How to Subscribe to An RSS Feed

There are generally two different kinds of tools that allow visitors to subscribe to RSS feeds. These tools are known as aggregators, or RSS news readers. As the content of an RSS feed changes, the RSS reader/aggregator will update itself automatically and display the new RSS feed items.

There are two types of aggregators -- desktop aggregators, and web-based aggregators...

How to Subscribe to an RSS Feed

YouTube Adds Free Grindhouse Movie Section, Featuring Slashers, Zombies & Extreme Chickfights

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YouTube has introduced a new YouTube Movies section, which offers about 400 free full-length films.

If you’re looking for YouTube to offer an alternative to Netflix or Blockbuster, this ain’t it.

On the other hand, if you want to take a trip back to the 70’s drive-in grindhouse, you have hit the motherlode!

The selection includes classics like Cheerleader Zombies, above, and Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned:

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Other grindhouse classics include Blood Sucking Babes From Burbank, Dorm Of The Dead, Satan’s School For Girls, The Corpse Grinder, Extreme Chickfights and the zombie underground fighting film, Fist of the Vampire.

Making the Most Out of Your Podcast

Mention podcasting and the image of someone sitting in their basement with a computer and microphone, dreaming of becoming a professional DJ, is what comes to mind for many.  It may surprise you to learn that this emerging technology is actually becoming a mainstream marketing and communication tool for businesses, with the potential to make significant contributions to the bottom line.  

Podcasting is simply the act of making radio-quality audio programs available for download through an RSS feed to a computer, MP3 player or other portable media device.  Listeners need only subscribe to a podcast once; afterwards, new content is automatically delivered to them as soon as it becomes available.

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Podcasts A Love Story

Podcasts are, simply, amazing. This coolest of innovations supply an infinite source of information on any topic you can think of. Anyone, anywhere, has the means to put together their own custom-configured radio station. How awesome is that?

Included in the podcast package comes inspiration, awe and respect for all the pioneers out there who spent and continue to spend hours each week, putting together enough material for a single podcast.

Pocasts A Love Story

10 Steps to Get the Click

There are a number of steps a webmaster can take to encourage visitors to click on a link or graphic located on their website. The following steps will help get the click...

10 Steps to Get the Click

Podcast Show Length: Short vs. Long?

I do not believe that length is a big issue at all, but is something that needs to be considered and thought about. Each podcaster needs to determine what his or her goals are for the show – overall format and depth of details covered in the recording will determine the length. You will find that half of your audience will want a short show and the other half will want a long show. So you cannot meet everyones desires.

Make the show length want you think is right for you and consider the value the audience is getting from the show based on the topic focus and segments. Do be concise, but have fun and give some of your personality over time as that creates a deeper personal connection with the audience.

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Podcasting Ideas for the Classroom

Some classroom ideas for podcasting:

    * Record directions for students
    * Record lessons
    * Record supplemental materials
    * Record instructions for a substitute teacher
    * Record classroom rules
    * Interview people at your school
    * Create a news show and discuss current events
    * Record a speech
    * Record student readings so they can hear what they sound like

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Podcasting for Learning and Sales Enablement

What do Duke University, IBM, Capital One, Newsweek and Barenaked Ladies all have in common?

Answer: they are all reaching out to staff, students, and customers with a new and powerful tool – podcasting. You may have heard about podcasting from your kids or on the news, but podcasting is much more than some phenomenon started by the rock and roll or techy crowd. Podcasting is a powerful communication tool being used to reach global and mobile audiences, save people time and, most importantly, really connect with their audiences in news ways – in todays communication/message glut.

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Wired Figures Out How To Lie With Statistics, Or PODCASTING KILLED THE WEB!!!!

Wired today declared that the Web is dead, backing it up with this chart that shows the history of the proportion of total Internet bandwidth taken up by various types of traffic.

According to Wired’s Chris Anderson – the proportion of Internet traffic taken up by Web requests is getting smaller – so “the Web is dead”.

It seems that Wired, in its quest to come up with outrageous linkbait, decided that the percentage of traffic carried over the Internet is the determiner of the viability of the Web and other forms of Internet traffic.

Did Podcasting Kill The Web?

By Wired’s way of thinking, you could argue that podcasting killed the Web. Audio and video podcasts are several orders of magnitude larger than a typical Web page.

What Wired ignores, though, is that the volume of Web traffic continues to grow by leaps and bounds.

Boing Boing counters Wired’s ludicrous argument with this chart, which more accurately shows that the Web is growing at an amazing rate, but media file traffic is growing faster – because media are a lot bigger:

Unfortunately, Wired’s need to come up with a new meme may keep people from considering a real trend – that devices like the iPad are forking the Web.

Just when it looked like the Web was going to kill off all other media – the iPad is demonstrating the benefits of dedicated Internet-enabled applications.

Instead of the one-size-fits-all approach of the computer Web browser, Apple is creating a platform of dedicated apps that do one thing really well.

This means:

• The BBC News app is a wonderful mashup of newspaper, Web and radio on the iPad;
• Google Maps on the iPad is tactile, interactive, more map-like and gorgeous;
• Reading USA Today on the iPad combines many of the best features of both print and the Web;
• Watching YouTube on the iPad is faster and more immersive, because the dedicated app adapts to the context of your actions; and
• iBooks combines the readability of books with the instant gratification of the Web.

Wired’s article can be dismissed as linkbait – but don’t dismiss the real trend towards an alternaweb of elegant dedicated Internet apps.

Make Money From Podcasts

With the growing popularity of podcasting, publishers and marketers around the world are asking themselves how to monetize

Make Money Podcasting

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