Library Stuff

Tangognat 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!!!

To 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 feed. Thanks.

There is a section on Del.icio.us for Google staff who blog. Neat.

I’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? Probably in the first semester of library school. (link via del.icio.us)

Update – Michael Fagan left a comment below saying that I don’t need to run the code myself and he is right. I can just put in the name of a newsgroup, and the feed is created for me. For example, this is the feed for Soc.Libraries.Talk, if you want to read more rants by Don Saklad. Only the titles are displayed. Again, I’m not going to use this service. Consider me the messenger.

OK, 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 because Karen didn’t “oversell it”.

So, does my preaching about a technology (mainly RSS) push people away from using it? I hope not.