense For Feed August 29th, 2008 Please share your experience with Google AdSense for Feeds. My experience is pretty dismal so far.
Can RSS Feeds carry a Virus Payload?June 12th, 2005 With the rapid proliferation of RSS Feeds and offline aggregators it is presumable that virus writers will try to exploit this avenue to spread the virus. But the question is whether it is feasible?
In short technically a resounding YES.
Sedo Appears to be Hacking into My AccountNovember 4th, 2005 I realized that all my feeds in artima have been, without my knowledge, replaced with a sedo site, a domain squatter, with my domain name as a query in their script. Either they have hacked into my Artima account or they found some loophole in Artima site which they exploited to increase their page rank and effectively disabling all my feeds.
Google AdSense versus Yahoo Publisher Network: ReviewJuly 1st, 2007 I use both YPN & AdSense. Read below for a summary of my experience with both Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN).
Two ways to Optimize your RSS feedJanuary 15th, 2009 Baffled with a sea of RSS feeds in your reader or aggregator? You are not alone. This happens to every other subscriber.
Case Study: Debugging WordPress Plugins (PHP code)June 19th, 2005 Today I received a rather angry comment from one of my feed readers and I quote: "Come on! There was absolutely no content in the feed. Not even a teaser.
RSS Push Model (ex. PubSub) is not viable in long runMarch 23rd, 2005 PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time.
WordPress Plugin to Automatically add Copyright Message to your RSS / ATOM Feeds - Angsuman's Feed Copyrighter PluginJune 28th, 2005 Contents
Overview
Background
Technical Details
Download
Installation
Configuration and Usage
Uninstallation
Overview
This plugin adds a copyright message to your feed items. No customization is required.
Back to the drawing board on category feedsMarch 18th, 2005 Few days back I moved to providing categorized feed for JavaBlogs and Artima. However I realized two big problems with this approach which questions the viability as of now.
Simple Thoughts Blog is Featured in Feedster Top 500 Blogs - Ranked 33December 1st, 2005 This blog - (Simple Thoughts on Java and Web Software) has been selected again in Feedster Top 500 list. This time we made significant improvement over last time and ranked 33.
WordPress Dashboard Blank Page Display SolutionJuly 10th, 2006 After moving over my test blog to the new server, I noticed that the Admin Dashboard (with tons of unnecessary feeds) wasn't displaying. It shows just a blank page.
WordPress Plugins (Free) Developed and Supported by Taragana.ComJune 2nd, 2005 Update: I am delighted to announce the much awaited release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen major world languages - German, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
November 30th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
[...] LifeHacker and other Gawker Media sites chose to avoid the RSS full feed versus summary feed controversy by deciding to provide both. They provide ad-free summarized feed and full-content feed with ads. [...]