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Prior to joining EContent as Editor, Michelle was Associate Editor of EMedia magazine where she specialized in author acquisitions and editorial development. Michelle has written on a variety of technology topics including content development and distribution, streaming media, and audio, video, and storage technologies. She is the editor of the newsletter Intranets: Enterprise Strategies and Solutions, co-editor of The Enterprise Search Sourcebook, and edited the book Cashing in With Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers. This avid snowboarder has worked in book and magazine publishing for almost 20 years in areas ranging from pop culture to academic nonfiction, and holds a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University.
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS) may be really simple for publishers in terms of providing a quick alternate content delivery stream and it may be a relatively simple way to help avoid inbox info-glut, but it isn’t always so simple to integrate into an information-gathering routine. For the most part, RSS readers provide only the most basic functionality to do just that: read feeds. However, a few RSS readers out there are trying to do more—like help info-seekers find appropriate feeds, manage the incoming information for future use, and access it in different ways that suit a variety of needs. Pluck is one such feisty RSS reader.
"More, More, More, How Do You Like it?" Who knew that Andrea True’s disco lyrics would presage today’s digital information dichotomy? When you really need to know, quantity without quality just won’t do. Anybody using a search engine realizes that, unless you get a perfect hit on page one, too many results are a very bad thing. And if you are a researcher, the seemingly endless resources of the Web seem swell until you actually have to pull a needle of data out of a haystack of results.
Anyone in the content business who's lately heard a humming that sounds something like WebFountain but couldn't quite make out a distinct message, listen up. According to Robert Carlson, vice president of IBM's WebFountain project, they are "coming out."
For some industries, access to real-time information provides calculable advantages. Take the investment sector, for one. Successful traders require an almost extra-sensory ability to intuit the ways in which major mergers and minor management changes will affect a stock's worth. These shifts can occur minute-by-minute and translate into to hard-earned or hard-lost money measured in seconds.