Archive for April, 2004
Big on Blogging
April 15th, 2004Take a look at Michael’s presentation called “Big on Blogging”. I was floored when I saw slide 21, his intranet weblog for SJCPL. Wow!!!! You go Michael. As always, you rock!!!
The Daily Iowan via RSS
April 15th, 2004Blogs / Weblogs in Higher Education mentions that the Daily Iowan, another college newspaper has an RSS Feed. Neat. Keep ‘em coming.
I Blog, therefore I am
April 14th, 2004An interesting quote from this article, written by a solo practitioner lawyer:“Within a law firm, blogs that promote inner-firm communications can be utilized as essential knowledge management tools. And when turned outward to the realm of external communications, blogs can shape the public’s perception of who is acknowledged as an expert in a given area [...]
Newsletters by RSS Software Released
April 14th, 2004EMediaWire:“ToolButton Inc. today launched NewslettersByRSS.com. The free NewslettersByRSS service allows newsletter publishers to continue to deliver their newsletters by email while trying out the much-hyped delivery medium of RSS. Publishers obtain a special NewslettersByRSS email address which they add to their newsletter distribution list. When the newsletter is emailed to the list in the normal [...]
Reger
April 14th, 2004I’ve seen Reger mentioned on occasion but never had the time to really look at it. I took a quick perusal today and was quite impressed with the many features available. It’s free and I’ll probably play with it more when I get a chance. Consider this post a reminder to go [...]
Weblogs as Career Boosters
April 14th, 2004Dave links to this article from the Christian Science Monitor. I was most impressed with the last section:“Although making a living just blogging is nearly impossible, a blog can have a great deal of career value by demonstrating one’s expertise and writing skills, thus serving as a “reputation builder,” Blood says by phone from [...]
Another library with New Book Acquisitions via RSS!!!
April 14th, 2004Straight out of my comments. The University of Kent Library has an RSS Feed for their new acquisitions. Very cool. I’m sure Jenny will be interested in this was well. Anyone else doing this? I’d love to hear from you.
Stop the GoogleBombing!!!
April 14th, 2004Sometimes, I don’t think. Sometimes, I don’t understand the outcomes that can come from posting something on LS. Sometimes, I just post. That’s the power (and downfall) of weblogs I guess.My Googlebombing experiment was wrong. Plain wrong. I never checked with anyone about it, I just posted. It was [...]
Newly Acquired Books at Kenton County Public Library….via RSS!!!!
April 13th, 2004Just got an e-mail from Jenny, who is on vacation. She cc’d me on a reply to a librarian who was at her session on RSS at CIL and asked that I post this.Garry at the Kenton County Public Library has written an “SQL/JAVA program combination that queries our online catalog twice a day [...]
Blogs @ Arkansas Tech University
April 13th, 2004Alrighty, it looks like they are trying to bring centralized weblogs together at Arkansas Tech University. I like the concept of allowing the user to see only weblogs from the School of Education (no posts yet), the School of Business (no posts here either), or all departments. This would work well in Movable [...]
PubSub introduces Link Ranks
April 13th, 2004Pubsub has introduced a new feature called LinkRanks. From the about page:“Link ranks are our way of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in weblogs. When PubSub reads a new weblog entry, we pull out any URIs we find and attach them to the entry in a separate field. This allows [...]
Technorati on LS
April 13th, 2004Every post on LS will now have a link to the Technorati Cosmos for that post. It’s like my own form of Trackback. Kinda. If you have a Blogger blog and want to implement this neat feature, see the instructions from Snowdeal. (link via Del.icio.us)Now, I can check on how my GoogleBombing [...]
Ebay Listings now Free Bdding Tools
April 13th, 2004Brad just sent me the following message:“Due to legal issues, ebaylistings.net will now be known as Free Bidding Tools“.Alrighty.
Corporate Weblogs and Library Weblogs
April 13th, 2004Some of the 10 rules in this article about corporate weblogs and Wikis can easily be paralleled to weblogs on library web pages. Here are a few:“2. Be an unmatched resource - Politicians have perfected the art of the “trial balloon.” An idea is leaked, and the resultant reaction signals whether it’s politically safe [...]
Rocket News Steps it up
April 13th, 2004Gary mentions new features at Rocket News. Even more impressive is that you can get RSS Feeds for any keyword search, a feature that I think is also new. Before, I think (and I could be wrong) users could have only added those customized feeds to the Rocket News aggregator and that aggregator [...]
