Library Stuff

Last 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 the Furl server is down or if they go out of business. The users still have access to their bookmarks.

I hope Furl is here to stay for the long haul. I’ve been very impressed with it so far.

If 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 policy, which is becoming more popular as RSS becomes more mainstream.

I 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, if we can get wireless on the trains themselves…

Jenny 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 librarians; I hope they still do.

Heinz 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 display the feeds. Very forward thinking!!!