Archive for March, 2004
The Blog
March 6th, 2004I can tell buy the URL (and this page) that this resource comes from 2 students at the Queens College library school, which just happens to be my alma mater.This is a well put-together project (They deserve an ‘A’) with many useful sections. LS gets a mention:“Lighthearted blog that is less serious than [...]
Blog Without a Library Blogroll Feed
March 5th, 2004The always readable Amanda Etches Johnson now has a feed for the new blogs she adds to the blogroll at Blog without a Library. Hip Hip Hooray!! Oh, and do yourself a favor and subscribe to the Blog Without a Library feed.
RSS in your Toolbar
March 5th, 2004E-Week Reports that Infospace was showing off a new toolbar this week which allows users to subscribe to RSS Feeds and read them from within the toolbar. There’s more:“InfoSpace, likewise, is planning features in its toolbar release to simplify the process for subscribing to XML feeds. A setup feature called “Search Page” will scan [...]
Wired Article on weblog Attribution
March 5th, 2004Today, Michael linked to this Wired piece on the attribution process that takes place (or rather doesn’t take place) in the weblog world. If you’ll remember, this is a big issue for me and I was doing Jenny’s patented happy dance as I read through the article. I have always known it to [...]
Blog Binders
March 4th, 2004Have you ever wondered if your blog would make a good book? That’s right. A bound book. Well, a company called BlogBinders.com thinks that there is a market or it. Personally, I wouldn’t want Library Stuff to be a book. The matrerial is date sensitive and links change URLs all [...]
Trackle
March 4th, 2004I’m not sure how I missed this post from Tara.Trackle looks like an interesting tool that tracks web sites and send them to you via e-mail (DOH!!) However, the price ($1.95 per month or $20 per year) seems a bit steep for only tracking up to 25 sites. I might have to give [...]
Library Anxiety
March 3rd, 2004Yet another book I have to get my hands on.“Although the phenomenon of library anxiety and its debilitating effects on library use have been observed for years, it has only recently been studied in a systematic and scientific manner.”“Onwuegbuzie, Jiao, and Bostick provide us with the first in depth look at the origins and subsequent [...]
Amazon Offers Many RSS Feeds
March 3rd, 2004Dave points out tonight that Amazon is offering numerous RSS Feeds. I am only going to do a half-hearted “Hip Hip Hooray” on this news because I believe that Amazon should be providing more personalized options. For example, I would love a feed for any new books by my beloved Joyce Carol Oates. [...]
Speaking of Searching Your E-mail Client
March 3rd, 2004It’s amazing how similar tools can come into my aggregator at the same time. Today, click on Lookout, which is a free tool that allows users to search anything in Outlook including e-mail, attachments, contacts, calendar, and file system. Bringing in RSS into the fray, I see that some users have been able to [...]
Lurker
March 2nd, 2004Lurker:“Email is an ever increasing stream of information. Most people do not have time to read all the email that they might be interested in. This is where lurker can help.“After being subscribed to interesting mailing lists, lurker archives all incoming mail into a database. Old mail can also be imported. Once mail is in [...]
IRN Section on Blogs and RSS
March 2nd, 2004If you don’t read the Internet Resources Newsletter, go directly to your aggregator and subscribe to this feed. Go ahead, I’ll wait.Good. Now, you’ll notice that there is now a section dedicated to weblogs and RSS. Great news. I’ve seen all of the articles and resources mentioned (but I read everything [...]
RSS and Boston.com
March 2nd, 2004Oooooh. RSS Feeds for Boston.com (9 of ‘em). I know of two people who will be thrilled with this news.
2 Tales
March 1st, 2004Today, I received two interesting e-mail messages in my aggregator. First, from someone whom I met on the way to Toronto last month. We met on line at the security checkpoint at Laguardia Airport and got to talking about U.S. and Canadian politics. Not surprisingly, our views on the U.S. government were [...]
More on smart aggregators
March 1st, 2004Bruce Williams seems interested in a “smart aggregator”, like I discussed the others day. He writes:“What I’d like to be able to do is tell my aggregator (currently NewsGator), that “I like this entry – thumbs up on the feed”; or “this entry doesn’t interest me – thumbs down”. The aggregator could keep [...]