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Interview with Robin Good on Newsmastering

Feel like you’re not getting the most out of all the information the web has to offer because it’s just so overwhelming? I really believe that optimizing our RSS reading practices can go a long way, but Robin Good of MasterNewMedia.org offers a more sophisticated vision in which our organizations have dedicated NewsMasters. These NewsMasters focus on using RSS, search, filtering and more to get us the best information on our area of interest as quickly as possible. We just get the good stuff. I like it.

I just interviewed Robin over at Net Squared. If you’d like to hear him explain the big picture of NewsMastering in his own voice and words – here’s a quick sound clip to go allong with the text write up. The full interview has lots of good details and links for online research in general.

Robin Good on NewsMastering (1 minute 30 sec) download

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Contest: Tag web applications, win web applications

This might be totally obnoxious, but I’m going to give it a try. Randy Morin of the RSS Blog began an experiment recently where he gives a free book from Amazon.com to the person who sends him the best link via del.icio.us by tagging it for:randymorin. Similar to Engadget Mobile giveaways, where a new phone is given to one random person who comments after a particular post. Those posts get thousands of comments.

I think that’s a pretty cool idea. It’s like in SnowCrash where people suck up “intelligence” information freelance about everything, submit it to the Central Information Agency (privitized CIA) and get paid whenever someone pays the CIA to access their intel. Hmmm…maybe that’s frightening.

Regardless, let’s try it.

If people tag their favorite online productivity product, service or application for Web 2.0 style info-management/research with the tag tools4marshallk – I’ll pick my favorite one of the month and the person who submitted it gets one year of premium subscription to any web service of their choice on me, up to fifty bucks. For two runners-up I’ll pitch in twenty bucks towards premium subscription to a web service of your choice. High stakes stuff, huh? I think it could prove more than worth it. And fun! At the end of this month I’ll profile the winners, their submissions and their selected services. Unless I have less than 20 submissions, at which point I’ll extend it to one month from this post. It’ll be great, and did I mention fun? Since it won’t be a for:marshallkirkpatrick tag, anyone can see the submissions here. Heck, if this works well then we could all vote on which submissions are best. But this whole idea might be really stupid, or at least in need of continual evolution.

Update: the tagging has begun! Check out the first submissions at http://del.icio.us/tag/tools4marshallk
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Blogging is good for search engine optimization

It’s true. Posting regularly, with links in and out, relevant metadata (like tagging your articles) and writing good headlines all contribute to SEO or search engine optimization. Want proof? I really don’t like to brag to anyone but my mother (hi mom!) but I watch my traffic logs to see where visitors come from, and most of them these days are coming in through plain old web search – not even blog search.

Check these out-
Google search for: good blogs
Google for: how to use tags
MSN search for: use of tags
MSN search for: Intro to RSS

I don’t see much in Yahoo right now. So all of the above search results can and will likely change – but when I visited them they looked pretty darned good. Count search engine optimization as one more reason why blogging is a good idea.

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Sphere is a new blog search engine

It’s all the rage on Tech.Memeorandum today. Sphere.com. Pretty good. I wrote more about it early in the day at Social Software. Having used it some more and listened to star-maker Mike Arrington interview the founders – I feel even better about it at the end of the afternoon. You might want to check it out too, and if you have an hour you might want to listen to the podcast linked to over there on Social Software.

Search for I.S. citations

Gary Price points to a nice search engine for citations in the Information Science field: CiteSeer. See, for example, this search for my most recent interviewee at Net Squared, Stuart Weibel. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to see all the features included. Nice.

I got to meet Stuart in Seattle after I made a blog post saying I’d be there last week. Thanks for making the connection Stuart!

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Quick links to some key emerging research tools

Things are nuts after some time on the road, but I want to post some links here for readers interested in helpful research tools I’ve covered elsewhere, primarily on the Social Software Weblog.

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