Posts tagged “web publishing”

RSS never solved its business model problem: publishers give away content for free with no compensation. Feedburner failed, AdSense for Feeds failed, and now Google Reader is dead. Tumblr's reblogging model works better for everyone: publishers get viral distribution, readers get a social feed that surfaces the best content naturally.

The BBC article on mobile blogging is worth reading for its links to free tools like Manywhere Moblogger, WAPBlog, and KABLOG that let you post from your phone, though they require some server-side setup. There's also a proprietary carrier-focused option called foneblog.