Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
March 2004

Don Norman On PowerPoint Usability   What does one of the world's leading authorities on usability say about PowerPoint? As cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group and author of the classic The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman is a strong advocate of user-centered design and simplicity. Surprisingly, Norman disagrees with PowerPoint's... read more | cat.: | Link Cliff Atkinson -- March 31

WordTracker Killer: Adwords Clever Wizard   Do you need to identify which are they set of keywords that are most in demand in the online niche you operate in? Need to learn what KEI means? The Wordtracker Killer is here! While there is really quite nothing like the original service from the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 31

Guide To All Interface GUIs   Guidebook is a fast-growing online resource dedicated to preservation and showcase of all the major Graphical User Interfaces utilized to this day on personal computers. At Guidebook you can find all of the interface elements of Windows 386, System 6 for the Mac or any other... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Guidebook -- March 31

Search According To Your Preferences: Google Adds Personalized Search   Google is now offering a personalized search service. Once you have filled in your profile data you can start searching with your profile directing the type of results that you will be proposed. Though you may be puzzled by what Google turns up when you carry... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Google -- March 30

An Evolving Glossary Of New Design Disciplines   A great glossary of new design disciplines: Information Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Experience Design. What are they? Find out from one of the pioneering experience designers and virtual interaction scholars of our time: Nathan Shedroff. ... read more | cat.: | Link Nathan Shedroff -- March 30

Deliver Live PowerPoint Presentations With Your Full Audio And Video: InstantPresenter   A new online live presentation system provides an effective way to upload and deliver live PowerPoint presentations on the Web. The new service also integrates an audio-video stream going from the presenter to all participants. InstantPresenter is fully cross-platform and can be used easily with... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- March 30

Yahoo's Own PageRank: Web Rank   In a move that may further thrill the professionals working in SEO and SEM areas, Yahoo has quitely rolled out something very similar to the famous Google PageRank. This is a system that allows Yahoo to calculate the rank of any Web site by leveraging the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - [via Serge Thibodeau] -- March 29

Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice: Independent Review Contradicts Redmond   "Microsoft used to have an advertisement asking where you wanted to go today; this is more true of OpenOffice since it allows you more control of your data through vendors and even inhouse staff who can help with it. Microsoft is dictating a future; this is... read more | cat.: | Link NewsForge - [via Slashdot] -- March 29

How Important Is To Test Your Web Site For Compatibility?   In an interesting Web Site Compatibility Test, MarketingExperiments tested five different Web sites on 14 different computer systems and discovered how to improve the conversion ratio for these sites by 42% without changing a single word of copy. Though their specific solution is hidden under a... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 29

Can NGSCB/Palladium/Trusted Computing Be Also Useful?   "Trusted Computing (TC) continues to be one of the most controversial technologies to come along in many years. Ross Anderson's (anti) TCPA FAQ, Lucky Green's apocalyptic DEFCON presentation, and sites such as notcpa.org and againsttcpa.com are full of predictions of online disaster if TC technology is... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Unlimited Freedom -- March 28

How To Determine The Most Appropriate Learning Style   The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A.... read more | cat.: | Link NCSU - [via Marcus P. Zillman] -- March 28

How To Apply Minimalism Principles To The Design Of Effective Human To Computer Interfaces   An excellent paper covering the application of Minimalist principles to interface design, UI optimization and other HCI-related work. In this presentation, the four basic principles of minimalism are introduced, (1. Choose an action-oriented approach, 2. Anchor the tool in the task domain, 3. Support error recognition... read more | cat.: | Link JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD - The Center for Information-Development Management -- March 28

Newsbot, Blogbot and Answerbot: Microsoft Gears Up For RSS, News Search and Blogs   Expanding its push into the Internet search space, Microsoft says it plans to launch Internet search services for news and Web logs later this year. The new services, called MSN Newsbot and MSN Blogbot, up the ante in the battle for Internet search market share. Microsoft... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Yahoo News -- March 27

Why We Need Technology In Education   Classroom teaching, even if supported with technology, will not scale. If we are to provide access to all, we must abandon the idea that education is something that is done for us and support the idea that it is something we can do for ourselves. That's... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Downes -- March 27

Open Office vs Microsoft Office (according to MS)   A two-page PDF showcasing key differences, features, pros and cons of Open Office (free) and Microsoft Office. Though the document has been written and prepared by Microsoft, leaving quite a patina of , in it you can still find lots of useful information about this steadily... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Microsoft -- March 26

