Archive for February, 2004
Lockergnome’s Ads
February 14th, 2004I just noticed that Lockergnome’s RSS Resource blog is starting to put ads in their feeds. Yuck.While I have been set against ads in RSS Feeds, I guess I have to start weighing my options. Is the content important enough for me to overlook the ads? In this case, yes. In many [...]
Regalia
February 13th, 2004I was trying out the new Vivisimo Ebay search by typing in my favorite keyword and came across this:
Wi-Fi at the Millennium Diner!!
February 12th, 2004I was playing with Wi-Fi Free Spot, mentioned today Marylaine, and noticed that the diner right down the street from me has wireless access. Great news. Now if I cam just convince my local library, which is across the street, to provide wireless, it will officially be my favorite corner in town.
Lockergnome’s RSS Resources
February 12th, 2004I’ve started posting to Lockergnome’s RSS Resource. Some, if not all, of my posts about RSS Resources/Feeds/Software will appear there. Of course, if those types of posts are library related (or will assist librarians) in any way, I’ll post them here as well. I’ve been trying to get away from loading up [...]
Bot A Blog
February 11th, 2004People invariably ask me for resources that will e-mail them new entries in weblogs (this usually happens after I push aggregators). I usually point them to Bloglet, which has been around for a while (although I’m still not sure if it is still running), but now I can add Bot A Blog, which has [...]
Professional Writing for Librarians - An Online Workshop
February 11th, 2004Rachel links to an online course called Professional Writing for Librarians, offered by ARL. It’s a 5 week course that, while the cost may be high for those starting out in the field (I know I couldn’t afford it), will probably help in getting started in publishing in the the library field.Here is an [...]
Queryster
February 11th, 2004Queryster is very useful for those that like to run searches on many engines (as well you should!!) but don’t want to waste time going to those other engines Just type in your search terms in Queryster and off you go. You can move from engine to engine with the click of the [...]
RSSgenr8
February 11th, 2004Many of you have noticed that Voidstar is now kaput. if you are looking for alternatives, you may want to try RSSgenr8, which basically does the same thing. They mention that they have tweaked the script a bit, so give it a whirl if you still need RSS Feeds. Now that Blogger is [...]
Harder and Reichardt on Weblogs for Health Science Librarians
February 11th, 2004Geoffrey’s blog is one of my favorite library weblogs. Every post is worth reading. You would be doing yourself a favor if you put his RSS Feed in your aggregator.Today, he links to a presentation [.ppt format] he did with Randy Reichardt on weblogs for health science librarians. This could be used [...]
Referral Log Reference Questions
February 11th, 2004Tangognat is having fun with questions typed into search engines that lead users to her weblog. She is answering them!!What a great way to work on reference skills. I’m going to try this out tonight when I check my referrals.
Jessica and the Chronicle of Higher Education
February 10th, 2004Jessica links to an article form the Chronicle of Higher Education on RSS. She dispels many of the misconceptions about RSS that are in the article. While author did do his homework on RSS, I’m afraid he misconstrued a lot of points that Jessica corrected. So, I’d read her comments after reading [...]
Xahara
February 9th, 2004I wonder of Xahara will give Booble a run for its money…(be careful…NSFW if you actually run a search).Wow…that’s two semi-adult sites in 3 days…I’m not going to make this a habit. Trust me.
RSS headline feed agreement
February 9th, 2004More and more content providers are allowing syndication of feeds only after the user agrees to abide by an agreement. I guess that this was bound to come up sooner or later. I also can’t explain why this makes me feel icky. Is putting a feed into my aggregator equal to me [...]
Somniphobia
February 9th, 2004I’ve been playing with Bloglines for a few weeks now and I’m hooked. You already know that.I am always on the lookout for other web-based aggregators (They are the future of aggregators, IMO). Tonight, from a search on Feedster for aggregators (which brings back amazing results, BTW) I came across Somniphobia, an easy-to-implement [...]
