You’ve heard the stories from the tech echo chamber. Posts proclaiming blogging dead and RSS too slow have been circulating around the web for the last year or so. And yet the blogosphere remains alive and kicking, despite the early adopter pontification.

Verizon has launched a couple of new services that make the Internet a more visible presence on the television sets of its FiOS subscribers, although they're not, strictly speaking, interactive. Users will be able to view Twitter feeds commenting on a show they're watching on the TV screen, for example -- but they'll still have to use some other device to post their own tweets.

Web feeds are a very important method of distributing data through your online network. Most websites or web services already provide feeds with the content you publish.Basically, feeds strip your stories (e.g. news items, blog posts) from any "strange" code or design elements and generate standardized output. Look at it as a very basic, simple version of your website, without any design (see for example our RSS feed). That way, you can reuse your content on other websites or services.

Popular blogger and publisher, Louis Gray gave a highly engaging presentation at the Inbound Marketing Summit on filtering out the noise and finding the signal in this age of information overload.