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Yesterday,  TechCrunch posted an obituary for RSS. Of course, many of the Twitterati nodded their heads vigorously in agreement.

While Twitter and its tools garner all the publicity as the technology du jour, it is not the savior or replacement to RSS. So don’t be so quick to toss that RSS reader!

Here are three reasons why we believe that RSS is not dead:

• Scanning through your subscribed content is infinitely more efficient than sifting through all the Twitter banter to find the gem or two of the day
• Newsreaders can display entire blog posts, images, audio, video, related links instead of the necessary, [...]

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BlogWorld Expo Sunday was another busy day for the ContentRobot team, and we concentrated our efforts on attending the keynote and the expo floor.

Rohit Bhargava, Timothy Ferriss, Mike Shinoda talked about building a personal brand. They offered these gems for thought:

• Be more interested than interesting
• Be vulnerable and open about your shortcomings and others will be more apt to help you out
• Be approachable, not an a$$hole
• Be consistent with who you are not what others want you to be
• Make a promise to your fans in terms of what you have to offer and honor it
• Don’t be the best in your category, [...]

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The ContentRobot team has added another conference to our schedule - this time it’s Web 2.0 Expo. We got an offer we couldn’t refuse … Free Expo Passes.

You can, too! Just sign up with the sign discount code webny08emp211 and you’ll also save $100 off the conference or get a free expo pass like us.

An Expo Pass gets you access into a full program of free events, sessions, and more. Use it to:

• Test drive the latest tools and technologies in a vibrant Expo Hall, featuring over 100 exhibitors
• Join your peers at selected networking events, including the Booth Crawl, after hours events, [...]

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This has been an eventful week for the ContentRobot team! Please indulge us for being a bit personal in this post.

On Monday, Dana and his wife welcomed their new son (Decker Scott Rockel) into the world - many congratulations to them. On Thursday, Karen celebrated a birthday - while certainly not a milestone, this web entrepreneur enjoyed her day.

What does that have to do with Web 2.0? Check out how social networking tools and life events converged:

Plaxo

Our social networking savvy friends and associates who are linked up with Karen on Plaxo sent along Happy Birthday wishes via phone calls, email, and [...]

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By their very nature, blogs are the building blocks of Web 2.0. For those of you who don’t know, the term Web 2.0 was coined by Tim O’Reilly back in 2003, and is defined by wikipedia as:

… a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.