BlogDSNG   News, links and other useful stuff for the blog designer. BlogDSNG is a great online resource offering selected information to selected resources, directories and tools relating to bloggers, RSS newsmasters and independent publishers. This is a new well organized resource to which you can directly contribute... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - BlogDSNG -- March 26

The Birth of "The Metaweb" -- The Next Big Thing -- What We are All Really Building   Originally developed at Netscape, a new technology called RSS has risen from the dead to ignite the next-evolution of the Net. RSS represents the first step in a major new paradigm shift -- the birth of "The Metaweb." The Metaweb is the next evolution of the... read more | cat.: | Link Nova Spivacks -- March 26

Groove v3 Gets It! Hands-On Review Confirms Cheerful Praises Of New Beta Release   The time has finally come. After spending about two weeks on it, I am now ready to share a first hands-on review of the new beta version of Groove, that has been made available to existing customers and other requesting parties since last week. There is lots to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 26

eMarketing 101 For Online Independent Publishers   A well prepared and exhaustive short reference to all you need to do to improve the quality and readership of your online site. In this great article, originally targeted at bloggers, Dave Pollard distils it all down to the ten things you can do that are... read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard -- March 25

Augmenting Knowledge Sharing Through Social Compensation   Today wealth is created through knowledge. The more effective the knowledge flow in an organization, the more wealth created. Within companies and public work, knowledge flow must always be severely limited. This is because of the control required for public work. Knowledge Leveraging Compensation is a... read more | cat.: | Link Barry Carter -- March 25

Why RSS Is Everywhere   So many sites, so little time. If you want to stay at the top of the information food chain, you gotta read 'em - lots of 'em. And you have to do it every day. But as that list of must-read blogs grows, hunting and gathering... read more | cat.: | Link Xeni Jardin - Wired -- March 25

Online Reputation Management Is Here: RepCheck   In this electronic age, where face-to-face meetings are few and far between, reputation is becoming progressively more difficult to ascertain, but no less important. RepCheck allows users to review, rate and search its database of people's reputations for both business and social purposes. Using RepCheck... read more | cat.: | Link RepCheck - [via Mindecos] -- March 24

The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian   The Digital Information Librarian is one of the emerging professional roles that is best qualified to ride and leverage to its best advantage the revolution about to sweep the information management, search, retrieval and independent news publishing industries. In particular, the academic background and research experience these... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 24

Exciting Times For The Electronic Reference Librarian: The Future Of News Is Here   "eMail alerts will be replaced with smart RSS feeds, AI algorithms will constantly monitor our selected newsfeeds to capture only the in-depth points of our current interest and projects. Smart snapshots of information will be analyzed, formulated and then disseminated to our projects or personal information... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 24

Experience Design Anyone?   Find out what interaction designers, information architects and multimedia producers think Experience Design really is. Excerpted and carefully picked from an ongoing exchange started yesterday on the AIGA YahooGroup Discussion List, this is a great collection of contributions facilitating greater understanding of ED for both the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 24

What Is Experience Design?   I have had much difficulty in the past making partners and customers understand my role as an Interaction Designer. While they could all fully grasp the roles of Information Designer, Communication Strategist, Design and Information Architect, they would feel uncomfortable in accepting the idea of a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 23

Future Web: How Will It Be?   "The future will be simple, open, informal, standard-compliant and in reverse-chronological order. No matter how you call it, blogging, weblogging or personal publishing will become the most important way of sharing information and managing knowledge. Wikis will become the most widely-used groupware and collaboration tools." An... read more | cat.: | Link Thijs van der Vossen -- March 23

Search Web, RSS, Emails, PDFs And Documents At Once: The HotBot Desktop Browser Toolbar   A new search tool, released today, searches seamlessly through Web information, email messages and PDF documents on your hard disk. The new HotBot Desktop search tool integrates also an RSS newsreader and aggregator which facilitates subscribing and searching through popular and personally selected newsfeeds. The free... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - PCWorld -- March 23

Twelve Reasons Why Open Source Will Prevail   Internet whiz Marc Andreessen took the 3rd annual "Open Source in Government" conference by storm last week, at George Washington University in Washington DC, when he came up with his personal top twelve reasons for why open source will boom over the next 5-10 years. ... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - LinuxWorld.com -- March 23

Technorati Launches New Interface Online   Technorati, one of the must-stop points for anyone publishing a weblog or having an RSS feed out there, has just launched a new version of the interface which appears, brighter, more informative and easier to use. Technorati is a free online service that provides a unique... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 22

Business Development Through Online Networking   Business networking serves many purposes: general marketing, sales prospecting, recruiting, job-hunting, knowledge exchange, and business development. Of all these, business development is the one that it supports best. Recently, “business networking” has developed some negative connotations for many people, due to its widespread use in the... read more | cat.: | Link Scott Allen -- March 22

