Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
October 2005

What's Inside Your Chicken?   Have you ever asked yourself what you're really feeding on when eating a chicken? Before you buy a sandwich, don't you want to know what it's filled with? Well, I suppose you would want to know the same thing before eating a chicken, no? Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Chiara Moriconi - Guglielmo Donadello - Disinformazione -- October 31

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 24   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new web sites, software tools and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online. Photo credit: Justyna Furmanczyk You are welcome to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good and Kevin C. Borgia -- October 30

Weblogs Censorhsip By Corporate Spam Filters: What Next?   While much of the online world crows on about the benefits of interactivity and community building, the plain truth is that such openness punching through from the open Web to intranets gives most corporations nightmares. Photo credit: Davide Guglielmo A Wired News article points out that it's... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- October 29

P2P Future Driven By Open-Source And Social Forces   It's been six months since the Supreme Court ruling, during which time Kazaa was kablammed Down Under and the music biz became more aggressive with cease and desist letters to major P2P developers. So where is P2P heading? ... Nowhere new. Let's look at the leading candidates. Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marc Freedman - P2P Weblog -- October 28

Printers and Privacy: Identity Tracking Via Laser Printouts   Color printers leave a technical fingerprint that identifies the source of the document, silently encoding information about time and date of printing, and the printer’s serial number on every page printed. Photo credit: Joăo Estęvăo A. de Freitas The Electronic Frontiers Foundation recently released the results... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kevin Borgia - Jason Tuohey - The Electronic Frontiers Foundation -- October 27

Video Does Blogs: TypePad Launches Video Publishing Inside Its Blogging Platform   The use of video inside blogs, news sites and other independently published web properties is about to take a strong acceleration. The pioneering and explorative phase of the online video publishing age is about to end. Photo credit: Gregg O' Connell Yesterday, SixApart the company behind popular publishing tools... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kevin Sladek -- October 26

VoIP Benefits For Small Businesses: Skype Reports   Small and medium-sized businesses are rapidly adopting VoIP technologies, indicated by the fact that long-distance call volume for SMBs is on the rise, and total telecom spending is expected to continually decrease. For the increasing number of mobile connected employees, VoIP applications offer the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- October 25

Which Revenue Streams For Blogs?   Business blogging, or how to make money with a blog, is one of the hottest topics that would-be independent publishers like to read about. While there are indeed many new and fascinating approaches to increase the number and size of your possible revenue stream that can be... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Chiara Moriconi - James Torio -- October 25

License-Free Typefaces: Vitaly Friedman's Top 20   Minsk-born Vitaly Friedman, tired of having to use the same old fonts or worst, having to pay for new, original ones, went on a week-long search to find free great alternative typefaces to use. He came up with a Top 20 list and promptly posted it... Link | cat.: Chiara Moriconi -- October 24

Best RSS Search Engines And Directories To Submit to: The RSSTop55 Premium Is Out!   The new, long-awaited version of the RSSTop55 Premium is finally available online. The RSSTop55 Premium, Maximum ExpoRSSure, is a 60-page mini-guide that complements and augments the freely accessible public RSSTop55 clearinghouse I have been publishing online, in helping individuals and organizations find the most relevant RSS... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 24

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 23   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new web sites, software tools and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online. Photo credit: Elisabetta Grondona You are welcome to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 23

Are Blogs Credible News Sources?   Are blogs credible news sources? Yahoo’s recent move to include blog results in routine news searches seems to indicate they are. Photo credit: Bjorn de Leeuw Blogs can be indeed be credible and trusted news sources, as Rathergate showed us. In fact, blogs may have in some instances... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 22

Participatory TV: Webcam Connected Opinion-Makers Premier On Independent Television Channel Nessuno.tv   I am just out of a live participatory television program, a pioneering and successful experiment by Italian independent and alternative grassroots satellite + online TV station Nessuno.tv. During the live TV show which went live between 9 and midnight last night, the show hosts showcased video news... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 21