Job Search Blogs
April 13th, 2004I’m always advocating for librarians to show off their talents, career development issues, and, most importantly, any articles, presentations, and other resume builders on their weblogs. In fact, I did a little presentation on the topic at OLA last year.So, this afternoon, I was excited to come across (via Michael Fagan’s Del.icio.us page), [...]
Ernie and FeedDemon
April 12th, 2004The veteran blawger Ernie the Attorney has written a a quick tutorial on how to get a bunch of feeds (via OPML) into FeedDemon).Jenny talks about this concept a lot (I think) and I think it’s a great idea. Give librarians who are just starting out with RSS one file filled with library feeds [...]
Librarians Googlebombing!!
April 12th, 2004Anyone want to try out a neat Googlebombing experiment? Lets try to get important library web sites at the top of search results for keywords. In order for this to work, though, full coorperation from all library bloggers (and their friends) is necessary. It’s not easy to do, but it can be done. [...]
The Auburn Plainsman goes RSS
April 12th, 2004The Plainsman, the student newspaper at Auburn University is now offering an RSS Feed. I wonder why more university student newspapers haven’t caught onto RSS. Does anyone know if there is a resource of out there that lists student newspapers with RSS Feeds? If not, does anyone want to start one. [...]
Blogs centralized at the university library? Why? Why Not!!
April 12th, 2004An interesting article about weblogs in the university community. I just wonder how many libraries will follow the lead of great projects like UThink and take charge in the weblog world in their institution. Which begs the question: Is it necessary for libraries to do this? Anyone can start a weblog. [...]
I’m in Newsday
April 12th, 2004A.J. Carter, a columnist at Newsday, has written a section about me in his piece today (scroll down to the third piece). The print edition has a big picture of me on the page, which is very exciting (I’ll try to get a PDF version scanned today). A favorite quote:“In his job, Cohen [...]
Feedroll Pro
April 11th, 2004Charles writes:“Feedroll Pro will launch by the end of next month”Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Mista Kaata!! Can I be a beta-tester?
eBay Listings via RSS
April 11th, 2004I know that there is another resource that creates feeds for Ebay search results, but I figured that I’d point to this one anyway, just in case the other one goes down. Both of these comes from third parties, so they can go down at any time, without any repercussions.Does anyone know of a [...]
EFF Weblogs
April 11th, 2004Who knew? (I didn’t). The Electronic Freedom Foundation has 4 weblogs. The two interest me are:1) Deep Links - “a group weblog featuring pointers to news articles and weblog posts that spark the interest of EFF staff members. We aim to provide a bit of on-the-fly commentary to help contextualize issues, as well as [...]
Bloggers Blogs of Note - Again!!
April 9th, 2004LS has once again been mentioned as “Blog of Note” on the Blogger site. The honor was first bestowed on June 7, 2002. I wonder if I am the first one to be nominated twice? Thanks Blogger (and thanks Laura for the tip)
Introduction to Blogs and Blogging
April 9th, 2004We’ve practically run the gamut of “intro to blogs” articles (and I rarely link to them anymore), but this one is interesting due to the class blogs aspect:“Why a class blog? Well, return in your imagination to parent-teacher nights before cyberspace. Teachers took care to ensure that every child had some example of work posted [...]
Planet Sun
April 9th, 2004So, Planet Sun is aggregating all of the weblogs written by employees at Sun Microsystems. These community aggregators seem to be all the rage these days. I love it. Of course, my brain moves towards weblogs in libraries. I wonder if any library communities (be they consortia, county libraries, or within [...]
RSS Feeds on Your Screensaver!!!
April 9th, 2004Now this is for those hardcore aggregator readers out there. The Online News Screensaver!! Free for a trial period (not sure for how long), but neat nonetheless (only $15 after the trial period). It’s totally customizable too, so now my Feedpapers feed appears when my desktop is idle. Very Very [...]
Webmaster World RSS Category
April 8th, 2004I monitor Webmaster World for some SEO consulting work and I just noticed that they have a category for RSS Feeds. In fact, it is not new at all, the first post being from April of 2001. It hasn’t been used that often, but it has started to generate some posts recently, and [...]
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!!
April 8th, 2004Unbelievable. Seseme Street is 5 years older than me!! I remember watching Grover, Ernie, Bert and the whole gang early on in life (actually, my first memories are of these characters). Now, with Hallie in my lap, we watch Elmo’s World every morning before I go off to work. A smile always [...]