Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
January 2005

How To Bypass The Newsletter Condom: Word Triggers Of The Microsoft Outlook Junk E-Mail Filter   "Beginning with Outlook 98, you get built-in junk mail processing, using either the Organize pane or Rules Wizard. However, results can be less than satisfactory, often putting wanted senders into the Junk Mail folder." (Source: "Rules and Tools to Filter Junk e-Mail") Many email newsletter publishers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Microsoft Office Online -- January 31

Private P2P File Sharing Gets Better: Grouper   Peer-to-peer file sharing has been a hot topic on all well-known technology channels on the Web during the last couple of years, with a surge in the last couple of weeks. Take the article The Shadow Internet in the January 2005 issue of Wired Online, for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 30

The Pillars Of Good Journalism: Thoroughness, Accuracy, Fairness And Transparency   "To the extent that we make thoroughness, accuracy, fairness and transparency the pillars of journalism, we can get a long way toward the worthy goal of helping our audiences/collaborators. Photo credit: Davide Guglielmo Maybe it's time to say a fond farewell to an old canon of journalism: objectivity.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 29

UN Pays Bloggers For Saving Its Face: Let's See Who Are The Real Blog Shills   I have just rejected USD $ 80 for the following advertisement from the United Nations Foundation entitled: "Ensuring Credible and Fair Elections". I honestly do no think Iraqis are having the possibility to have credible and fair elections in the terror climate they are themselves victim of.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 29

Meeting Online: Advantages and Disadvantages   "It was fascinating to realize how many aspects of running a business meeting online are true powerful advantages over a physical one. Many of them had never consciously surfaced in my extensive use of these technologies, as when you are using them, you are one with... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Corante EventLab -- January 28

Business Requirements: Marqui CMS Review - Part V   Marqui is an online-based content management system. I am on paid assignment to review and analyze their technology and this is my fifth article covering it. In my introductory article I have set out the basic requirements that a Web-enabled organization would likely define when needing to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 28

Best Practices For Online Reporters   "If an investigative team took a magnifying glass to your last big story, what would they find? What if someone attempted to surmise your state of mind at every stage of the reporting process? What if they recreated all your casual conversations, as well as your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Francis Good - Kelly McBride - Poynter Online -- January 27

Smart Online Marketing Promotion Tactics Via Content Creation, Syndication And Aggregation: A Good Conversation With Sharon Housley   If there was a small, entrepreneurial company to which to award my highest score for designing and executing a truly effective, cutting-edge, value-adding, and ethical online marketing strategy, that company would have to be Sharon Housley's one. Photo credit: Oleksiy Petrenko Sharon is one among three partners making... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 27

Surf Together With Free Co-Browsing Tool: Jybe   Vendors of professional Web conferencing tools usually pitch their marketing strategies at corporate buyers. Advanced Reality Inc. has taken an entirely different, very challenging and bottom-up approach by releasing a beta version of Jybe, a free browser toolbar plug-in that not only allows you to browse... read more | cat.: | Link Chris Duncan & Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 27

Transparency On The Web: Need Or Will?   Based on a book review by Eli Singer, of The Naked Corporation. Free chapter download here "In a world of instant communications, whistleblowers, inquisitive media, and Googling, citizens and communities routinely put firms under the microscope. Photo credit: Marcin Tusinski To collaborate effectively, companies and their business partners have... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Eli Singer - Slashdot -- January 26

Underwater Seismic Testing Linked To Whale Beachings   A controversial research project using sound waves, or sonar, to search for information about the asteroid that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, began early on Friday, January 21, 2004 off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, amid protests from environmental activists. Source: NOAA The researchers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 25

P2P Trackerless BitTorrent-like Application: eXeem, The New Kazaa?   Released as a public beta this past weekend, eXeem is a new Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing program that uses a similar download and upload component as BitTorrent. In less than 3 days, nearly 200,000 people have downloaded eXeem. The company behind eXeem is Swarm Systems, the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 24

Windows Sounds Symphony Orchestra: The Full Remix   This is a Flash video clip that I personally award for the most creative audiovisual sound byte I have seen in recent times. An absolutely great sound performance created with some of the most ubiquitous and underestimated sound performers around: your Microsoft Windows operating system sounds. By... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 23

How To Be Notified When Google Indexes Your Site: GIN Google Index Notification Tool   Released yesterday, the Google Index Notification (GIN) tool lets you keep track via email of what specific pages Google has indexed on your site. Free to download, GIN shows you precisely which Web pages are actually being indexed by the Google spider and notifies whoever you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 22

Educational Potential Of Video Games: Futurelab Finds Out   According to researchers at Futurelab, a British nonprofit investigating how technology can be used for innovative learning, video games have the potential to be highly effective tools for holding students' attention and teaching them about a variety of topics. Photo credit: Muriel Miralles This sentiment echoes recent... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Educause - BBC News -- January 22

Sharing Italy's Artworks Via The Web: Creative Commons Italia Calls To Action   There are many, many Italian public domain artworks, whose reproduction rights have expired or on which there are basically no copyright restrictions. The time has come to leverage the power of the Internet to make all of these masterpieces accessible to everyone. La Venere di Botticelli - Canali... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 21