Virus Epidemic Scours The Internet   "A new Internet worm wriggled across the entire Internet in the span of a few hours Saturday morning to all computers running several recent versions of firewall software from Internet Security Systems, including BlackICE and RealSecure, according to this story at Washingtonpost.com. The flaw exploited was... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Slashdot -- March 22

Download Time Calculator   The Time Download Calculator is a freeware tool, weigthing less than 100 KB, that allows you to measure the exact download time of any image or Web page according to your pre-designated Internet connection speed. ... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Robin Good Sharewood Tidings -- March 22

Microsoft Shares Its Security Procedures   Microsoft has released a technical case study of its internal security procedures, in which it spells out a three-pronged approach to thwarting malicious hacker attacks and urges enterprise admins to spend more time anticipating and preventing attacks. The case study includes several best practice recommendations for... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Internetnews.com -- March 21

You Are What You Can Share   As people learn to expose their personal assets online effectively to current and potential colleagues, premium content ownership and use will become an increasingly important part of that mix of personal attributes. Getting workflows right is today's hot ticket, but as protected vendor databases begin to... read more | cat.: | Link John Blossom - Shore -- March 21

The High Cost of Not Finding Information   Businesses generally have a pretty good on handle on how much they spend to acquire information, but sometimes it's what they *don't* know that really trips them up. For instance, in 1999 NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft traveled 416 million miles without a hitch only to... read more | cat.: | Link KMWorld - [via Marcus P. Zillman] -- March 21

Strike A Balance   Balanced intellectual property laws are essential to innovation. Silicon Valley needs to step up and protect the open traditions that have helped build the high-technology industry, Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig told an audience of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, lawyers, and venture capitalists at the recent... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - PC World -- March 20

Follow The Buzz   Follow the buzz and the key movers in the Online Collaboration arena. Kolabora offers a new special page where not only you can follow top tools, facilities, issues and trends, but where you can also suggest new ones to track. Powered by Waypath Buzz-o-Meter, this page... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 20

It's Not File Sharing The Recording Music Problem: It's The Price!   Contrary to the music industry gneral propaganda, the sky is not falling down. After several years of warnings about the dire consequences of P2P file sharing for music sales, the Australian Record Industry Association yesterday released sales figures for 2003 showing an increase of nearly 8... read more | cat.: | Link Sydney Morning Herald Online - [via Slashdot] -- March 20

How To Design Information Pages For The Focussed Reader   People may initially scan read on the Web; their eyes moving quickly across a page. However, when they find the keywords they are interested in, they tend to tunnel read. What this means is that they focus on a specific set of content. They basically don't... read more | cat.: | Link Gerry McGovern -- March 19

Do We Really Need Some Privacy?   The leader who beats the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is a double-edged sword. It emboldens the blood and narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached fever pitch and the blood boils with... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 19

How To Calculate The Exact Download Time For Any Image Or Web Page   Time Download Calculator http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dldltime.html [must have] = Desktop tool (Win) FREE The Time Download Calculator is a freeware tool, weigthing less than 100 KB, that allows you to measure the exact download time of any image or Web page according to your pre-defined Internet connection speed. This is something that I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 19

From Big Brother to Electronic Panopticon   The Panopticon offers a powerful and compelling metaphor for understanding electronic surveillance. The prison-like society, where invisible observers track our digital footprints, does indeed seem panoptic. Bentham would surely smile wryly if he saw us complying with institutional norms as we use barcoded library books or... read more | cat.: | Link David Lyon - [via Nick Ru] -- March 18

The Deadly P2P Trojan Approach: PhatBot   Phatbot is a kind of "Trojan horse," a type of program named after the legendary stealth attack because it let hackers take quiet control of unsecured computers. Phatbot has raised substantial concern because it represents a leap-forward in its sophistication and is proving much harder for... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - LURHQ -- March 18

The Future Of Online Collaboration: Good Interviews Ray Ozzie   The 50-minute interview that I have had the pleasure of recording yesterday, during a live online VoIP session with Ray Ozzie is finally available online. During this quite intense exchange we cover lots of grounds relating to Groove ver 3, its strengths, weaknesses, and some of... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- March 18

The DuPont Experience: Strategic Planning for Information Design and Development Organizations   Examine the strategic planning experience of the Information Design and Development organization in DuPont's External Affairs division. It describes why they undertook a strategic planning initiative, the proces used, the logistics involved in preparing for and carrying out the process, and the results of their work.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - EServer TC Library -- March 17

