I have been using Plurk or plurking for the past weeks and it is addictive but at the same time frustrating – not as frustrating as twitter but it still is frustrating.
Do not get me wrong. I really like Plurk and this because: (i) It keeps you updated on what your friend does or is thinking about; (ii) It keeps you connected; (iii)Its conversation on tap. Each plurk that is a potential conversation.
And from a casual observer it is interesting to see how the conversation progresses. Maybe that is why it is addictive.
The fatal attraction of the dancing Banana.
But that …read more

A typhoon struck our place recently. This resulted in a few hours of life without electricity and even without Internet. Some of the ISPs were knocked out during the typhoon.
Luckily, the ultraportable named Mr E was powered up. And it was just a matter of looking for wifi to get back into the Internet.
Unfortunately, Being used to the Internet and being used to it as constant companion one realizes ones dependency once it is gone. Specially when it comes to RSS feeds and specially when one uses an online RSS feed.
With the Internet connection gone the RSS Reader …read more

RSS feeds like newspapers, books and notes have a tendency to grow. More so the posts and articles from an RSS feed. Its very nature is to grow. grow. grow and grow.
(i)If you do not check your RSS Reader for a day or two you will see yourself drowned in a sea of information that has filled up your RSS Reader. (ii) And you also notice there are feeds that you often do not read anymore (not as often anyway) and this also contributes to the growing lake of information in your RSS Reader.
There are two things you can …read more

In Manila a bomb explodes in a commercial district. Calls are made from parents to children. Friends exchanged sms messages. Surprisingly, the media is caught unaware for the first few hours. What happened? Was the question of the hour? Then news came trickling in.
It was not from the press nor from media but it appeared as random posts on Twitter and other microblogging sites. An soon this micro posts or twits find themselves reposted and syndicated by RSS to other applications spreading the news.
Does this make twittering or any form of microblogging a form of embedded news reporting? Sort …read more

You are sitting in front of your computer and your check your RSS reader. What greets you are over a thousand posts or so from feeds that you subscribe to. You glance up and down. They seem to be as numerous as the stars in heaven. A sigh escapes your mouth as you plow through them. You feel like a certain Greek King cursed by the Gods to roll a boulder up the hill only to discover it disappear and reappear at the slope of the hill. And this he has to do for an eternity. My friend you suffer …read more

The theme for this month is Green. Meaning to be environmental friendly. And this is kind for us here at A Feed Is Born because or product or our niche is not really physically tangible. However, the RSS and Web feeds can be found nearly everywhere. It would be easy for us to set up you up with Al Gore’s feed. although here at the Tech channel hands down we would recommend – Eco Friendly Driver’s RSS feed.
One thing we admit here at A Feed Is Born is that we are we love information – ergo spend a lot of …read more

Despite the increasing presence of the orange icon in the Internet and on the Web. Not many people are convinced enough to use or at home with RSSFeeds. There are those who still fear it. When you mention it by name an uneasy silence fills the void between the persons talking. Then the void is filled by the singular most terrifying word in the English language – What?
Yes Ladies, gentlemen and gentle infophiles we are still in need for a number stout hearted individuals who can spread the word about RSS. Do you want to be one? Does Thou …read more

And this is no April Fool’s joke … belated as it may be. Daily Blogging tips in a post, May 1st RSS Awareness Day: Get Involved, proposes that May 1 be celebrated as RSS Day. This seems to be a good idea and a fine way to spread the gospel of RSS.
But why do the good people behind Daily Blogging Tips proposes and copyblogger support May 1 as RSS Day? And how do we go about celebrating May 1?

The other day as I was riding the train from work I met an old college buddy of mine and we began to talk about cabbages & kings – the things that matter to us. In between the discussion of family and friends our talked drifted reading newspapers and he asked me if I still read them. I immediately replied in the negative. Then it dawned on me how things have changed.

There have really been several attempts to promote and teach the benefits of RSS to a lot of people. And yet RSS is all around us when we venture into the Internet. We here at A Feed Is Born (AFIB) really like Common Crafts’ video teaching us about RSS. Then we figured one of the best place to learn about RSS is from the person himself. And by chasing the four winds and making bargains with the seven Internet Jinns, AFIB was able to conjure up RSS in the form of a man who we interviewed.
Here is the transcript …read more