Visualizing Databases and Spreadsheets: Omniscope And FeatureFinder   Following up on his recent coverage about OmniScope and its upcoming, lightweight, Flash-based counterpart FeatureFinder, Robin Good has just made his audio interview available with Edward Forbes, managing director of Iokio. The interview was held last week. Omniscope 3-step approach from data to visualization By listening to this... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 20

How To Measure RSS Traffic, Clicks And Impressions: Syndicate IQ   Being able to measure, quantify and analyze in depth the number of subscribers, clickthrough rates and channel preferences (when you have, like I do, many RSS feeds covering different content categories), is of vital importance for any online publisher producing and wanting to monetize RSS feeds. But... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 20

Alternative Advertising Approaches For The Independent Online Publisher: No More Banner Ads   No more banner ads. In the coming weeks I will be finalizing my full overhaul of advertising banners. Never my favorites, I have been using them to bring in some income only on the Kolabora.com site, where you can still see a few. But starting February 2005,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 19

Build Lasting, Virtual Conversations: Practical Tools For X-Events   Robin Good chose an excellent topic for his debut today on the prestigious Corante EventLab blog, joining contributors like Alex Williams, Tim Bourquin, Gregory Narain and Eric Rice. Robin's article, titled "From e-Book To x-Event", may be read as a sequel to the audio interview just... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Corante EventLab -- January 18

Publishing Your First Research PDF eBook: Best Lessons Learned   The new PDF e-book about the theory, use and application of RSS to marketing and publishing is out today. With over 500 pages of rich content and several months of background research, experimentation and interviews with some of the most interesting RSS-thinkers, this is likely to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 18

Why P2P File Sharing Is Good: The P2P Manifesto   Marco Montemagno, an Italian new media communication expert, entrepreneur and blogger, who has worked and collaborated with some of the most established media corporations including Italy's RAI and Murdoch's Sky TV network, has just published online a notable P2P manifesto, in which he shares his uncensored... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 17

Why RSS Search Feeds Based On Web Searches Are Important   The usefulness of aggregating, filtering and eventually publishing RSS newsfeed content is not something everyone, even the insider circles has fully understood yet. Well, I guess it takes a bit of direct exposure and exploration to fully understand where the meat really is. Steven M. Cohen, a popular... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 16

Buying Local Produce Gives Anyone The Power Of Change   Buy local and live free. The food industry is consolidating at an alarming rate. The top companies producing meats, grains, and other staples now enjoy virtual control over the markets for their products. Photo credit: Leonardo Novaes It’s gotten to the point where much of our nourishment depends... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ChangeThis -- January 15

Grassroots News Sharing Community: Take Back The News   If you've always wanted to put your news-gathering, journalistic talents to the test, then here's a new initiative that claims to enable any news consumer to "determine for themselves which stories and topics are worthy of attention, share that news with others and to have a say... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 14

Transforming World Statistics Into Visual Stories: Jonathan Harris   If you are interested in data visualization for the scope of providing valuable and entertaining information to a wide and popular audience, this mini-manifesto from Princeton University Information Networks Archive (INA), may give you some good inspiration. Prepared by Jonathan Harris of Flaming Toast Productions (now Number27),... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 14

Why BitTorrent Is A Wave That Can't Be Easily Stopped   "The people who have been fighting P2P file sharing systems, have turned a centralized system like Napster – easily controlled, easily monitored – into a fully decentralized system in the shape of Kazaa. Worst, as a further consequence they have given conceptual fuel to the birth... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 13

MSN Search Does RSS   According to Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch MSN has started offering Web-based search query results via RSS. And, yesterday, MSN made it official. "RSS Feeds for Search Results from the MSN Search weblog explains how this is an alpha feature for the beta MSN Search service and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Search Engine Watch -- January 13

Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements To Soon Become Prescription-Only Drugs: Guess WHO Sets The Standards   The FAO and WHO organizations are pursuing a drug style risk assessment on nutrients, just like those done for new pharmaceutical products. Pasqualantonio Pingue While the officially stated goal is "to define a “scientifically-based and internationally applicable approach for nutrient risk assessment” the actual one... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- January 12

Vitamins Prohibition?   Are you, like me, a health-aware person? Do you personally take vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements to enhance health and to prevent common diseases? Photo credit: Pam Roth If so, how angry would you get if your country was going to shut off... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 12

How To Safeguard Freedom Of Access To Information For Everyone? A Collaborative Manifesto   "Will the people at fifth and main have the right and power to read and write information about their neighborhood, or will the owner of a local franchise purchased from the city by a private interest (think about the way cable television operates) dominate?" Howard Rheingold “Nowadays,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Howard Rheingold - TheFeature -- January 11

Events Break Out Of The Physical Space-Time Prison. Time-Extended Conversations Are Coming: X-Events   Online (and offline) events should not be confined anymore to the physical time-space of when and where the event actually occurs. Photo credit: Gavin Whitmore New media technologies, communication, collaboration, presentation and content delivery and distribution technologies provide multiple and complementary pathways to extend events' reach, duration... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 11

