Archive for April, 2004
Marriage Feed Update
April 30th, 2004I’ve added Outlet Wire to the Marriage Group. It looks like a great news resource. Also, I’ve taken out all of the Yahoo News. Does anyone have any suggestions to how to get the Yahoo News search for this issue onto a feed? Zawodny’s feed, while having the greatest of intentions, [...]
Same-Sex Marriage Feed
April 28th, 2004I’ve been reading a lot (both online and off) on the same-sex marriage issue that has knocked this country on its heels (as well it should). I surfed around for a good weblog that would keep me up to date, but couldn’t find anything substantial nor as inclusive as I would have hoped. [...]
RSS Quotes
April 27th, 2004I don’t follow the stocks (my brother does), but if I did, then RSS Quotes would be a neat tool to utilize. BTW, Pubsub does the same thing (although I haven’t played with either of these)(RSS Quotes link via Michael Fagan’s Del.icio.us Page, which has been putting out great stuff lately)
One Start
April 27th, 2004Via Weblogs in Higher Education:“Indiana University is building a portal for many campus services, called One Start. Students, faculty, and staff will contact many electronic resources through a single login, many of them fed by RSS. This will mean that units on campus will have a good reason to learn more about creating and using [...]
Gmail Gems
April 26th, 2004Ooooh… a weblog about tips and tricks with using Gmail. Subscribed!! (link via Del.icio.us)I have been using Gmail and have been somewhat impressed. I probably won’t comment on it, but I’m glad to have received a chance to play with the software.My brother (a stockbroker) e-mailed me this morning in anticipation of owning [...]
The simple elegance of Shameless Self-Promotion
April 26th, 2004I was browsing through the latest issue of AALL Spectrum (GASP, a print resource) and came across a fantastic article (page 6) [PDF] about a librarian who sends out a daily e-mail summary of Stanford faculty/students/staff (basically anyone) who has made news. And how does he do it? By setting up keyword searches on [...]
Weblogs and RSS in Information Work
April 26th, 2004Gary Price linked to this article on how weblogs can be used in libraries. While the issue has been brought up before (and there is not anything mindblowing about the content here, although it is a well-written overview), I always feel the necessity to share these pieces as they display the continuous push toward [...]
In a world of Inforuption, love is a killer app
April 25th, 2004Take a look at this interview with Tim Sanders, entitled, “Do you suffer from new economy depression syndrome?”. First, the term ‘Inforuption’ is awesome, one which I will be using in my future talks on Keeping Current. That term can be paralleled to another term, NEDS:“NEDS is an acronym for new economy depression [...]
How to reach me
April 25th, 2004The e-mail address steven [at] librarystuff.net was getting spammed a lot (500 messages today alone), so I’ve deleted the account. If you want to reach me, use my contact form, or via IM (NYlibrarian). Sorry for any inconvenience.
Michael’s Great List and Some Comments
April 23rd, 2004I would like to give Michael a standing ovation for his post on the 10 Things I’ve Learned Presenting at Library Conferences, especially number 6: Be mindful of acronyms.After doing an entire 45 minute presentation on tips for keeping up at CIL this year (in which RSS was mentioned many times throughout), one attendee asked, [...]
Staying Up to Date in the ever-changing Web Search World
April 22nd, 2004Rita Vine (a colleague, we’ve met a few times, lovely woman) has written an article [PDF] on keeping current. She mentions RSS, plus goals for current awareness, which is an important part of keeping current which I don’t mention as often as I should. Why do we keep current? What’s in it [...]
Tara adds a few to the fray
April 22nd, 2004Tara at Research Buzz mentions a few more universities and libraries that are trying out RSS.UC Berkeley, the University of Arizona, and The Minnesota Public Library. Those Minnesotans really have their RSS and blogging shoes on. Good for them.
What is Jeopardy…
April 22nd, 2004Nat was selected to audition for Jeopardy!! Make us proud!!!
Gmail Tryouts at Blogger
April 21st, 2004Am I one of the lucky few who is getting a shot to sign up for Gmail after logging into Blogger? Now, I used to be a Blogger Pro user (and still use it), which may be why I saw the invitation (they say “active” member, but I’m not sure what that means). [...]
Law Firms, Weblogs, and Marketing
April 21st, 2004As I gear up my firm for possible weblog blitz (I still have to wrote up my proposals for the BMOCs), I smiled as I read this from Jerry Lawson:“I believe this method of marketing has fantastic potential. The most promising route to success is likely to be ‘narrowcasting,’ or tightly focused marketing. Instead of [...]
Radio Blog Club
April 21st, 2004When I first looked at Radio Blog Club, which allows weblog writers to stream music onto their blog, I thought, “big whoop”, but then I thought a bit about public libraries (I’m in the middle of writing a primer on weblogs and libraries), and realized that those libraries that are incorporating their library catalogs with [...]
