A now "deceased" website on RSS marketing and RSS publishing - a look at the history of internet marketing

Rok Hrastnik

A Note from the Author: The RSS Diary is Closed

rssdiary.marketingstudies.net was built to help marketers get the most from RSS. However, much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.

Since I've moved on to other interests in internet marketing years ago, the site is now officially closed, and only remains online as an archive of a part of internet marketing's past. This is how we used to see RSS between 2004 - 2007. We don't, anymore, but there's no harm in having a small part of our past available online.

With that, I'm also making the e-book that started all of this, Unleas the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS, available for free download.

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Blogs and RSS: What and How ... or Why Don't People Understand the Basic Relations

 
 

Reading one the latest Shel Israel interviews again proved that many people out there, including quite a few prominent bloggers, don't understand the fundamental relations between e-mail, RSS, blogs and e-zines.

Why else would there be so many debates that mention e-mail and blogs as some sort of contenders against eachother?

I already wrote a lengthy response, but then saw that it says basically the same as what I already wrote in Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail.

And then it hit me ... the easiest way to define these relations, and it's so simple ...

Blogs and e-zines or newsletters are "the what" --- what you publish online ... the content side.

RSS and e-mail are "the how" --- how you get that content or information to the reader ... the delivery side.

And once and for all: it is impossible and higly illogical to compare blogs and e-mail side-by-side, because it's comparing "the what" and "the how", apples and oranges.

Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS
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Rok Hrastnik is an experienced international internet marketer and manager in Central & Eastern Europe, lead by the conviction that marketers should first be driven by measurable business outcomes: sales and profits.

He is currently serving as the International Internet Director at Studio Moderna, the leading CEE direct response TV & multi-channel retailer, managing their internet operations across 22 countries (Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Romania, the Baltics and others).