Archive for January, 2004
The Easy Bee
January 31st, 2004I downloaded the trial version of The Easy Bee this evening and played with it for a few minutes. It is basically a web site watching tool (similar to Web Site Watcher – WSW). The one feature that sets Easy Bee apart from WSW is that it allows the user to extract the [...]
More Blogging at the OLA Conference
January 31st, 2004Amanda blogged her experience at OLA. What’s that I see as her last entry (for the Jan 30th post)? Does she have a book coming out? Oooooh!
Infomuse & Jessamyn are Del.icio.us
January 31st, 2004Kristina and Jessamyn have started bookmarks over at Del.icio.us.Kristinas (RSS)
Jessamyn (RSS)When LIS Blogsource comes back to life (Hey Blake!!!!), we should start a new category for del.icio.us bookmarks done by librarians. Also, maybe we should start adding these to LISFeeds. Maybe we can start a folder for all the feeds from del.icio.us. [...]
10 Things to do With LISNews to Kill Time on Friday
January 30th, 2004Did you know all of the neat things that you can do at LISNews?. I didn’t.Probably one of the most important aspects of LISNews is to become an author. If you want to write professionally for librarians, this would make for a great start. You are not pinned down to how often [...]
Report from OLA
January 30th, 2004What an exciting few days it has been here in Toronto at the Ontario Library Association Conference. First, it’s cold. I don’t mean chilly cold, I mean I can’t feel my ears or feet cold. I mean tears running down my face from just walking out the the door cold. Here’s a [...]
Tangognat: del.icio.us
January 29th, 2004Tangognat is playing with Del.icio.us and loving it. Now I know of 4 library bloggers who have started bookmarking their items there. Any more out there?Oh, Tangognat’s page and RSS Feed. Subscribed!!!
Once an hour please!!!
January 28th, 2004To put less of a strain on my host, I ask that you set your aggregator or any other parser to hit my RSS Feed once an hour at the very least. Someone has been hitting it every minute. That IP has been blocked (probably not a permanent fix) from getting to my [...]
Googlers
January 28th, 2004There is a section on Del.icio.us for Google staff who blog. Neat.
Usenet via RSS
January 27th, 2004I’m not a coder. I don’t know shit from shinola when it comes to coding anything (ask Blake). If I did know how to code, I may be able to use this script to create RSS feeds from Usenet newsgroups. Then again, when was the last time I read a newsgroup? [...]
Jessamyn and Walt try out a few good aggregators
January 27th, 2004OK, I can see Jessamyn trying out aggregators (I’ve been trying to get her to test them out since April – not too much, but a jab every now and then), but Walt Crawford? Wow!!! I almost fainted while reading his comment on Karen’s weblog. Walt mentions that he’s started using Bloglines [...]
More on Furl
January 27th, 2004Last week, Sree Sreenvisavan wrote about Furl and gave it a big thumbs up. This week, readers respond, with comments from Furl creator, Mike Giles.Mike mentions that Furl now comes equipped with an export feature which allows the user to save their Furl bookmarks on a local drive. This is done in case [...]
Utne.com: RSS Syndication
January 27th, 2004If you are an Utne reader, you will be happy to know that they now offer 3 RSS Feeds for their content. Some of their content is fee-based, so you’ll see a $$ next to the articles that you have to pay for. They also provide an overview of RSS, and a Syndication [...]
Wi-Fi rides into Amtrak rail stations
January 26th, 2004I prefer to ride Amtrak than fly and I always look forward to my annual trip to Washington D.C. in March on Amtrak. While I don’t see Union Station in D.C as a listed service for the future, I was thrilled to read that Wi-Fi is coming to some Amtrak rail stations. Now, [...]
Jenny and My Yahoo!!
January 26th, 2004Jenny tested out My Yahoo! RSS Feeds Beta and reports on her findings. As always, she nails it!!! I had the same issue with the search option.Hopefully, the guys over at Yahoo will read her comments, pick up on her notes, and utilize them in the full release. Yahoo!! used to love [...]
Sort Your Subscriptions Alphabetically in Bloglines
January 26th, 2004Heinz Tschabitscher explains how to sort your Bloglines subscriptions alphabetically. I have sorted mine by topical folders, and then within those topical folders, I have sorted them by importance (to me). To each his own, I guess, which is exactly why Bloglines is so useful. It lets the user decide how to [...]