CBS 2 Chicago
April 21st, 2004CBS 2 Chicago is one of the many news networks that understand the power of RSS to deliver content to their readers, with 13 feeds (I can even get an Andy Rooney Feed – Hip Hip Hooray!!) I am going to assume that more newspapers have RSS feeds than television news programs that have [...]
Unalog!
April 20th, 2004Yet another resource to add to my article on the social bookmarking tools, one written by a librarian for goodness sakes (I think Dan created it, his name is all over the place). Unalog is similar to del.icio.us in that one creates a web-based bookmarking tool. Each bookmark can be annotated, which is [...]
Review of Furl
April 19th, 2004John Battelle has a review of Furl. First, if you are into search engines and don’t read John Battelle (yes, he has an RSS Feed, then you are doing yourself a disservice.Second, a few quotes from his post:“Mike started Furl about a year ago to solve a problem he – and a lot of us [...]
Christina’s BloggerCon Rant and more
April 19th, 2004Christina attended the BloggerCon session on librarianship and has a recap.I was however, more impressed with her article [PDF] on weblog searching that appears in the current issue of b/ite. She has some interesting ways to search blog content in the major engines, like using the term “archives” within a URL search (like this. [...]
LISBlogsource Idea
April 17th, 2004I had an idea for LISBlogsource that I thought I would run by you guys. Would it be useful to have a “subscribe to this feed” at the end of the each post, for easy one-click subscription in numerous aggregators? I think so!! And quickSub would be perfect for this. Now if [...]
NewsIsFree Steps it up
April 17th, 2004While I still find it ironic that users have to pay $20 in order to get premium services at NewsIsFree, this is still one of the mot valuable RSS resources out there. Today, I read that they have stepped it up a bit, with a bunch of new features, including a re-design of the [...]
Can’t Find On Google
April 16th, 2004From the “cute” department – Can’t Find On Google:“Welcome to Can’t Find On Google. Most of the time, you punch what you want to know into Google, and you instantly get what you’re looking for. But have you ever had that experience, where you try query after query and no matter how hard you [...]
Serials via RSS
April 16th, 2004Owen Stephens made my week by posting this in my comments:“We’ve got a recent books rss at http://library.rhul.ac.uk/rss-feeds/recentlibraryacquisitions.xml. I’ve also done a recent serial issues at http://library.rhul.ac.uk/rss-feeds/recentlibraryserialissues.xml which uses OpenURL to provide a Full-text or TOC service for each title where we can.”The recent serials feed blows me away. The fact that he [...]
Gary in the NYT
April 16th, 2004My good friend Gary Price had a letter to the editor printed in the NYT yesterday. Scroll down a bit. I’m sure Peter Scott will be thrilled about the mention of Libdex, even though they put in an extra ‘w’ in the link URL.A great little piece by Gary. Congrats!!!
How Do You Keep “Up To Date”?
April 16th, 2004They are doing some “Keeping Current” stuff over at PAMnet. Funny (strange, not “Ha Ha”). The initial questions pertained to how one keeps up, and the answers were either web sites (blogs, etc), listservs, or journals. Librarians gave resources as answers rather than tools (aggregators, RSS Feeds, web site monitoring software, etc). [...]
More Library RSS Stuff
April 15th, 20041) Straight out of my comments, David King, whom I saw speak at Computers in Libraries, mentions:“My library website’s redesign, planned to be released mid-June, includes rss feeds – 48 of em, to be exact. We’ve redone our subject-oriented web links pages, and turned them into “one-stop-shopping” topic guides. There, you’ll be able to find [...]
Iowa Farmer Today via RSS
April 15th, 2004For those farmers in Iowa or those who like to read about farming in Iowa, you will be pleased to note that Iowa Farmer Today not only has an RSS Feed, but a great FAQ about it was well.As an aside, I traveled to Iowa for the first time to speak at the ILA conference [...]
RSS Tutorial Part III: Using Bloglines
April 15th, 2004Cindy L. Chick has Part III of her RSS Tutorial online, about using Bloglines. Chock full of screenshots and well worth the read, especially about using the e-mail features for electronic mailing lists. I tried it out, but quickly unsubscribed, not because it didn’t work, but because I abhor listervs. 90% of [...]
Are Counselors Confused about library degrees?
April 15th, 2004Not currency/RSS/Weblog related, but interesting nonetheless. I just had an interesting IM conversation with a student who is getting her AA degree and is interested in pursuing a degree in library science. She said:“Now I have three counselors who obviously don’t know much about library science telling me three different degrees to obtain. [...]
