Twitter has taken the world by storm and become one of the most popular and versatile social networking sites in the world, allowing users to share bite-sized information with each other quickly and easily. Now, Twitter has taken a step toward becoming a source for rapid news updates by hiring an RSS pioneer.
 
RSS is a popular format to read frequently-updated publications, such as blogs, that can be used with a variety of programs. Twitter has hired Dick Costello, co-founder and CEO of Feedburner, as its Chief Operating Officer, bringing the experience of the man who co-founded one of the most …read more

Okay, so I’ve been a paid blogger for a couple of years now. And yes, I’ve given advice to writers about how to get blog jobs. Which doesn’t mean I’m an expert – not by a long shot.
For example, it’s only recently that I’ve understood how I can use RSS feeds to make my life easier. The light dawned when reading an interview Mark Silver had with Dawud Miricle. There Dawud explained that be setting up a feed reader I could run through a bunch of blog headlines from all sorts of blogs I’d chosen and decide which ones I …read more