Modified RSS and Atom Feeds

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Being inspired by an entry on the Problogger’s entry to protect my feeds from copyright theft, I added the following to my RSS and Atom Feeds which can be easily included in your own Blogspirit-Templates:

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Kommentare wider dem Zweck?

Was bringen Kommentare wirklich? Eine rege Diskussion, viele zusätzliche Informationen… aber jede Menge Probleme für den jeweiligen Autor. Beim Feed-Lesen stieß ich soeben auf folgende fünf Thesen (grob übersetzt!):

1. Je mehr Kommentare man hat, desto weniger wird man verlinkt – Kommentare verschlechtern das Ranking
2. Die Leute schreiben besseres auf ihren eigenen Blogs als in den Kommentaren – mehr Qualität und Wert
3. Gewinner statt Verlierer sein – als Pseudo A-Listen Blogger
4. Das Ambiente ohne Foren-Kommentar-Trolle siegt – bessere Argumentationen
5. Spam, welcher Spam? – das Leben wird einfacher

Mehr dazu gibt es im via ProBlogger und BlogSavvy. Aber die Diskussion zu Kommentaren (und den Sinn und Zweck jener) ist wohl nie beendet, solange es die üblichen Spielkinder vom Texas Hold’em Poker oder der sinnfreien Kommunikation gibt… sobald man aber gezwungen ist, in seinem eigenen Weblog darüber zu schreiben, wird man sicherlich die anderen Autoren verlinken – wie es der gute Ton laut Nico ja verlangt.

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Blogebrity

Wer wollte nicht schon einmal etwas von seiner am meisten geliebten Berühmtheit aus Film, Fernsehen, Adel, Stars und Sternchen (oder die es gerne sein möchten) lesen? Dazu haben wir ja die Gala oder Bunte und wie sie nicht alles heißen. Jetzt gibt es jedoch Blogebrity! Tratsch und Klatsch aus der Bloggerszene? Man darf also gespannt sein, was die meinst englischsprachigen „Blogrühmtheiten“ in diesem Magazin preisgeben, was man nicht schon auf deren Blogs gelesen hat oder zukünftig lesen kann. Und wer kauft soetwas, wenn man doch direkt im Internet sich mit den Blogs zeitnah informieren kann? Und ob es bald auch ein deutsches Blogebrity geben wird hat Heiko auch schon bedacht. Wer mag wohl auf dem Cover sein – Nico Lumma, Robert Basic, Johnny Haeuseler, Jörg Kantel oder Anke Gröner? [via Heiko]

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Blogebrity

Blogebrity talks about Bloggers and nobody else. That’s an issue of considerance – a printed magazine only about only bloggers? I sense a strange disturbance in the blogosphere…


Heiko already wondered who might be on the cover if they’d have a german edition, and I guess the chances are high it’d be Nico Lumma, Robert Basic, Johnny Haeuseler, Jörg Kantel or Anke Gröner? The only disturbing fact is simply found within the Blogger.com environment – they require the usual registration for their services, which I simply don’t appreciate.

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RSS and Advertisement

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The debate about the implementation of advertisements in RSS feeds gets quite intensive in the Blogosphere, and Scoble made a clear and easy to understand statement concerning feeds with ad content.

1. Worst: headline only feeds with ads.
2. Almost worst: partial text feeds with ads.
3. Barely passable: partial text feeds without ads.
4. Better: Full text feeds with ads.
5. Best: Full text feeds with no ads.

I prefer to read all my daily accquired blogs and news feeds with RSS 2.0 compatible feeds, and once this entire advertisement becomes an annoyance, I believe I will cancel such feeds at once if it is showing clear signs of advertisements in the form of point 1 or point 2. The „golden middle“ found in point 3 seems to be acceptable due to the fact that many newspaper feeds are already partial, but once the advertisement like in the almost worst case gets too much covering, I’d delete the feed off my aggregator.

