Nick Bradbury

Lately the geekosphere has been buzzing about how RSS is being replaced by the real-time stream. Instead of getting our information from syndicated blog feeds, we’re now getting it via streams from Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, et al. This isn’t new. The only thing that’s new is that “A-list” bloggers are finally getting wise to it. Outside the geekosphere, people have... [read more]

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know NewsGator as an RSS aggregator company, so you may not have heard about NewsGator Widgets yet. Our widgets have been used by sites such as Discovery.com, MacWorld and CBS News - and now they're being used by USATODAY.com as well. According to this articles on Forbes.com, this makes USA... [read more]

Several years ago, Ken Layne famously warned the media that on the Internet, "we can fact-check your ass." Sadly, many bloggers could use some fact-checking, too: A few days ago Valleywag claimed that the recent 365 Main datacenter outage was due to a drunk employee - a claim they've since retracted. Last week Robert Scoble posted erroneous statements about FeedBurner... [read more]

Happy 10th anniversary to Scripting News, the longest continuing running weblog on the 'net. [read more]

In response to my post about providing alternate content when embedding video in your feed, Glenn Slaven has created a WordPress plugin that automatically adds a section for embedded content. Nice one, Glenn! <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/glenn_slavens_n.html" class="more">[read more]</a> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> Monday, March 12, 2007 in <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/rssatom/">Syndication</a>, <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/weblogs/">Weblogs</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/glenn_slavens_n.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/glenn_slavens_n.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fnick.typepad.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2Fglenn_slavens_n.html&scoring=d">Incoming Links</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-31517380"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/twittering_at_s.html">Twittering at SXSW</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-excerpt"> I'll be at SXSW for the next few days, and I'm giving Twitter a try while I'm here to keep up with other attendees. If you want to keep tabs on me, my Twitter name is "nbradbury" (and here's my Twitter RSS feed). Note to the Twitter devs: When using IE, mousing over someone's avatar shows the name of the... <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/twittering_at_s.html" class="more">[read more]</a> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> Sunday, March 11, 2007 in <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/webtech/">Web/Tech</a>, <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/weblogs/">Weblogs</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/twittering_at_s.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/twittering_at_s.html#comments">Comments (4)</a> | <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fnick.typepad.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2Ftwittering_at_s.html&scoring=d">Incoming Links</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-15405049"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/white_hat_wikip.html">White Hat Wikipedia</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-excerpt"> Last week I blogged about editing your own Wikipedia entry, and this week Wikipedia is being discussed all over the geekosphere following Microsoft's attempt to pay someone to edit an entry about Office 2007's new XML format. I had planned to write a much longer post about this, but it turns out that my Nashville neighbor Rex Hammock has already... <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/white_hat_wikip.html" class="more">[read more]</a> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> Thursday, January 25, 2007 in <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/weblogs/">Weblogs</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/white_hat_wikip.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/white_hat_wikip.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fnick.typepad.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F01%2Fwhite_hat_wikip.html&scoring=d">Incoming Links</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-15006178"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/feedburner_site.html">FeedBurner Site Statistics</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-excerpt"> The statistics packages offered by most popular blogging services are either limited or non-existent, leaving many bloggers struggling to get good information on traffic to their blog. Those of us who use FeedBurner have long had good feed-related statistics, but we've had to rely on other services to get information on blog traffic. <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/feedburner_site.html" class="more">[read more]</a> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> Thursday, January 04, 2007 in <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/rssatom/">Syndication</a>, <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/weblogs/">Weblogs</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/feedburner_site.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/feedburner_site.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fnick.typepad.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F01%2Ffeedburner_site.html&scoring=d">Incoming Links</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-14990700"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update_mos.html">Blog Update (Mostly) Complete</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-excerpt"> I've made a ton of changes to my blog over the last few days, and I'm curious whether others see them as improvements or annoyances... <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update_mos.html" class="more">[read more]</a> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> Wednesday, January 03, 2007 in <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/weblogs/">Weblogs</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update_mos.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update_mos.html#comments">Comments (14)</a> | <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fnick.typepad.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F01%2Fblog_update_mos.html&scoring=d">Incoming Links</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-14966244"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update.html">Blog Update</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-excerpt"> I'm experimenting with my blog's design this week, so you may see some weird behavior here for the next day or two. If so, just ignore it - it's only me playing around. <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update.html" class="more">[read more]</a> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> Tuesday, January 02, 2007 in <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/weblogs/">Weblogs</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/blog_update.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fnick.typepad.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F01%2Fblog_update.html&scoring=d">Incoming Links</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <!-- c 6a00d83451863669e200d8341c856353ef disabled --> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var extra_happy = Math.floor(1000000000 * Math.random()); document.write('<img src="http://www.typepad.com/t/stats?blog_id=3228&amp;user_id=1939&amp;page=' + escape(location.href) + '&amp;referrer=' + escape(document.referrer) + '&amp;i=' + extra_happy + '" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;" />'); // --> </script> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-77300-2"; urchinTracker(); </script> <!-- Start Quantcast tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">_qoptions = { tags:"typepad.core" }; _qacct="p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM"; quantserve();</script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM.gif?tags=typepad.core" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a> </noscript> <!-- End Quantcast tag --> </body> </html><!-- ph=1 --> <!-- nhm:from_kauri -->