Archive for January, 2004
Gary Price and Chris Sherman: @ Your Library
January 22nd, 2004Neat!!! Gary and Chris are going to be part of the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library, part of the incredible series.
The Good old Days?
January 22nd, 2004Remember when Library Stuff was about libraries and librarians? I’ve been so enmeshed in the weblog/RSS world that many of you may think that I have forgotten about libraries. Not true. I was telling a few people via IM today, it has been a crazy week for RSS. I’ll get back [...]
Blogger now uses ATOM (and RSS)
January 22nd, 2004Blogger now has an information page for ATOM and has implemented its use for their blogs. In my edit features, I’m given the choice of using ATOM or RSS. Interesting.The good news is that everyone with a Blogger blog can syndicate their content. No more excuses people. Hip Hip Hooray!!!!!
More from Blogstreet
January 22nd, 2004Blogstreet really needs a weblog that tells us what is happening on their site. I hadn’t visited in a while and came across this RSS 2 Mobile thing that I’m sure Jenny would love to try out.OK, I added the front page of Blogstreet to my Watch That Page monitor, so I should be [...]
OPML Directory
January 22nd, 2004I’m not into the whole OPML hype, for one reason. I don’t think that everyone would want to read everything that I read in my aggregator (heck, I don’t want to read everything in my aggregator). So, if you were to grab and syndicate my OPML, I would want to you choose which [...]
Topix RSS Feeds
January 22nd, 2004G-Blog noticed that Topix is now providing RSS Feeds for searches on their site. I played with Topix last week by putting in my zipcode and I was extremely happy with the results, but didn’t mention it because it wasn’t RSS enabled. Now, I can get local news in my aggregator.Actually I can’t [...]
You Can Syndicate Any Boat You Row
January 22nd, 2004A column from Greg Conners on using RSS and aggregators to keep up with sports news. A nice mention of Bloglines. Also, he links to the numerous feeds that Buffalo State University is providing.BTW, the title of this post comes from Dig a Pony by the Beatles, which is great timing. I [...]
iTunes Music Store RSS Generator
January 22nd, 2004I’m not into iTunes, but if I were, I would use the iTunes Music Store RSS Generator.This got me thinking. How about libraries doing something like this? Providing feeds of different genres of books, music, and movies directly from the cataloging software. I know a similar project is being worked on. [...]
News Is Free URLs
January 22nd, 2004If you subscribe to feeds from NewsIsFree, you probably have been receiving error messages. There has been a change in the URLs for those feeds. Apparently, there has been a redirect from the old feeds to the new feeds, most of which happened without the user knowing. Now, you’re going to get an [...]
What’s Next: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites
January 22nd, 2004Interesting NYT article on Keeping Found Things Found, a project at the Information School at the University of Washington (which has been mentioned before on a few different library weblogs). My guess is that searchable web-based bookmark services like Furl will help in the process of keeping, annotating, and searcing for “found” information.“To allow [...]
Boogieplay
January 22nd, 2004I’m still trying to figure out what Boogieplay is. I think it’s working with RSS Feeds to create a search engine of sorts with images displayed if the feed has them. I did a search for Library Stuff and came back with my content displayed. Then again, I don’t have any images [...]
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
January 21st, 2004Well pour 3 week-old milk over my head and call me stinky. Steven Bell (StevenB for those that follow our debates) has started a weblog called The Kept-Up Academic Librarian. His goal is to help academic librarians keep up with higher education, which is different than LS in that I provide resources for [...]
Furl
January 21st, 2004Steve Covell mentions Furl,which is a neat bookmarking tool, similar to del.icio.us mentioned yesterday. I started a free account and was adding sites within 2 minutes. Each bookmark is placed in a topic for easy retrieval and there is a toolbar to easily add sites and search the sites that are in your [...]
Learning Movable Type
January 21st, 2004Even though I gave up on Movable Type, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a wonderful weblog software. In fact, it is one of the best (I just didn’t have time to learn every detail). So, I will continue to mention Movable Type in my presentations, which means that I should keep up [...]
Baltimore Sun via RSS
January 21st, 2004j’s scratchpad mentions that the Baltimore Sun now provides RSS Feeds for readers. There are lots and lots and lots of feeds to choose from.Caveat: They mention that you can use these feeds to put content on a web site, but nothing about using aggregation software, which, I assume, is the more popular [...]
