Support for the Atom format is growing, but it's certainly not as extensive as support for RSS. Because of this, it is sometimes useful to be able to convert Atom feeds to RSS. If, for example, you are using CaRP to display RSS feeds on your website, and you find an Atom feed you'd like...
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"Our profits are growing exponentially!" Sounds great, right? Not necessarily. Here's a little one frame comic I drew to show how exponential profit growth can actually be a bad thing
LDS Singles Calendar.com
by ZetaGecko | Business
My brother is always coming up with Mental Arcs, though sometimes they look more like short circuits. His latest (which wasn't a short circuit) was to build a free site to help people automate their activity email lists. The idea is to use it to bring more traffic into our singles site. (BTW, both are...
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It's a matter of priorities: Gecko Tribe offers a wide variety of products and services from t-shirts to iMovie plugins to RSS tools to FileMaker Pro plugins to online chess, and yes, a SPAM filter. My list of work priorities has grown quite long, and maintaining SPAMbaffle has taken a back seat to my core...
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Ever since I built CaRP to import news onto one of my websites (I wanted a way to keep it fresh without having to do any work myself), I've been using RSS feeds more and more to shuttle data around my sites. I added code to output RSS feeds from my discussion forums. I set...
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Since deleting a few high-click-thru, low-conversion ads a few days ago, my number of conversions has increased. It may be a fluke--I'll have to wait longer to know for sure. It occurred to me as I glanced at my stats this morning that it may not always be good to have your ad at the...
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Optimize your Google advertising
by ZetaGecko | Marketing
Google's AdWords is a great way to advertise on a budget. You write an ad and pick keywords that, when searched for on Google, will bring it up. Depending on the competition for your choice of keywords, you can advertise for as little as 5 cents per click. And you don't pay a thing for...
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Chordata newsfeed directory debuts
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS, Gecko Tribe
A week ago, I wrote a little about the challenge of finding quality newsfeeds. As I wrote, I got an idea for a new newsfeed directory that would make that easier. Since then, I've dropped most of my other work, copied a bunch of code from my existing sites, twisted and bullied it and written...
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Finding quality newsfeeds
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS, Gecko Tribe
One of the challenges facing users of RSS and Atom feeds is finding feeds worth subscribing to. If you're lucky enough to be looking for a feed on a subject addressed by a major news organization, and you can find a major news organization that publishes newsfeeds, life's not so bad (except that it's still...
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I read an interesting book last week called The Tipping Point. It's all about the little factors that cause trends to explode. It got me thinking about the growth of RSS and other data bite formats. By now, we're definitely past the Innovator stage, where RSS is only used by people on the bleeding edge....
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