http://www.barbarafeldman.com/ I am a syndicated newspaper columnist, online publisher, author, mother, wife and Net surfer supreme (not listed in order of importance, of course). My weekly newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids" is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. My website gets nearly a million visitors a month, my newsletter list is over 80,000 strong, and my self-published e-books are sold on dozens of sites. Because I am often asked for advice and recommendations that don't have anything to do with "Surfing the Net with Kids" per se, but rather are about my experiences in running that business, I've created this site as a compendium of resources and recommendations. en-us 2008-06-05T12:08:23-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/i_got_a_facelift.html On Tuesday I had a milestone birthday, and yesterday I got a facelift. Okay... it wasn't my face exactly, but rather the Surfnetkids Content Widgets for websites: Daily Factoid, Daily... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2008-06-05T12:08:23-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/where_i_welcome_my_twitter_feed_to_my_blog.html I've always been a bit phobic about upgrades, so I am happy to announce that this blog has been successfully upgraded to the latest version of Movable Type. The only... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2008-03-25T14:41:47-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/blog_rush.html As an entrepreneur, I read a lot. One of the online marketers I follow is John Reese, who has just announced a traffic widget called BlogRush. It is a free... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2007-09-15T14:03:47-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/rss_in_plain_english.html Lee LeFever and his Common Craft company have done a terrific job explaining RSS in the following "low-fi" video. The "low-fi" is their tongue-in-cheek way of describing their refreshing paper... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2007-08-15T14:51:06-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/claim_your_feed_at_feedster.html To increase exposure for my RSS feeds, I am "claiming" them at Feedster, which is a registration process that proves that I am the legal owner of the feed. I... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2005-06-19T13:38:06-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/use_free_rss_feeds_on_your_site.html Adding fresh daily content to your website with RSS feeds is either incredibly easy, or frustratingly difficult, depending on your technical knowledge and how your website is set up. The... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2005-06-08T14:25:08-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/tracking_pixels_in_rss_feeds.html Dear Barbara, I am trying to get RSS tracking installed using AdTrackZ, which I see that you have reviewed along with other similar ones. I know you can put in... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2004-03-06T07:32:07-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/parsing_rss_feeds.html Most of my discussion of RSS in this blog (and other publications) has focused on: 1) using RSS as a personal tool to read headlines and newsletters 2) or, on... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2004-03-04T11:39:45-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/how_to_syndicate_a_column.html An audio transcript is now available of the one-hour teleseminar I gave last year titled "Getting Syndicated for Fame and Profit."... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2004-01-02T11:11:31-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/renaming_rss.html What's in a name? Plenty. Despite Shakespeare's protestation that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," perhaps not as many people would try to smell it if... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2003-12-10T09:01:52-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/building_amazon_stores.html A question from a colleague reminded me of a great tool that I use to build Amazon stores with my site's look and feel (and of course my embedded Amazon... Affiliate Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-21T09:41:01-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/rss_as_a_syndication_platform.html Most of my focus this month has been on RSS as a newsletter publishing medium. But one of my readers reminded how nicely RSS works for syndication with this use... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-20T07:40:26-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/surfnetkids_newsletter_in_rss_format.html What are the two biggest problems facing email users today? Ironically they are: #1) spam #2) spam filters Unsolicited email is flooding our in-boxes. Unfortunately while trying to fix the... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-13T07:45:24-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/rss_feed_validator.html As I am working on adding more RSS feeds to the four I already produce (see 'My XML Feeds' in the right-hand sidebar), I have found Mark Pilgrim and Sam... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-11T09:47:18-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/rss_readers.html Although Surfnetkids usually shies away from tech topics, I just finished a Surfnetkids column on free blogging tools/hosts. It won't be posted to my site for two weeks, but when... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2003-07-21T13:37:08-08:00