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Seduced by Technology: Kurzweil Cult

I watched the Transcended Man twice now. I have both a love and hate relationship with the information. I admire Ray Kurzweil, the person illustrated in this documentary, for his imagination and visionary abilities–his ability to think without limitation. I do believe we are in the midst of great advances with the help of technological [...]

Date Issues While Exporting from phpMyAdmin to Microsoft Excel

First if your only problem is date formatting all cells in Microsoft Excel go past the part about phpMyAdmin.  I am including the mysql date format just to show you how to get your date formatted right out of phpMyAdmin in case you want to use CVS data only and/or planning on importing it into [...]

Social Networking: It should be about Quality not Quanity

Everyone knows networking is the key to business success, but isn’t the point of networking to develop meaningful relationships with people or organizations with common interests.  Instead it seems we are gravitating toward valuing the quantity of connections not quality of connections.  Pause for a moment and think of any friend or acquaintance that you [...]

How can I tell if someone’s subscribed to my RSS Feed?

How can I tell if someone’s subscribed to my RSS Feed?

So you have a website that has an RSS feed–which when a user subscribes to it, automatically tells him or her that you added new content. Now you want to know how many people have subscribed. Furthermore, you might want to be able to tell which posts are receiving the most attention. Typically, you cannot tell how many people have subscribed to your RSS feed just by having one. The beauty behind being able to subscribe to an RSS feed is the anonymity one gets from doing so–unlike newsletter subscriptions where the user must supply you his or her email address. So how can you tell…

What is RSS; What is so great about RSS?

My RSS Feed Symbol

Don’t know the purpose of RSS? Hear about RSS but don’t understand for what it is used? Would like to know how to use RSS feeds to save time? Find out what RSS feeds are and why RSS feeds are cool by reading this post.

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, can be thought of as a TV channel for the Internet. The feed, or channel, is used to publish frequently updated content such as news headlines, audio, video, blog entries, or other website content. To receive these updates, you have to use a a piece of software often called a RSS reader or aggregator.