The problem with KickRSS

I wanted to create a public RSS reader of all the local tech, marketing, and PR blogs. I wanted one where the new posts would automatically float to the top, so readers could track the local zeitgeist.

Alas, my Tech on the Potomac KickRSS list does not seem the work that way. It appears to favor the blogs most recently added to the list rather than the most recent posts irrespective of blog. Can any of my readers suggest an RSS tool that would do that? If you remember the old Blogdigger tool, you will know what I am talking about.

Mysteries of RSS

I have put my collection of local tech, PR, and marketing blogs Blogdigger and Technorati. Both feeds are supposed to have most recent posts float to the top. So why are there different results?

Tech on the Potomac Blogdigger edition

Tech on the Potomac Technorati edition

Why do they currently have different posts floating to the top? And why are some blogs favored over others? Clearly it has something to do with their RSS feeds; but what?

March of the aggregators

Contec Adds Three New Mobile Publishing and Distribution Deals

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 4, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Contec Innovations Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BUZ) has signed three new mobile content publishing and distribution deals involving its BUZmob(TM: 104.18, +1.14, +1.10%) mobile publishing service. Over 200 content publishers covering dozens of topic categories - including news, sports and finance - now use BUZmob as their mobile publishing service. Contec's new partners are EIN News, Blogdigger and BlogNetNews.

The money is in the aggregators.

RSS Explained

Someone finally had to do it. Find a way to explain RSS that maybe, just maybe, everyone can understand.

Yet another example of the use of video to explain a concept. This is going to get more common.