I consider the fourth option to be debatable. Receiving the full text as usual is definately the best way to keep feeds being read by the audience, and the usual method of trying to grab some money out of i.e. Google’s AdSense programs at the bottom of the feed content is quite acceptable – since many authors need this money to finance their blog work. But in the end, I will probably stick to the best case of showing no advertisements in the feeds – or we could simply go by traditional bookmark surfing again, or not?

[via RSS Blogger, Scoble]

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BlogSpirit in German and Spanish

It’s done, and it looks quite nice. I’ve been helping the blogSpiritlers to create the germanized version of blogSpirit. Now they feature seven languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese (both in simplified and traditional), and I believe it’s the way to go to open up the market and grab a little bit from Germany’s marketshare. However, there are a few minimum changes to be added to the german version, and I believe it’ll be totally completed on the weekend.

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Preople’s CEO is quite a fast one ;)

Long time ago I registered for the Preople.com service, and I haven’t found much time to use this web gadget alot. But suddenly I noticed my Hotmail account contained a Preople-Mail! I usually refer to my Hotmail address once I register for websites due to security and anti-spam reasons, but this one looked quite funny:

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten just visited your Personal Profile and added a link to your page to their Personal Profile. You can visit that page here if you want to know more about Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten or maybe you want to return the favor and add a link to their page too:
http://www.preople.com/?r=personal&id=1
or visit your own page:
http://www.preople.com/?r=personal&id=2049
The Preople Server

That made me simply return to the Preople Server to look up the „Number-One“ Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, and since he is the CEO of Preople, I thought it’d be a good idea to copy his RSS feed to my own list. Sadly, the feed did not validate for my reader. But upon sending him a message, he promptly reacted and wrote me a kind reply and fixed the error.

Thanks! It looks like my own RSS reader was less strict about the code so I didn’t see any errors. I used Feedvalidator to check all the code now and I found 3 more errors that were easy to fix. So thanks to you our RSS feeds now validate perfectly…

Quite fast and good ;)

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Corporate Weblogs – Potential Germany?

Proximity Germany, a customer relationship management agency, recently released a case study on Corporate Blogging in Germany. Under the final stroke, Germany offers a high potential to german companies and their multi-national brothers or subsidiaries, CEO Martin Nit explains (translated):

Even if the expectation is not yet so high at present to own Corporate Blogs, this attitude will definately change strongy on a medium-term base in Germany. This means that enterprises must argue promptly and professionally with the topic of weblogs. Weblogs are useful for the dialogue with the most different target groups such as consumers, customers and also coworkers.

However the question rises on how german companies, especially the german multi-nationals, will apply the benefits and dangers of this direct connection to the consumer. It’s going to become an interesting issue on adapting weblogs within corporate culture (and perhaps their corporate and „ethical“ policy).

[via M-E-X, Corporate Blogging]

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iso 800

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Fabian Mohr has recently created his new photo reportage blog „iso 800“ last week. By using a Canon EOS 300D camera he plans to introduce a variety of shots alongside a few hints and tips on how to work with your own camera. The blog already includes some interesting and amazing shots which are usually published on Flickr, too.

[via M-E-X, netzjournalist]

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Resume

I’ve been quite occupied with university work this week, and I remembered my Todo-List from last monday. If I’m scrolling over it, I definately had a Skype-Chat (and not a Skype-Call) with Philippe and Olivier about the translation, enjoyed a longer discussion with Robert about the potential of the new World of Warcraft blog at gamers-living.com, and I finished the paper for Spanish 2. However, I haven’t kept up with my ideas about „E-Awareness Management“ and only found time to register instead of designing the blog for Rafael. I’m sorry about this, but sometimes there’s too much to do besides the internet mania I’m facing all day long. The rest of my list is still meant to be done.

Good news is that both Kat and I were quite fascinated by a large appartment in Flensburg’s city, and we’ll probably move over there in July. ;)

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