Enterprise RSS

Commenting in RSS (from: Barnaby via Scoble)

Echoing: 

Russell Beattie has an interesting idea - he wants a blog that is completely implemented in RSS. So he’s trying to solve some of the problems like how to allow comments - by putting the commenting form directly in the HTML for the RSS feed (you need to look at the posts in an RSS aggregator to see the web form). One downside to this is that before I make a comment, I usually like to read other peoples comments to make sure that the point hasn’t been raised already. Also the web form typically isn’t going to preload the username / email / weblog fields. I think a better solution would be an RSS / ATOM extension that allows an aggregator to directly post a comment.

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[Scoble's Link Blog]

Thomas Register Drops Print

I remember trolling through massive print volumes of Thomas Register to find anything out about any company … in the corporate library … OK, 25 years ago .. .but still; 

Another sign of the continuing domination by online vs. print: The venerable Thomas Industrial Register announced the other day that it will no longer offer its directory in print format. Thomas is now online all the time!

Distribution and production costs make the pure online option the only way to go for directory publishers.

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[Alan Meckler]

Link Fest

--Charlene Li is looking for RSS deployment examples -- beyond blogs.

--Lockergnome points to data suggesting 75 million RSS readers ...now ... and mentions that...

This just in from Forrester: 64% of U.S. advertisers would advertise in blogs and 57% would place RSS ads.

--Simon Waldman (of the UK's Guardian) speaks in Seoul to editors from around the world about RSS and news aggregators...

--The WSJ chimes in (via the Big Blog Company);

Some eight million Americans now publish blogs and 32 million people read them, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. What began as a form of public diary-keeping has become an important supplement to a business’s online strategy: Blogs can connect with consumers on a personal level—and keep them visiting a company’s Web site regularly.
- Riva Richmond, WSJ, Blogs Keep Internet Customers Coming Back