MTA Service Advisories by RSS
January 26th, 2004If I lived in New York City and took the subway to work, I would put these feeds in my aggregator. A great way to utilize RSS. (link via Del.icio.us)
2004: The Turning Point
January 26th, 2004In a fantastic essay, Stephen Downes, writes:“Personalization is about choice, and so not surprisingly efforts to personalize within an environment of restricted choice have not been successful. Even technologies that are forward looking such as RSS have followed thus far the brand-first approach to feed reading. You subscribe to Wired News, or CNet, or [...]
Librarian Spotting
January 26th, 2004Librarian Spotting – “is an activity that those in the profession seem naturally inclined to do. Innumerable articles and websites catalogue librarian sightings in fiction, film and other media. Few are main characters since the librarian’s role is usually a supportive one. It is easier to represent these side characters as a recognizable stereotype: hair [...]
Who is reading American Libraries online?
January 26th, 2004David Bigwood writes“Walt Crawford includes some kind words about Catalogablog in his latest Crawford Files, Starting a Bicycle Club: Weblogs Revisited. In the past such a comment would have resulted in a surge of new readers or at least hits on the front page. This time that did not happen. The number of readers has [...]
MailbyRSS
January 26th, 2004As many of you know, I hate e-mail. Also, I am not fond of mailing lists or electronic discussion lists because, well, they go through e-mail. For those of you that use e-mail as your primary communication tool and like discussion lists, I came across a new tool this evening that you may [...]
InternetWeek Adds RSS Feed
January 26th, 2004Mitch Wagner reports that he has started an experimental RSS Feed for InternetWeek. Clicking on the link doesn’t do anything, but it worked when I plugged it into Bloglines. I only subscribe to few technology news RSS feeds, but this one looks like a useful one to read.
No more PubSub…for me
January 25th, 2004I unsubscribed to my feed from PubSub because all the content that it brought, I read elsewhere. The database is probably not big enough at this point to satisfy my needs as yet another keyword RSS engine. I wonder if we’ve reached a tipping point here where these new services won’t do anything [...]
I like!
January 25th, 2004Adding to the neat bookmark tools that have jumped on the market in that past few days, say hello to I like!. I signed up for an account and am impressed (that said, I’m easily impressed these days). A few drawbacks: You can’t assign categories or annotate your bookmarks, and it is not [...]
Greg checks out Del.icio.us
January 24th, 2004Greg is playing with del.icio.us and loving it. His page has subject tags, which I haven’t implemented on mine yet. I’ve subscribed to his RSS Feed. Any other librarians with an account who wish to share your page, leave them in the comments below. I would love to get a [...]
LibDB
January 24th, 2004“This is the development wiki of LibDB, an open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset management system based on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (pdf), triples from the semantic web, and ‘the end-user doesn’t, and shouldn’t, need to know this stuff’. In English, this means that you’ll be able to smartly and easily [...]
ActoRss – IMDB via RSS
January 24th, 2004OK, this is too cool not to mention. How about an RSS Feed for any actor or actress in the Internet Movie Database? Just throw in the name and an RSS Feed is created. My wife loves Fred Savage, so this is in her honor. And one for Tom Cruise. And [...]
Housekeeping
January 23rd, 2004Two notes of possible interest:1) I started a page on Del.icio.us. You can grab the RSS Feed if you want to be updated.2) On the speaking front, I’ll be attending and making two presentations at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference next week from Thursday until Saturday. This is my first trip to [...]
Topix now fed into Bloglines
January 23rd, 2004I got a a note from Ken this afternoon saying that the Topix feeds now work in Bloglines. I just subscribed to my zip-code feed. Yay!!
RSS and ATOM
January 23rd, 2004A quick note about Blogger, ATOM, and RSS. It seems (and I could be wrong) that since I was a Blogger Pro user, I get a choice between using an RSS Feed or an ATOM feed. I can’t use both, it’s one or the other. It makes no difference to me, as [...]
My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched
January 23rd, 2004I’m going to have to play with it more (no time now – maybe over the weekend), but the big news of the week is that My Yahoo! RSS Beta has been Launched. I’m absolutely giddy about this.One of the issues that I see so far is that full-text is not available, which I [...]