Organize Your Own Web Content While You Surf: Content Saver   Competing in the same category as the newly launched powerful Onfolio, ContentSaver is a new Internet research tool, which allows you to save and easily manage collections of Web pages, pictures, and any other Web resources like e-mail messages or PDF files. Save anything you need... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Macropool -- March 17

Find Files On Your Computer Fast: Rocket Retriever   Interesting and informal review of a small footprint, light and speedy document indexer and search tool for your PC. According to the reporter Rocket Retriever is fast, and it does all one would expect it to. If you have been holding back for a full indexing... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 17

Key Issues Surrounding 'IM Presence Awareness'   Someday your PC will be able to tell minute-by-minute how others should communicate with you, based on where you are, what you're doing and who's trying to make contact. But for now, it would still be nice if you changed your instant messaging status when you... Link | cat.: Robin Good - News.com -- March 16

Five Key Privacy Principles   A well written reference to setting the foundations for serious privacy management of any online Web site property. "Over the past quarter century, government agencies in the United States, Canada, and Europe have studied the man ner in which entities collect and use personal information-their "information... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Cobb, CISSP - via Computerworld -- March 16

Learning By Design   James Paul Gee , author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, treated those of us at the RIMA ICEM conference in Quebec City today to a lucid and convincing argument illustrating how today's computer games embody better learning than most schools.... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Downes -- March 16

RSS Newsmastering Tools: Onfolio, Search Information Manager   It is just happening: the emerging breed of RSS newsmastering tools is gaining new grounds each day, and I tell you, this is going to be a hell of a fascinating ride! Here is the latest one: "Onfolio's application is what JJ Allaire calls a search-information... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - [via Information Week] -- March 15

Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication As An Online Research Tool   An excellent review of what blogs are and why they are useful in online research. "The generous spirit of blogging permits the writer to leave behind what Anders Fagerjord so fittingly names a Surftrail for others to follow through the World Wide Web, directing colleagues and... read more | cat.: | Link Torill Mortensen & Jill Walker - [via Universe of Science] -- March 15

A New Kind Of Groove   Groove Gears Up For Version 3: New Beta To Become Available Today. Slimmer, faster, more secure, the new Groove, which enters its beta stage in a few hours from now, promises a lot of great improvements to a tool that represents a point of reference among... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- March 15

RSS Job One: Managing The Real-Time Information Flow   RSS and its tremendous potential are exponentially opening new visions and opportunities for how to manage, organize and access the vast ocean of information that is submerging us. To help facilitate the understanding of the extraordinary transformations we are about to see in the access to electronic... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 14

RSS Job One: Managing The Real-Time Information Flow   RSS and its tremendous potential are exponentially opening new visions and opportunities for how to manage, organize and access the vast ocean of information that is submerging us. As I have mentioned in previous articles and as I will not get tired of repeating, the synchronous... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 14

Faster And Better Results Than Google Or Yahoo? Try GuideBeam   The GuideBeam is a new meta-search engine designed specifically to help the user formulate a precise description of their information need. It is particularly suited for: a) non-technical users (who typically issue imprecise queries), b) searching of the type "I don't know what I want, but... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - GuideBeam -- March 14

Customisation Is The Future Of News   News publishers have failed to exploit new technology to tackle the decline in newspaper readership, according to online news guru Vin Crosbie. In a lengthy essay published on the Online Journalism Review on 4 March, Mr Crosbie says that news sites are 'dangerously dependent' on their... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Journalism -- March 14

Broadcatching, RSS + BitTorrent, The Playlist Format   BitTorrent is an excellent technology for P2P downloads, and one of it's emergent properties is that newly available files become widely available through BitTorrent far quicker than on traditional P2P networks. The disadvantage is that users have to trawl the web for BitTorrent pointer files that... read more | cat.: | Link Ernest Miller - The Importance of - Corante -- March 13

A Fountain of Knowledge   The great strength of computers is that they can reliably manipulate vast amounts of data very quickly. Their great weakness is that they don't have a clue as to what any of that data actually means. Computer scientists have been laboring for decades to eliminate that... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Spectrum Online -- March 13

The New News: Tuning Content To Context   "News in itself was not deemed to be powerful enough to attract readers on a daily basis. News is changing. While we share a common definition and derivation with our readers, the reality is that our respective expectations of what matters, what is significant, important, relevant... read more | cat.: | Link Jim Chisholm - Newspapers & Technologies -- March 13

