Archive for March, 2004
More (non) press for the well-deserved
March 31st, 2004There is an article in the Circuits section of the NYT about weblogs, collecting content from them, and searching them. Feedster gets a well deserved mention:“Many blog publishers, and some traditional news sites, have embraced the digesting trend by offering feeds of their content in standardized formats. A site called Feedster monitors half a [...]
Movers and Shakers Press Release
March 31st, 2004Today, my firm, Rivkin Radler, issued a press release [PDF] about the Movers & Shakers award that I received this month. Not only that, but the marketing department sent the press release via e-mail to the entire firm, which was thrilling for me. Even the managing partner, a man whom I have much [...]
Surprise! Education Sites Are Cool
March 31st, 2004From an article in the NYT:“Many museums had a similar reaction when they first encountered the World Wide Web. Even the stodgiest administrators knew it was cool, but they also sensed there were aliens at the helm. Now, after a decade of experiments with online exhibitions, e-commerce ventures and Internet-based artworks, museums are focusing on [...]
Amnesty International USA RSS Feeds
March 30th, 2004Amnesty International USA is offering up a bunch of RSS Feeds. Some of them are continent specific (Americas, Middle East, Europe, etc), and there are two for latest news and reports. Go Amnesty!! (link via Syndic8)
Google News RSS
March 30th, 2004Dave mentioned Julian Bond’s note about getting a Cease and Desist for his Google News RSS feed parser that he has been supplying for well over two years!! Which tells me that Google is probably working on getting their Google news out of beta. Why else would they wait so long?Anyway, here’s a [...]
Phishing for Word Bursts
March 30th, 2004As of 2:00PM EST, the word ‘Phish’ is number 9 on Daypop’s Top Word Bursts. Not only that, but my comments from yesterday are displayed. Neat!!
Info Bite
March 29th, 2004I just subscribed to the feed for Info Bite, which seems like an interesting weblog on RSS, Atom, Syndication, etc. It also looks like Antone has his own spec for syndication, with an chart on how it compares to RSS and Atom. I’ve said it before: I don’t care what they call it [...]
Is RSS Pretty?
March 29th, 2004Joshua Allen writes:“Now if you look at my RSS feed, it looks pretty.”“Gina Venolia recently did some research on blog usage patterns, and found that many blog consumers never successfully make the transition to using an aggregator. One common thread in our internal discussions is that the orange XML icon is kind of geeky, [...]
CardFile.org
March 29th, 2004The concept behind CardFile is not new. Put all of your information in, get an RSS Feed, supply that feed to your friends, and when you want to notify anyone of any changes in your data, just change it, and it will be fed into the RSS Feed (or e-mail) and everyone who subscribes [...]
Digital Lifestyle Aggregation
March 29th, 2004Marc Cantor Writes“Imagine a next generation MyYahoo service which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal (and their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided them with home publishing capabilities to create, store and distribute their own content. Imagine a social networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and enabled [...]
InformIT RSS Feeds
March 28th, 2004InformIT is now providing RSS Feeds for their Reference Guides. I subscribed to the one dedicated to XML. They are also coming out with some for their articles and sample chapters. (link via Topix Blogs)
10,000 shows over at The Internet Archive
March 27th, 2004Congratulations to Brewster and crew over at the Internet Archive for the upload of their 10,000th live show. And for you Grateful Dead fans, look out for a bunch of shows to be available. Hey, Greg, can I get a “Hip Hip Hooray” and a “Whoot Whoot”?So far, there are 96 shows from 1979 [...]
ODP to index RSS Feeds
March 27th, 2004I just read this over at the ODP Weblog:“Alongside standard HTML web sites and PDF documents, we’re now accepting RSS feeds as listings in the directory. There’s no change in the submission process but in future categories will start showing ‘XML’ sections with links to related RSS feeds.”Jenny, Peter Scott, and I had a brief [...]
Thanks
March 26th, 2004From the bottom of my heart, thank you for all of your kind and encouraging notes, both in the comments and e-mail. I’ll reply as soon as I can. Just a few announcements before I get to bed.1) I was so excited to have been nominated and win a Library Journal Mover and [...]
National Cyber Alert System
March 25th, 2004“The National Cyber Alert System warns of cyber threats and vulnerabilities, and offers advice and solutions.”And now they have a bunch of technical and non-technical RSS Feeds. Subscribed!!!! and Suhweeeeeeet!!! (link via Syndic8)
Hello
March 24th, 2004First, thank you all for your kind and thoughtful comments and e-mails over the past few weeks. They have meant more to me than can be expressed in words.Second, I wanted to check in and write a bit about my absence. While at the Computers in Libraries conference, I had what is being described [...]
Hiatus
March 12th, 2004Library Stuff will be on indefinite hiatus. It’s a very very long story, one that I will probably write up later (not sure when). Right now, I need a break; which means no blogging, no IM, no aggregator, and plenty of rest, excercise, and family time. I appreciate all of your clicks [...]
MyRssAlerts.com
March 9th, 2004“MyRssAlerts is “a server-based subscription mechanism that watches Weblogs and other RSS sources on your behalf and then sends email alerts when new articles are posted.”There are many of these popping up again, which I’m glad to see. Many conference attendees asked me today about getting updated about new weblog content via e-mail, and [...]
BioMed Central RSS Feeds
March 9th, 2004Biomed Central, “an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research”, has implemented RSS Feeds for their content, including abstracts for articles that appear in all their journals. To create a feed for the journal of your choice, just add /rss/ at the end of the URL.We were talking [...]
Me? At the Prom? How exciting!!!
March 9th, 2004I created an ego feed on pubsub and it sometimes gets false hits, like this one:“I’ve done the unthinkable. I have taken my fate into my own hands and asked Stephen Cohen to prom. I’ve been planning on doing it for a long time, but then I thought, the worst he could do is hate [...]
A Picture Share!
March 9th, 2004
A Picture Share!
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A Picture Share!
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A Picture Share!
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A Picture Share!
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A Picture Share!
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A Picture Share!
March 8th, 2004Thank heavens for Kinko's!
Library Stuff Moblog?
March 8th, 2004Next week, I’ll be getting a digital camera, so look for a photoblog to start up around that time.So, I’m in D.C. and Jenny and I just got back from a one mile walk to the closest Kinkos to make copies for our presentation, which is tomorrow AM. She took a picture of me [...]
Can RSS Relieve Information Overload?
March 8th, 2004A lengthy article appeared in Econtent Magazine today, entitled, Can RSS Relieve Information Overload?. Our good buddy Karen Schneider is quoted in a sidebar (scroll down), which I’m quoting here in full:“Karen Schneider is the library director for the state of California’s library Web portal, Librarian’s Index to the Internet. As a librarian, she’s [...]
Costa Mesa tries RSS for news
March 8th, 2004Before reading the entire article about the city of Costa Mesa trying out RSS, printed in FCW, I jumped over to the site to check out the feeds. I had a hard time finding them (even autodiscovery failed) so I jumped back into the article and read this:“The RSS feed is being used to [...]