Marketing Software Online, Recording Online Events, Packaging Rich Media Content, Testing Users While Video Recording Them. A Good Conversation With TechSmith's Roy Stein   Do software vendors benefit in the long-run from offering unlimited free trials of their tools? How influential is word-of-mouth reputation in promoting sales compared to advertising? Photo credit: Jorge Del Toro How can live, physical events best be recorded, enhanced and transformed into valuable digital packages, extending... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 11

Accessibility Requirements: Marqui CMS Review - Part IV   Marqui is an online-based content management system. I am on paid assignment to review and analyze their technology and this is my fourth article covering it. In my introductory article I have set out the basic requirements that a Web-enabled organization would likely define when needing to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 9

Best Interactive TV Ads: BroadBandBananas   Interactive TV (iTV) is widely available in the UK, but much less widespread in the rest of the world. Photo credit: Brian Alexander On the European continent the authorities and operators are still staggering over international guidelines and regulations and seemingly insurmountable obstacles like choice of platform... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 9

Fighting Back The MPAA With A Little Help From Some Friends   The MPAA and the RIAA keep suing not only individuals sharing and exchanging music and movie files online, but increasingly so-called BitTorrent sites, which allow a very efficient, fast and highly distributed way to get large files easily shared among online peers. But someone from the BitTorrent... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MIT Technology Review -- January 8

Online Tracking Tools   To be successful online you need to have constant feedback of how you are performing, who is linking to you, how the search engines treat your site and whether your server hasn't had any hiccups recently. More than these, in order to determine which advertising and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley -- January 7

Instant Reference Library Becomes Free: 1-Click Answers   Gurunet Corporation, well-known for its subscription-based service Gurunet, has just announced a slightly simplified, but most importantly, free version of their fact finding software. This web service is available to PC and Macintosh users and requires only a short and simple download and installation process. The... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 6

Automatic RSS Submission Tools: RSS Submit And FeedSubmitter   Getting your RSS feeds in place is not enough to get your headlines—and content, if you will—picked up by RSS indexes and directories. Robin Good realized this long ago when he first started offering his collection of RSS feed submission sites (RSSTop55 - Best Blog Directory... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 5

User-Driven MetaData Definition: Tagging From The Roots   Transforming the creation of explicit content metadata from an isolated, professional activity into a shared, communicative activity by users, is an important development that should be explored and considered for future development of large repositories of digital content. Photo credit: Justin Bird True: Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 5

Grassroots Cooperative Categorization Of Digital Content Assets: Folksonomies, What They Are, Why They Work   "A folksonomy represents simultaneously some of the best and worst in the organization of information. Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally chaotic, suffers from problems of imprecision and ambiguity that well developed controlled vocabularies and name authorities effectively ameliorate. Photo credit: Justin Bird Conversely, systems employing free-form tagging... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Adam Mathes -- January 5

Next Generation Hyperlinking Standards: Fat, Typed, Annotated   Each of the bimonthly newsletters sent out by Useit.com Jakob Nielsen is a little treasure of practical usability advice. Photo credit: Philipp Mamat In yesterday's issue, titled Reviving Advanced Hypertext, Nielsen once again breaks a convincing lance for the introduction and standardization of several useful hypertext features: ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Jakob Nielsen - AlertBox -- January 4

DRM Is Not Protection From Piracy: Is Protection From Competition   WARNING: THIS DEVICE'S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD'S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Cory Doctorow - http://www.boingboing.net/ -- January 4

BitTorrent + RSS On-Demand Personal Video Downloader: Videora   Videora is the first personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent and Really Simple Syndication, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. click to enlarge ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Om Malik - Om Malik on Broadband -- January 3

Full Tsunami Video Footage, Pictures, Clips and TV News Stories   Seven days after the tsunami disaster started hitting the poor northern tip of Sumatra, hundreds of video clips, TV news stories and thousands of images have stood as witnesses to the tragic event. Backward Flow in Qian Tang Jiang River, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China - 10/2002 The goal... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 2

Argentina's Economic Recovery Stuns International Observers   Three years after the collapse of Argentina's economy under IMF and World Bank recipes for development, the South American country's budding recovery is stunning international observers. Photo credit: Argentinian mate - Eduardo Cesario Defying the IMF's prescriptions, president Kirchner and his economic advisers have told creditors to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Health Supreme -- January 1

Web Conferencing Companies Need To Start Supporting All Browsers, Not Just IE   As I have been just reporting in this column Internet Explorer will likely not be the Web browser of choice for the majority of Internet users in 2005. Photo credit: Philippe Ramakers Internet Explorer has been rapidly losing market share since the beginning of 2004 and in... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Kolabora Latest News -- January 1

Most Searched Terms Can Help You Find Breaking Hot News Stories: The Yahoo Buzz Index   Wonder where the buzz is? I know that the blogosphere has lots to offer with lots of buzz references available on DayPop, Technorati, and some of the many other blog news and RSS clearinghouses, but, as I have just found out, mainstream Yahoo can guide you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 1

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