Some language prescriptivists (I’m usually not one of them) lament that we English speakers — particularly those of us in North America — thinking nothing of turning nouns into verbs, or “verbyifying.”

“I’m planning to cab, it into town tonight.”
“Oh, my God. Did you see that? She just Britney Spearsed it!” (many possible interpretations here)
“He really […]

Looks like the folks at the SimonSays podcast have heeded my advice and updated their RSS feed at long last.
As of my post last week, no episodes had been added to the podcast feed since July 20, even though Simon & Schuster had been publishing a new episode every week since that date. But […]

I was browsing TheNewPR’s list of business podcasts last week and came across the SimonSays Podcast, a weekly show from publisher Simon & Schuster about its latest books and audiobooks.
Take a gander at the show archives and you’ll find three episodes from this month, four from October, four from September, and so on. Indeed, […]

Dan York has an excellent post on the need to create descriptive headlines for your RSS feeds.
Consider this shocking revelation, folks: most people monitoring blog posts, podcasts, Technorati watches, and RSS news feeds have neither the time nor the inclination to read or listen to all of the content that comes into their RSS […]

Here’s something that drives me crazy: a blog or RSS-enabled website where the “subscribe” button/link/icon can’t be found with a cursory glance (in fact, it’s the very reason I slapped FoxNews.com with my first-ever “New Comm Road Citation” in today’s podcast).
I manage most of my RSS content in an RSS reader — in my case, […]

The why and the how-to of RSS.
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World Cup blogs - A collection of blogs chronicling the prospects of each of the 32 teams in this summer’s soccer World Cup.
Nuts about Southwest - Peanuts, anyone?
5 Meetings Before Lunch - Won a 2006 Webby as the best business blog.
CJR Daily - Media criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Inc.com - A roundup of entreprenuerial […]

Ten more links to compelling blogs and sites with RSS feeds:

Dear Elena - Touching personal stories from a grieving but hopeful father.
Open Democracy - “Free thinking for the world.”
Working as Expected - "Tales of a corporate hypnotist.”
Online Journalism Review - Journalism in the online world.
OJR Readers’ Blog - OJR readers contribute to the conversation.
Alex the […]

Here are the first five websites whose RSS feeds I’ve added to my Bloglines account. It’s part of my goal to find 50 new and interesting sites in 50 hours:

Mediabistro.com - Media industry news.
Comment is free - A collection of bloggers and columnists for the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK.
Jackie Danicki - An […]

Some helpful advice from Stowe Boyd on keeping your RSS feeds fresh:
Randomly drop 20% of your RSS feeds every month or so. Sure, if you stumble back upon an old favorite, and they catch your interest again, add them back in. But spend a chunk of time out there trying new voices, building new social […]