http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/12/can-technorati-beat-google-at-blog-search357.html

http://www.brainyhistory.com/

Of late, I've noticed that Google Blog Search is failing me in the same ways that Technorati began failing me a few years back. The biggest problem is that a new result for my query will show one hour and when I return an hour later, that result has disappeared only to reappear again a few hours later.

Further, results are being reported where the blog entry does not contain a match, but rather that the match occurs in the blogger's sidebar. This leads to an enormous about of white noise/false positives. I'm guessing that Google is no longer simply indexing the RSS feed, but rather, they are indexing the entire blog page, including the clutter. Last, results from more than a year ago are being indexed today.

These are all problems that made me switch from Technorati to Google Blog Search in the first place.  Now Google has caught Technorati's cold? What happened? Did Google happen to hire the Technorati team? I really hope not.

Migration of FeedBurner and Google feeds is to occur in the very near future. This is likely a very important step in progression of the RSS standard. Many large publishers used the FeedBurner platform to publish their RSS feeds. Google bought FeedBurner quite some time ago. I've been informed that my FeedBurner account will be transferred to my Google account. Not sure how they associated those two accounts, but they did. Let's track this closely. Please email me any issue at randy@kbcafe.com. Thanks!

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=99647

The Samsung HDTVs support RSS via a feature called Infolink RSS. This places TV widgets on your screen, like news tickers, stock quotes and weather. I don't see that you can subscribe to any arbitrary RSS feeds. Anybody know more?

http://pages.samsung.com/us/howiseeit/#/infolink-rss/?DFA=1

This website was selected to be part of Google's limited beta of their Event Tracking API. Read more. I doubt I'll participate. Don't have time. Don't know why they picked me. Usual laziness excuses.

http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords/?guid=20081031081043

I just discovered Feed My Inbox, a new RSS to email service that is trying to fill the void left by SendMeRSS. "Feed My Inbox" was actually a trademark of Rmail, but I doubt NBC is paying attention.

http://www.feedmyinbox.com/

Out of curiousity, I searched Google for RSS and email. Turns out Rmail-SendMeRSS was 3 of the 5 top results (results may vary). SendMeRSS is now dead and twice now people have asked if I had the old Rmail code and if I could just recreate Rmail. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. I thru away the code and even if I could find an old backup, I wouldn't feel right about re-using code I sold to NBC. Nevertheless, I could rewrite Rmail in a few days (given the free time). With SendMeRSS finally gone (what a horror story), I'm considering adding RSS-2-email services to Reblinks and polishing it off. Thoughts?

http://www.reblinks.com/

Just in time for the elections, Newsgator has released some election widgets. Check 'em out!

Pluck is launching a new paid syndication service using their BlogBurst brand that offers the publishers a percentage share of revenue for ad-supported re-syndication. This appears to be similar to Voxant.

http://www.blogburst.com/blogger/extendication.html

I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't done enough these first few months as chair of the RSS advisory board. I've been very busy (lame excuse). Steve Rubel wrote a couple posts that has convinced me to take up arms against the non-believers.

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/10/rss-adoption-at.html
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/10/ive-seen-the-fu.html

Read and enjoy. More to follow. I promise. Note to self: Set alarm to kick my ass every morning.

www.HelloSanta.org

Google finally released (as long expected) their own Web browser, called Google Chrome. At first glance, I'm unsure why I would use this instead of IE or Firefox. There does not appear to be a built-in RSS reader, nor any easy way of subscribing to feeds, nor a user friendly RSS view. It's quite disturbing to me to see the stripped tags-text view, which I thought we overcame several years ago. Arggg! Google's going backwards.

http://www.google.com/chrome/

The RSS Mixer looks pretty cool. Combine RSS feeds and make them available as other RSS feeds and widgets.

http://www.rssmixer.com/

Judging from the edited previous post, you should be able to tell that NBC has now threatened me with legal action for exposing the fact that they are not supporting the SendMeRSS users anymore. I removed any specifics only to avoid any legal problems with them. But take my advice, if you are using SendMeRSS as a publisher, then you could be screwing your readers, and if you are using SendMeRSS as a client, then you'd best NOT!

You want an incident report, then check this out.
http://pittland.blogspot.com/2008/07/sendmerss-problems.html 

Please reblog so that we can pressure NBC into supporting the SendMeRSS users.

For those that don't know, my relationship with NBC ended in June and I'm no longer maintaining the SendMeRSS website. [cut]

Let me begin by apologizing to all the old Rmail users. [cut]

Again, sorry it didn't work out.

http://www.sendmerss.com/

Hey guest what? I'm the chair of the RSS advisory board. Wow! I'd really like to thank Rogers for doing a great job during these last two years. We finally got some peace under his leadership and lot done; including needed clarifications on the spec, an RSS profile and an autodiscovery spec. Thanks Rogers. Hopefully, I'll do as well going forward.

Thanks also to those that helped make this happen. Rogers, of course. Dave Winer for getting me into RSS in the first place, creating the board and for putting the thought in my head of joining the board. Then there's all the other members of the RSS board, who've all been supportive of what we are doing. And then there's you the readers of The RSS Blog, who kept my interest all these years. Thanks all!

http://www.rssboard.org/news/183/randy-charles-morin-becomes-rss-advisory
http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3388/randy-charles-morin-becomes-rss-advisory

Please excuse the emptiness of this blog, as I've been on vacation for the last month. Now that I'm back, I'm getting ready for a great autumn for RSS. Once I get back in the saddle, I've got two things I want done.

• I intend on getting PSS adopted by the RSS advisory board. If you don't remember PSS, it's Portable RSS or how to embed RSS in other XML vocabularies. 
• Then, I want to add my Feed State documentation to the RSS board's best practices.

Maybe we can get people talking about RSS again.

FilterRSS is a bayesian filter for your RSS. I tried it, rated a couple things, but couldn't quite figure it out. If your interested in playing with it some more, then please blog about it and I'll link it up.

http://www.filteredrss.com/