The Twelve Commandments For The Savvy Web Conferencing Buyer   New conferencing and collaboration solutions are being announced at the pace of one or more new tools per week. New versions and upgrades get promoted even more frequently and in this avalanche of claims of "this-is-the-best-don't-look-anywhere-else" it is hard to pick the good from the average.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- March 12

The Most Dangerous Web Site On The Internet   Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman. Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would want. ... read more | cat.: | Link The Register - [via George Siemens] -- March 12

What Differentiates Linux From Windows?   What's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Linux Insider -- March 12

What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive   Ten years ago, many newspaper industry futurists hoped that publishing online might save the industry. But they poured their energies into multimedia and failed to use the technology to do the one thing that could bring readers back: create papers tailored to readers' individual interests. The... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - USC Annenberg - Online Journalism Review [via Stephen Downes OLDaily] -- March 11

Syndicate Robin RSS News Feeds   Carrying timely, relevant and quality news items on your site is always a positive addition and one that gives credibility, value and prestige to your own content. You can now syndicate (re-publish) the news feeds coming from any of the three major Robin Good Web sites... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 11

EU Attacks Copyright Infringement With Draconian Laws   You thought the chill was only for the United States? Think again: From now on companies in Europe will be able to raid, confiscate and freeze the bank accounts of those accused of copyright infringement. How do you like this newly passed EU legislation? While this... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - [via BBC News] -- March 11

Information Overload: The Future Of Search And Information Access   The online universe is evolving rapidly and many critical changes are taking place right now. Information overload is reaching, as long forecasted, new heights. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage it all, or even to decide what to discard and what not. In the end,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 10

Information Overload: The Future Of Search And Information Access   The online universe is evolving rapidly and many critical changes are taking place right now. Information overload is reaching, as long forecasted, new heights. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage it all, or even to decide what to discard and what not. In the end,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 10

Four Things Every Web Site Headline Must Do   "As an online copywriter, I'm constantly making the point that the text on web sites is not given enough attention. This is unfortunate, because the headlines on site pages make huge demands on the skills of any writer. If you're writing a headline or heading for... read more | cat.: | Link Nick Usborne - [via Jared Spool] -- March 10

More Image Doctoring: Neat NASA Tricks   From Gulufuture, a counter information site with very interesting scoops, here are a set of articles I greatly enjoyed reading just about one year ago. As the heat over the a possible fly-by by a possible Planet-X has greatly cooled down I feel I can now... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Gulufuture.com -- March 10

Freeware Utilities Greatest Hits   From the author of the Support Alert newsletter here is the freeware greatest hits of all times. I must say there are indeed a lot of good picks in this selection, and quite a few are on my personal list of daily productivity tools. Many are... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Tech Support Alert -- March 9

Mooter: Visual Search Engine Organizes Key Results In Clusters   Mooter is a new visual search engine capable of organizing results around key clusters. Mooter is still in beta, but it is already fully working. The visual approach provides a useful approach to explore large amounts of information in a much reduced time. The mooter search... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 9

Free Hosting For Your Digital Photos   Buzznet is a photoblog community offering free hosting space for your digital photos and mobile phone shots. They offer image uploads via your web browser and cameraphones using email, making it easy to setup your own gallery of photos. Recently they became the first photoblogging service... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Creative Commons -- March 9

New Search Tools Help Organize The Net In Different Views   A crop of new technologies designed to produce more sophisticated search results is challenging Google's market leader position. Eurekster, offers users "personalized" responses based on how long they perused various Web sites the last time they performed a similar search. The idea is, if someone finds... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - SiliconValley.com -- March 8

Macromedia Central Premiers Innovative Software Distribution Approach   Why can't it be as easy to buy, download, and run software as it is to do the same with music? Macromedia is trying to do just that with Macromedia Central, which strives to be a better way to distribute and run software. The first release... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - PC Magazine -- March 8

Better Than Movable Type? Expression Engine Launches The Challenge   Though many have failed to understand this from the beginning, blogs are and have been essentially content management systems for the rest of us. Both in terms of cost, ease of use and flexibility, blogging tools have offered to the enterprising small-sized publisher the opportunity to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 7

Better Than Movable Type? Expression Engine Launches The Challenge   From the same people who have brought us pMachine, an excellent and truly inexpensive ($45 non-commercial) content management system, arrives a new content CMS called Expression Engine. For those of you who have yet to make the leap from traditional bare-bones blogs to full CMSs, Expression... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- March 7

Track(le) Web Pages And Blogs While Being Notified By Email   Trackle is a brand new online service that allows you to check on pages in intervals ranging from once a day to every hour of the day. Trackle excerpts, consolidates and emails you the content portions that have changed on the selected Web pages and then... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Trackle -- March 7