Weblog Tools Collection
February 9th, 2004I always love reading about neat tools that one can implement on and using their weblogs. I don’t use any of them, but like to pass along the information if I see it. I was a happy camper when I saw the Weblog Tools Collection linked from Syndic8. If you’re into Wordpress, [...]
Feedsplitter
February 9th, 2004Feedsplitter - Yet another way (this one has been around for a while) to render RSS feeds as html on any webpage. What is nice about this script is that the user can download it and place it on the server, rather than having to rely on (and waste the bandwidth of) the Feedsplitter [...]
New URL for LISBlogsource
February 9th, 2004After a few miscues, we finally have a new URL for LISBlogsource. It’s sitting on lisblogsource.net. Congrats to Greg and Blake who worked on it most of the weekend to get it running on the new domain. Of course, there is a New RSS Feed (full text) so make sure to change [...]
A few Links
February 8th, 2004I only had a few minutes to look through my aggregator this evening, but I found a few links that may be worthwhile:1) Interesting article entitled, “Gatsby in an age of Google”, which discusses books for young readers in the new technological age. (via DrWeb’s Domain)2) A list of projects completed by library school students [...]
Hot Links
February 7th, 2004Let me see if I understand Hot Links. It subscribes to a bunch of RSS Feeds (about 30) and displays a screenshot of everything that is linked to in those feeds, including a quote from the person doing the linking. Neat. There are different levels of linkage, depending on how many people link [...]
Copernic Tracker
February 7th, 2004Genie links to a press release on a new release by Copernic called Copernic Tracker. Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing trademark and patent research for the past 3 days, but it looks surprisingly similar to Web Site Watcher. (I’m not saying that anyone is doing anything wrong, I’m just saying they look [...]
Forum4Bloggers
February 6th, 2004Forums have been around for awhile and I haven’t seen one on weblogs before coming across Forum4Bloggers. I read forums for my consulting work, but not for my weblog work. I’ve been lurking on this forum for a few days now and I see a large potential for community interaction, question/answer sessions, and [...]
The Library - Strip Club
February 6th, 2004I never link to NSFW sites, but I couldn’t resist this one. There is a strip club in Las Vegas called The Library. The merchandise is rather bland. You would think that strip club owners would be more creative…Of course, you can always get a library card for $20 ($250 [...]
Library Weblogs on Libdex?
February 6th, 2004I had an idea this afternoon while reading Jenny’s post about her list of her member library weblogs. Peter Scott should start including weblog links in Libdex.For example, The Green Hills Public Library listing can include their weblog. Probably not a difficult project to undertake. Peter’s list has many library weblogs and [...]
Amanda is del.icio.us
February 5th, 2004Not only does Amanda have a del.icio.us account ((RSS Feed), but she’s writing for LISNews).Hip Hip Hooray!!!
NYT Article on Llibrarians v. Google
February 5th, 2004This article is going to be cross-posted all over the place on listservs, weblogs, etc.My advice: Print it out, laminate it, and post it in several places around the reference desk and by your public access Internet terminals.
Yiddish Google
February 3rd, 2004This is so cool. Not only is there a Yiddish Google, but when you type in the query, it comes out on the right hand side of the bar. Also, the results are from right to left. Too Cool!! (link via Del.icio.us)A few more Jewish-related links found over the past few months:1) [...]
BlogJet
February 3rd, 2004BlogJet - Yet another way to post to your weblog from the desktop. Has anyone created a list of all of these services? If so, is there a pro/con list with it?If there isn’t one, then into the “to do” list it goes.
Some linkage on information overload
February 3rd, 2004Circadian Shift has a little webibliography (is that a word?) on information overload that links to many articles and weblog postings that I haven’t see before. Bookmarked on Del.iciou.us for further review later on.
Feed Me
February 3rd, 2004Lots of feeds provided by Interglacial, which includes Book TV, Arts and Letters Daily, and McSweeneys, among others.
Andrea at Computers in Libraries
February 3rd, 2004My good friend Andrea will be spending her spring break at CIL. Hip Hip Hooray!!! I made my reservations tonight and will be “training” it down to DC on March 8th. If you are going to CIL this year, make sure you stop by and say hello…