This week I helped out Peter John Meiklem on a story for the Sunday Herald about the future of journalism. Amid all the job losses in the Scottish media, the piece looks at whether bloggers can step up to the plate and begin to supplant traditional media outlets. My view has long been that blogging ...

Hanging out on the couch today, a show on in the background had an ad for G4 TechTV. I was working on the computer, and only vaguely heard the song running through the ad: some kind of hip-hop-wannabe about tech stuff. Wait... what? Did he just rap "crashed FeedBurner"? Couldn't be. I wasn't on the ...

When I needed to publish a podcast on my blog, I figured it would be a two step process. Looking around, I found that PodPress seems to be the plugin of choice for podcasting with Wordpress. After the installation however I found that there were so many controls and options, and I found myself googl...

The last couple of days has seen a resurgence in the discussion about Feedburner and the growing dissatisfaction with the service – especially since it was sucked into the black hole known as Google Acquisitions. People like Chris Pirillo; who is actually thinking of leaving the service, and Allen...

Feedburner started as a cool new blog feed management/reporting service a few years ago, and quickly became a de facto standard.  A quick scan of my Feed Reader shows hardly anything but Feedburner.  Since Google acquired the company almost two years ago, we haven’t seen a lot of new ser...

If any of you Typepad bloggers have noticed strange changes to your FeedFlares, we were alerted to problems with Feedburner yesterday. Thank you to Debra Dalgleish, an independent computer consultant, who's eagle eyes noticed the changes. Here's the message Debra sent: Hi Patsi, At the bottom of you...

I subscribe to my blog through my email just like 170 other people. I do that to see what my subscribers are seeing. But for the past week Feedburner is not sending out my posts and there is no way to contact them to resolve this issue. I log on to feedburner and it takes around 5 minutes just to lo...

Op de eerste van de maand duik ik altijd even in de statistieken van ZB Digitaal, Bibliotheek 2.0 en, vandaag voor het eerst, van Betafactor. Je leert er altijd een hoop van. Als ik het bekijk over een paar maanden kan ik constateren dat Bibliotheek 2.0 nog steeds een toename van het aantal bezoeker...

[Updated with new details about deal, including who worked on it and info on a cash component.] About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Whi...

If you’re reading this post via your RSS reader or email, then you haven’t seen my new blog theme/layout. When you have time, please do drop by and check out the new look of JaypeeOnline. The last time I did a theme reboot or change my blog theme/layout was early this year when I install...