Redirecting feeds in Feedburner

I don't want to lose all the RSS feed (or webfeed) subscribers I've built up over the years, so I asked Rick Klau of Feedburner whether I could redirect the feeds from NewMediaMusings.com to SocialMedia.biz. Yes, he said, and walked me through it. (This is one of the reasons I'm a huge fan of Feedburner.) Here are the steps:

Step 1: Go to your My Feeds page. Select the name of your old feed that you want to redirect, and click 'edit feed details.'

Step 2: In the field called 'original feed,' type in (or copy) your new feed (mine is: 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/social_media') and  click the button labeled 'save feed details.'

Step 3: Click 'delete feed' (right next to 'edit feed details'). Don't be nervous — check the box labeled 'use 30 day redirection'. Click the button that says 'delete this feed now.'

You'll be done. In my case, this sends all requests for
feeds.feedburner.com/newmediamusings to
feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/social_media. It sends a permanent redirect, so most aggregators will automatically update their subscription to the new feed URL. This will ensure that both audiences converge on your new feed.

Hope this works for my 12,186 subscribers at NewMediaMusings. If not, you can manually add my new feed.

Cross-posted to SocialMedia.biz.

New name & url for this blog

I began the New Media Musings blog in May 2001, and have kept at it almost every day for the past 5 1/2 years. That won't change.

What will change is the name and url of the blog. As of today, it's now the Social Media Podcast & Blog, at Socialmedia.biz. The new name signals what has been evident over the past couple of years: I'm writing a lot about grassroots media/citizen media, social networks, user-created content, home-brew video and mobile technologies, and less about the news industry. It also signals that this will be a rich media effort, with video podcasts and an occasional audio podcast sprinkled in with the text posts and photos.

I just turned on domain forwarding for this domain. All the archives will remain intact, so the thousands of links people have made to my posts over the years will still work. In addition, TypePad's "export" feature let me export all of my posts to Socialmedia.biz, so you can browse and search past posts there as well. See you at Socialmedia.biz!

BBC starts GPS-based citizen journalism experiment

mocoNews.net: BBC Starts Citizen Journalism Meets GPS Experiment.

Time overlooks citizen media sites

Good point from John at open parenthesis about Time's Person of the Year story, published yesterday:

Where were the links to places like OurMedia, NewAssignment, The Independent Media Center, and the Center for Citizen Media?

What happened to the many seizing power from the few? Is it expecting too much from a mainstream media story about user contributed content that it would point the way towards something better than just America’s Funniest Videos without a decent editor?

Digg revamps its site

Metanews site Digg revamped its interface on Monday, focusing more around podcasts and video than ever before. Some coverage:

CNET News.com: Digg goes deep and wide.

Journalism.co.uk: Digg added a Top 10 feature to its news and videos, as well as relocating its navigation bar to the top of the site. Digg extends its reach beyond news. 

Wired Blogs:  Digg  revamped its design and added some new features earlier today.   The biggest new feature is the ability to  digg podcasts.

ABCNews.com:  Digg Revamps Site to Feature Video, Podcasts.

Giving up on DirecTV sports packages

I've subscribed to DirecTV's NFL and NBA season passes the past few years, but I won't do it again. The leagues, or the franchise owners, have gotten too greedy. Couldn't watch the Giants-Eagles game yesterday because it was blacked out here -- 3,000 miles away -- due to its being shown on a pay-per-view Fox sports channel. Can't watch the Mavericks-Kings game tonight because it's being shown on a pay-per-view Comcast channel. That never seemed to happen in years past. You subscribe to a league, and you expect to see the games -- without ponying up even more.

Carly: 'My time in the spotlight'

AlwaysOn: A four-part Q&A with former HP chairwoman Carly Fiorina.

Eyewitness journalists

Washington Post Foreign Service: Regular Folks, Shooting History. Digital Technology Makes 'Citizen Journalists' Out of Eyewitnesses Eager to Click and Post. (Photo of Imelda Marcos, transmitted by the AP)

The rapid rise of digital technology, which enables ordinary people almost anywhere to record images and post them quickly on the Internet, is changing the way the world witnesses history, not to mention the dependable misbehavior of celebrities. Events that once were recorded only by human memory may now endure in full, pixelated detail, available in seconds around the globe. ...

Raymond: Two years of videoblogging

Norway's Raymond K. looks back on two years of videoblogging.

New at the Learning Center

New at the Personal Media Learning Center — some of it created by the Ourmedia staff, some of it republished with permission:

8 ways to shoot video like a pro

All about digital audio

A simple guide to publishing audio on the Web   

How to add voice narration to a slide show 

Video editing software choices

Self-publishing a book 

Top 7 free video editing software products 

Personal media glossary

Adding identifying info to music files

Fixing unbalanced sound levels

All about aspect ratio

All about the widescreen format

The Pan and scan technique

How to remix content

Five rules for building a successful online community

How to make a stop-motion video short

What EXIF data do digital photos contain?

Where to find photos for remixing

Updated:

How to record Internet radio (or any audio)