by Rob Cottingham | Nov 1, 2011 | Social Signal
Some big changes came yesterday to Google Reader, the venerable RSS newsreader that has become part of the texture of daily online life for a lot of us. The design has changed dramatically, in line with changes made to most other Google services. But t…
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 26, 2011 | Social Signal
I’ve been teaching social media fundamentals in the UBC and Emily Carr University continuing studies programs for nearly two years now. Early on in every course, I show students how to use iGoogle (and similar services) into a social media dashboard…
by Rob Cottingham | Jul 12, 2010 | Social Signal
Twitter’s relatively new Lists feature can be a handy way of teasing a melody out of the cacophony of incoming tweets, as well as compiling a collection of worthwhile voices on a particular subject.
But it has some frustrating limitations. You can’t…
by Rob Cottingham | Dec 4, 2009 | Everything Else
You may actually have seen this cartoon a year and a half ago, when it appeared on OneDegree.ca. My arrangement with the wonderful Kate Trgovac around any of my cartoons she ran was that I would wait a week from their publication date to publish them on the Noise to... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 30, 2008 | Blogging, Social Media, Technology
FeedBurner’s this great, free service that lets you dramatically improve the power of your site’s news feed, with everything from promotional tools to customizing tweaks to a very handy statistics package. (Still waiting to see it integrated with Google...