Pubsub try out
January 20th, 2004I set up a feed on Pubsub with the search term ‘librarian’. Apparently, it checks over 100,000 blogs in real time and displays them via RSS. I’ll report on the results in a few days. (link via Scripting)
Web Site Mixmaster
January 20th, 2004I was playing with the Web Site Mixmaster to see what my content would look like on popular web sites.The New York Times
Yahoo!
Newsday
Google News
The White HouseThat was fun!!
Technorati Zuped up
January 20th, 2004John Battelle reports that Technorati is getting some new duds. Well, their beefing up their engine (not sure if that qualifies as “new duds”) which you can play with on the the beta site. It is a bit faster, which is nice and they are indexing blogs faster (within 7 minutes of the [...]
I love my job!!
January 20th, 2004I just got off the phone with Michael Stephens. I love that guy!!Which reminds me, library blogggers dinner at CIL anyone?
Del.icio.us - Yummy!!!
January 20th, 2004Lilia Efimova has been discussing her use of Del.icio.us recently, so I figured I’d take a look. I’m hooked!!! Basically, its a way to socialize your bookmarks, categorize them and put them up for the world to see. Each time you post a link (you can do so easily using bookmarklets) it [...]
EDGAR in my Aggregator
January 20th, 2004“Accelerize New Media announced today the launch of EDGAR Index(tm), a subscription-based service providing notification of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR(r) Filings via customizable RSS feeds. EDGAR Index allows anyone with news aggregator software to receive notification of SEC filings in near real-time. EDGAR Index offers a powerful set of online tools for creating [...]
Blogs at the University Libraries
January 20th, 2004As more universities get involved in campus-wide weblog projects, I see more libraries being on the forefront in these efforts. Take The University of Minnesota Libraries. They are working to get weblogs to their campus community. Maybe there needs to be a weblog about the various universities that are going (or need [...]
Great use of Library Association and GLF Money
January 19th, 2004Three librarians are attending national library conferences, thanks to the Gates Library Foundation, the Minnesota Library Association, and Minnesota Library Association Foundation. A wonderful idea!! We need more professional associations to work with their members, especially students and young librarians, to get more people to library conferences where they can network, rub elbows, [...]
RSS Aggregator Page
January 19th, 2004Lots of great stuff happening today in the world of RSS and librarians. The Education Librarian reports on a neat web-based aggregator that James Ellis cooked up for her. It’s the same concept that we have going on at LISFeeds, with feeds being grabbed every few hours and plugged into a database (again, [...]
Reading LII New This Week with RSS
January 19th, 2004I hate to have too much cross-posting, but I haven’t seen this on other library weblogs yet. Karen Schneider and crew over at LII have started an “official” RSS Feed. This deserves both a Hip Hip Hooray and a Suhweeeeeeet!. They also put together a nice tutorial on RSS using Bloglines.Karen [...]
Thinking While Blogging
January 19th, 2004Vernica Downey had an interesting post today about weblogs, RSS, and archivists:“Librarians, in general, it seems, are adopting RSS and weblog technology, slowly but surely. Yet, I would argue that many of the weblog workshops for librarians are “preaching to the choir” of tech and reference librarians. There is little in either the [...]
Newsgator via the Web
January 19th, 2004While I’m probably going to stick with Bloglines for a while, I might as well play with the 14 day trial of Newsgator Online Services. The one feature that I don’t see (and is now an essential part of my aggregation needs) is the neat e-mail subscriptions that Bloglines offers. I’ve always wanted [...]
Subscribe to your own Feed
January 18th, 2004Stevenf suggests that, if you syndicate content via RSS, subscribe to your own feed. I agree. Why?To see what your feed looks like coming over your aggregator. Do your paragraphs not mesh right? Did you miss a tag somewhere? Did you misspell a few words (guilty as charged on many [...]
Bloglines (Hip Hip Hooray)
January 17th, 2004I was going to post a longish essay on my new love affair with Bloglines, but this is going to have to do for now. I decided to try it out 2 weeks ago and haven’t looked back since. A few features that make me quiver with excitement:1) That “create an e-mail” feature [...]
Find us that book, you’re the librarian
January 17th, 2004Icontemplate is the best kept secret in the library blog world. If you don’t subscribe to his feed (or read his blog the old-fashioned way) you are doing yourself a disservice. Today, Nat is up to his usual antics with his parody of Piano Man. My favorite lines:“Now John at the front [...]