"Preliminary version of Spanish-language site, "soft-launched" for testing, to enter beta in about two weeks."

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"In an attempt to help bloggers track down content theft and copyright violations, MaxPower.ca has created the Digital Fingerprint Detecting Content Theft WordPress Plugin for full version WordPress blogs. The plugin injects a “digital fingerprint” manually into your posts which is seen only in your feeds, not in the post itself."

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The local newspaper for Sioux Falls, SD contains an article about an online service called Feed Rinse. The service "can rinse your feeds by keyword, author, tag, etc, or filter profanity and more." According to the article, the service is making national headlines on their Feed Rinse product. I've never used the service, so I can't really give it thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Some excerpts from the Argus Leader:

Blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick said of FeedRinse: "A very nice feature that we don't have to hack and work around to make happen anymore."

The Associated Press dispatched a favorable review this week. Technology writer Brian Bergstein said, "I can see where the site could be a little simpler to use, but for the most part, it was clean, easy to figure out and worked as advertised."

That review appeared on dozens of prominent Web sites, including washingtonpost.com and ABC.com.

Ok so it may be a great product, but I think many reading the newspaper still do not quite get what a Web Feed is exactly. The following is a little bit of my explanation on what a Web feed is all about.