Archive for February, 2004
Gush
February 3rd, 2004OK, I’m going to have to play with Gush at some point over the next week. It looks absolutely incredible. Combine IM with a News Reader with the ability to “blog” via IM (they have their own blogging tool). I’m sure it doesn’t have the features that I need to have, but [...]
In the Spotlight
February 2nd, 2004Northwestern University Library has a weblog entitled In the Spotlight. (and an RSS Feed). They also syndicate the content on their main page and have a links page on the left hand side of the weblog. Great idea!! Duly noted for future presentations. (Thanks Steve for the link)
Marketing the Librarian and Some Other News
February 2nd, 2004For those who have asked, here is the powerpoint presentation for my talk about marketing using weblogs from OLA. Enjoy.Also, I wrote a little primer on RSS for the February 2004 issue of Computers in Libraries (scroll down).
RSS Viewer
February 2nd, 2004RSS Viewer is similar to what we have running at LISFeeds), but with an extra cool feature. Each feed can be placed into a topic folder. Neat! maybe we can do this for the next release. One of these days, I’ll try to download this software and install it on the [...]
Another RSS article
February 2nd, 2004I caught this one on Google News Alerts (which, BTW, I’m sending to Bloglines via the neat e-mail feature). The article requires a free account and may not be worth it for hardcore RSS users, but I enjoyed reading the last paragraph:“I’m betting RSS will continue to grow. Soon everyone from your employer to [...]
Will Aggregators Last?
February 2nd, 2004In a well-written article about RSS, Rafe Needleman writes:“Unfortunately, I don’t think either NewsGator or Scopeware’s RSS Reader are strong long-term software plays. Today I use NewsGator and think it’s great. When Scopeware’s RSS Reader ships I might discover I like its creative user interface better. Yet most Internet users will likely get their RSS [...]
PopHeadlines
February 2nd, 2004PopHeadlines - “allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them delivered to you through your email client. It provides a POP3 server which fetches items from RSS feeds and passes them on as normal emails. This allows you to read RSS feeds in your favorite email client - any email client. PopHeadlines is [...]
Feedster partners with Infoworld
February 2nd, 2004Press Release:Today, InfoWorld.com announced the availability of an InfoWorld-branded news aggregator using RSS/XML technology from Feedster, a search services innovator. InfoWorld’s reader allows access to multiple content feeds from InfoWorld, technology vendors, and other RSS content providers. The InfoWorld-branded reader expands the use of RSS from early adopters to mainstream technology buyers that make up [...]
From the simple to the complex
February 1st, 2004Geoff mentioned 2 interesting articles the other day: One, a very easy “How Blogs Work” publication from the guys and gals at How Stuff Works which I think I’m going to point to in my presentations. The second is an intense proposal entitled, Library Groupware for Bibliographic Lifecycle Management which discusses the merger of [...]
Bloomba 1.0 review
February 1st, 2004Bloomba, an e-mail client focusing on searching content in your inbox (and has RSS integration), was reviewed by PC Magazine.Sidenote: I’m going through some of the links that I bookmarked at del.icio.us but haven’t had time to read through yet, so these may look familiar to those that subscribe to my del.icio.us feed.
Community Aggregators
February 1st, 2004Dave Johnson discusses community aggregators:“A Community Aggregator is a portal-like web application that displays weblog posts from a group of closely related but separately hosted weblogs and provides synthetic newsfeeds so that readers may subscribe to the group as a whole.”This would be a great addition on LISFeeds. Here’s a possibility: Have librarians choose [...]