Participatory TV: Webcam Connected Opinion-Makers Premier On Independent Television Channel Nessuno.tv   I am just out of a live participatory television program, a pioneering and successful experiment by Italian independent and alternative grassroots satellite + online TV station Nessuno.tv. During the live TV show which went live between 9 and midnight last night, the show hosts showcased video news... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 21

How To Publish An Expert Mini-Guide About Your Topic Of Interest: Squidoo And Lensmasters Are Here   A new service is about to launch that will allow individuals to create, manage and maintain "mini-guides" to specific topics, products, people and issues. Mini-Guides, or lenses, as Seth Godin, the idea man behind this service has named them, are nothing else that well organized web pages... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Seth Godin [via Stephen Downes] - OLDaily -- October 20

Mobile Television Coming To A Cell Phone Near You   TV on mobile phones is coming...and it's going to be big. If you haven't yet noticed mobile television is rapidly becoming a reality encompassing the Internet, traditional TV and the new grassroots revolution taking place across all media. Photo credit: Márcia Grilo Colonized in its early stages by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Kevin C. Borgia -- October 19

Open Standards Support Coming In Next Microsoft Office Suite   MS Office 12, the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship software suite will use XML file formats, allowing information to flow freely to and from Word, Excel or PowerPoint files to other applications and over the net. Photo credit: Myles Davidson This is a major break for Redmond, as... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 18

How Findability Determines Authority Online: The Wikipedia Phenomenon   I have a problem with authority. It's not that I'm independent, insubordinate, and contrarian. I am, but that's not my problem. My problem is with the rising abuse of the word amongst bloggers, wikipedians, folksonomists, and other social software activists. In the good old days, not so... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Peter Morville - Semantic Studios -- October 17

Internet Access In Italy Now Requires A Passport   If you are thinking about visiting Italy in the near future, and you plan on using Italian Internet cafés while on the go, there is something you should definitely be informed about. To access any Internet-connected computer inside a public service shop you now need to submit... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Christian Science Monitor -- October 17

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 22   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new web sites, software tools and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online. Photo credit: Mark Wagner You are welcome to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good & Kevin C. Borgia -- October 16

Free One-to-One Videoconferencing With SightSpeed   SightSpeed, the cutting-edge videoconferencing provider allowing Macs, PC and Linux computers to have fast and easily accessible videoconferencing at their fingertips has just announced a breakthrough offering. SightSpeed will in fact now offer unlimited 1-to-1 voice and video calling – for FREE. Watch this Video Mail... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- October 15

Virus Attacks To Major Internet Infrastructures Real Future Threat?   Are the virus and worm attacks of recent months preluding to a major disruptive attack on ur technological infrastructures? Are we prepared to counter such a possibility? Photo credit: George Crux What are the strategies and approaches that security experts would suggest to adopt to reduce to a minimum... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Chiara Moriconi - Clusit Newsletter [via Giovanni Canali De Rossi] - ANSSAIF -- October 15

Blogs Search Added To Yahoo News Shows Increasing Relevance Of Blogs As Competitive Sources Of News Information   New initiatives seems to be the key phrase for Yahoo Inc's end of the year rush. On Monday, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company unveiled a tweeked version of its news service by adding a blog search to enrich its experience. A keyword search for regular online news will... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- October 14

Blogging Guide For Social-Activists, Independent Journalists And Online Reporters   Reporters Without Borders has produced the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber Dissidents, a 46-page eBook describing how to successfully create a blog even under government censorship scenarios, or where speaking up openly can endanger the freedom of the blogging author. Photo credit: Danilevici Filip-E "[Blogs are regarded... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kevin Borgia - Julien Pain - Reporters Without Borders -- October 13

Interface Design And User Experience Drive The New Google RSS Reader Aggregator   Google has finally launched its own Web-based RSS Reader during last week Web 2.0 conference. The new RSS tool from Google sports a good set of basic features while providing, in my humble opinion, a great interface and user experience. The interface is all based on the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 12

