I've been noticing over time that I have a lot of subscribers to my content on Friendfeed. That's cool, but now that I look at the service, there's a lot it can aggregate, including the items I mark as shared in Google Reader, my RSS reader of choice. What I can't figure out is how to tie the two together!...

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I've been using a separate application to keep track of all my RSS channels on my Apple iMac, but now that I just downloaded the shiny new Safari 4 browser from Apple, I'd like to switch over to using its built-in RSS reader. Problem is, I can see how to read an RSS feed, but I can't see much else of how to work with RSS within the browser....

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This might be the last idiotic question you'll see for the next twelve months, but I still find myself bookmarking weblogs so i can go back and read them again. I have an RSS reader configured, but don't know how to subscribe to blogs. I use Firefox: is there a shortcut?...

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In preparation for a trip early next year, I want to start reading up on the news and contemporary events in South Africa. Now, is there some general approach to doing this with online tools?...

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Hi Dave. I'm a follower of your blog..its wonderful that you answer so many questions. I'm in a trouble and hope you will help me. :-) I have a blog on Blogger. Recently I discovered that whenever I post in my blog a copy of my post is being copied into a website automatically and that I am losing all my traffic. Not only me but also the same problem persists with another blogger... I'm...

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Now that I've learned about Twitter, I want to start monitoring what people are saying about both my company products and those of my competitors. Is there some decent tool to do this? Twitter certainly doesn't have that capability!...

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I've read about "Google Profiles" and am definitely interested in figuring out how to set up my own profile. I'm still not entirely sure why I'd bother, but can you at least tell me where I'd set one up within the Google empire?...

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I love your site. I learn a great deal from you. But I am stumped and need some help: I publish a small blog that I hope to monetize. With blogs I subscribe to, I like to read the content in a feed reader and rarely click through to a site. I would like to insert my own banner ads in my feed but have not figured out a good way to do so. I...

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I'm psyched by all the hype and enthusiasm and am seriously considering buying a new Apple iPhone when they replenish their stock here in San Francisco, but I'm curious: do I have to go to a Cingular/AT&T store to activate my iPhone? I am already a Cingular/AT&T customer, if that makes a difference......

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Is it true that it is not secure to subscribing to my Gmail Inbox RSS feed in a RSS reader, say Google Reader or newsgator? I've heard that by doing so everyone can see my e-mails......

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Okay, I'm dabbling with Google Reader and am finding it pretty cool except for one big issue: every time I start up the program I have to read their "helpful hints" and am forced to click on "All Items" to see my news. Surely there's a solution?...

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I have a quick question for you, Dave: I'm trying to bookmark a Web page at The Leaky Cauldron, a Harry Potter website, and Digg refuses to work with it. Does Digg just dislike Harry Potter, or what's going on?...

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Looks like you've switched from IntelliTXT to Kontera in-line adverts, Dave. But your implementation of Kontera seems to be more targeted than I'm used to seeing on sites. How did you change the link color? How did you avoid having Kontera's ContentLink ad links in the titles of your articles? Do share!...

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I'm a big fan of the book reviews that Thomas Duff writes on Amazon.com and was suddenly struck with the question: can I actually get his reviews mailed to me so I can keep up on what he's recommending? For that matter, there are a number of other reviews I've found that have very similar tastes to my own, so I'd really like to have some way to keep track of what they're recommending too....

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I live for music and have a ton of different musicians and bands that I want to keep track of. I know I can go to somewhere like Google News + Technorati and create dozens of searches, but, man, it's the 21st century, surely there's an easier way?...

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My daughter is a complete Neopets fanatic and has asked me to help her keep track of what people are saying about neopets in the blogosphere. I tried using NewsGator [see Searching the Blogosphere with NewsGator Online] but its search feed had too much junk included. Is there a better alternative?...

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I'm interested in watching how the online world responds to the release of the brand-new Volvo c30 coupe, and am wondering what tools are out there to make it easy to accomplish. I know that I can use something like Google, but that seems pretty inefficient. Also, I'm imagining that this is probably a more general question....

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I'm in charge of my company's market communication and am getting stuck trying to figure out how to ensure that our email newsletter is actually being delivered to our customers and, more importantly, what changes I could make to my newsletter to increase its chance of being delivered, it's "deliverability". Do you have any advice?...

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I've been really getting into this whole blogging phenomenon, thanks in part to your business blog, actually, but now I want to have some of the people on my team able to keep track of what I write about without them having to learn how to work with an RSS reader. My flash of genius: is there a toolbar I can install on their browsers a la the Google toolbar that would give them a...

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Should I adjust the blog I write for my company so it appears correctly when accessed via RSS readers? Is there a standard format in which the layout and content is delivered to RSS readers that I can use to ensure that my blog appears the way I want?...

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