Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

NEWSDESK RSS Reader

Get it and retrieve headlines and summaries from over 5,700 news sources in 25 languages. Related articles Were You a Google Reader Power User? Try Newsdesk. (moreover.com) Newsdesk Feature Spotlight: Companies and People in Newsletters (moreover.com) Guardian’s...

Profusion Delivers

A few of my regular web stops don’t publish newsletters, push feeds, or acknowledge my existence whatsoever, so I have Profusion send me an e-mail when these pages are updated. I get an html page in my inbox with any changes highlighted for me. I have an Alert...

Outing a Mailwasher

In commenting on a New York Times article on the subject, Steve Outing (at Poynter) speaks promisingly of a “new” spam-fighting trend of filtering in good content and trashing the rest (as opposed to the traditional scan-for-bad appoach). You know, I’ve been doing...

Powersearching

From the folks at Powerreporting.com comes this comprehensive tutorial on search techniques. Without getting over-technical, this tutorial gives just the right amount of detail to help you find what you need from search engines (even Alta Vista!). Did you know, for...

Icon Factory

Add pizzaaz to your desktop. There are lots of utilities at this site to create or modify your own icons if you’d like to innovate. Related articles Media Icon Set (graphicelement.wordpress.com) Social Media Icon Set...