Voice Email Is Now Integrated Into Your Outlook: WaxMail Sends And Replies To All Emails With Your Voice   The same guys who have recently launched Skylook, the cool Outlook-based Skype recorder, have given me the honour of uncovering first their latest free audio recording and messaging tool that is being released today: WaxMail. With WaxMail you can start replying to your Outlook emails via your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 11

Podcasting Guide, Search Directory And Music Engine: Yahoo Podcasts Is Out   Yahoo Podcasts is out! Yahoo too has joined the frey by launching its own podcasting directory and search engine. The Yahoo Podcasts clearinghouse integrates good search, the use of tags and an integrated player to stream any audio selected audio show in a matter of seconds. Podcasters... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 11

Seignorage May Pay Back Five Billion Euros To Italian Citizens   A Justice of Peace (civil judge) in the southern Italian town Lecce has decided that the Italian Central Bank's practice to retain the seignorage on paper money for its own profit is illegal and that the money should be turned over to its rightful owners -... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Rosaria Amato [via LaLeva.org] - La Repubblica -- October 10

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 21   Here is a great set of new tools and online resources found this past week. Some of these are breaking new tools and services, others are unknown little gems I have just discovered. Photo credit: Paul Harvey Feel free to download, test and try-out any of them. They... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- October 9

Keyword Marketing Strategies Using WordTracker Research Guide   Keyword research using Wordtracker can be the cornerstone of an effective online marketing strategy, and a recently-released ebook details how to best use the software to its full potential. Photo credit: Diego Medrano Compiled from articles by several online marketing experts including Robin Good, the guide discusses... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- October 8

Anonymous Blogging: The EFF Tells How To Protect Yourself   Blogs are an incredible tool for information sharing, communicating ideas, or just putting thoughts out in the open. But blogging is not a Teflon coating, there are dangers associated with these tools especially when the topic of your own blogging is the company you work for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Web 2.0 Examples: A Mini-Guide   Web 2.0 is a catchword for the new internet paradigm that is just starting to shaping the way you work and interact with information on the web. Web 2.0 is not a specific software or some registered trademark of Microsoft or Google, but a buzzword describing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kevin C. Borgia -- October 6

Publish Video Messages Online From Your Smartphone   "From Bloggers wanting to transmit video onsite from an event, to families wishing to share special moments with distant members, to first-on-the-scene Citizen Reporters transmitting as a story happens, to workers in the field needing to use video to get their message across -- anyone can... Link | cat.: Samc - Daily Wireless -- October 6

Search Audio Inside Podcasts, Radio and TV Shows: TVEyes and Podscope   The realization of the Long Tail and the opportunities it delivers to the small publishers, niche musicians, independent video-makers is tightly weaved with the ability of Internet entrepreneurs and open-source developers to design effective search tools that enable true exploration of specific media universes like books,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 5

Targeted Ads Go Live With The Yahoo Publisher Network   Yahoo has just announced that the beta version of its new Yahoo! Publisher Network is finally available. The YPN is Yahoo competitive reply to the wide dominance Google AdSense for the delivery and distribution of the Long Tail of ads. That is advertisements from small and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Yahoo Publisher Network -- October 4

A Knowledge Broker Path To Human Equivalence   As many of you know among the several initiatives and projects I support or am involved with, there is one that is particularly close to my heart and mission. It is called the Communication Agents Initiative and outside of the old, outdated official communications which I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 3

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 20   Here again today, like every Sunday, my selection of new media picks selected from all those greart new resources and tools that I have seen pass in front of my eyes but for which I have not had enough resources and time to create a specific... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- October 2

New Music Recommendation System Is Based On FOAF Personal Profiling   Foafing the Music is the first music recommender system based on user's profile. This means that, depending on what you like, what you listen to, where you live, you get personalized music recommendations. Photo credit: Nick Benjaminsz Foafing the Music is part of the SIMAC IST-EU project... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Oscar Celma - Universidad Pompeu Fabra -- October 1

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