Archive for April, 2004
While Blake Gently Weeps…
April 8th, 2004Blake is wondering why his LISnews feeds aren’t on the “most popular feeds” lists he is looking at:“I was poking around looking for ways to spice up LISFeeds and I noticed LISNews absent from all the “most popular feeds” lists I ran across. We don’t show up on any of the most popular RSS feeds [...]
Timothy’s Law
April 7th, 2004Not library-related at all. Sorry.I read an article in Newsday yesterday about a 12 year old boy who hanged himself in his closet due to his mental-illness (Depression, ADHD, and ODD). A very sad story. One that could have been prevented if the insurance laws in NY didn’t discriminate against those with [...]
Getting unstuck
April 6th, 2004Ooooh. I love this. Getting unstuck. A few quotes:“Keep your feet moving: The surest way to stay stuck is to stop moving. Back up and look at different possibilities. Try different solutions to the problem you are encountering. Be willing to experiment and learn.“Say it out loud: Describe to someone else what [...]
The Beta-tester in you…
April 6th, 2004Anyone want to beta test a new aggregator called Caterpiller?
The UK Blogs Aggregator
April 6th, 2004I love the way that the UKBlogs Aggregator looks. Easy on the eyes, very nice!! I would love to see this more in the library community. Sure, I can make one with Blogdigger, etc. But I’d like to see one built from scratch, just for the fun of it.
KeepMedia New Features
April 6th, 2004KeepMedia, “a premium content service, delivering current and archived articles from 140+ popular magazines and newspapers in one convenient location” has launched 3 new services, according to EContent magazine.1) KeepMedia Tracker - “KeepMedia Tracker is a personalized service that allows users to customize email alerts across magazine and newspaper titles. KeepMedia Tracker is intended to [...]
A is for Alice, and Alice likes her news
April 5th, 2004I enjoyed reading this first part in “Alice’s” attempt to understand RSS and News Aggregators. I especially like the last part:“At some point during this process, Alice will start to feel assaulted by altogether new and special kind of information glut. There’s really no way around this stage, not if she wants to persevere [...]
Easy Bloglines Subscriptions
April 5th, 2004I mentioned this to Jenny at CIL and I couldn’t remember where I saw it. Well, HCRHS Channels made its way back into my aggregator (Thanks Feedster)This app is awesome. It was set by Will Richardson (I assume, because it’s his school, correct me if I’m wrong. So, there are a list [...]
New Rollup Feature
April 5th, 2004A few feature at Rollup allows the creator to determine the number of characters for each post. From the weblog:“Especially if you are sharing your rollup with an audience this is a good way to respect your sources by encouraging people to click through to read the rest of the post.”Agreed. Some people [...]
What Is RSS?
April 4th, 2004Pete Weiss comes to my aid yet again by pointing out that Cindy L. Chick is trying her hand at her own RSS Tutorial on her weblog. The first was What Is RSS, published on March 21st. The second installment, Getting Started with RSS Aggregators, was published today, and goes briefly through Newzcrawler [...]
Jessamyn’s Blog Class
April 4th, 2004Neat!!! Jessamyn is teaching a workshop on using weblogs in libraries.Speaking of blog workshops, we had to reschedule the online workshop that I am doing for Learning Times. The new dates are located on the workshop site and the right side of my weblog. (link via Amanda’s Del.icio.us Account)
Grateful Dead Heaven
April 3rd, 2004Totally non-library related, but I can’t help but to post this.The Internet Archive now has over 300 Grateful Dead shows for your listening pleasure. They have concerts from 1979, 1985, and 1990. You have the choice to download or stream the shows to your desktop. I am going through them show by [...]
UThink: Blogs at the University Libraries
April 3rd, 2004Carol links to the incredible blogging project going on at the University of Minnesota Libraries, called UThink. Incredible stuff going on over there. So, any student, faculty member, or staff can have a MovableType blog hosted by the University. Simple as that. Even more impressive is the “About the Service Page”, [...]
Lotsa Physics RSS Feeds
April 3rd, 2004The helpful Pete Weiss e-mailed me this morning with news that Physics Web has released a variety of RSS Feeds (which he found cited in Open Access News). As I was poking around to see if I had posted this in the past (which I didn’t), I came across more feeds provided by the [...]
ODP - ATOM and RSS
April 3rd, 2004I’m not an ODP editor anymore so I don’t know how this is working, but I am enthralled with the concept. Apparently, the ODP is now accepting RSS and Atom Feeds into its directory. Any further information would be greatly appreciated. Nothing in the press releases or the forums. Greg, have you [...]
Click The News
April 3rd, 2004Click The News - “gathers for you the latest news headlines from your favorite web sites and presents them in an easy to read virtual newspaper. Designed for ease of use and efficiency, it integrates nicely to your daily web surfing habits.”I just downloaded this aggregator. Basically, you add the feeds you want to [...]
Why Librarians are better than Google Local Search?
April 2nd, 2004Steve points out (from Ernie the Attorney) that if you enter the word ‘porn’ with any zip code in Google Local search, you get a listing of attorneys. Hilarious. ‘Porno’ doesn’t come out any better.I know it’s in beta, but I think librarians can really help Google in this instance. It’s all about [...]
Blogs as easy as TV
April 2nd, 2004I liked the following quote from this article:“[T]he best part about blogging is that not only do you not have a be a tech wizard to run one, but many services around cyberspace offer blog space for free. Earlier this week, a friend of mine had no clue what a blog was. Two hours later, [...]
Feed Direct and more on Moreover
April 2nd, 2004Genie links to Feeddirect, a service that provides Moreover feeds in htm format that users can place on their web sites. Genie points out as well that users can still take advantage of the keyword search RSS Feed provided by Moreover by placing the keyword after the k= in the following URL: http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?k=keyword&o=rss.Last, the [...]
Internet Librarian 2004
April 2nd, 2004It seems downright silly to be thinking about Internet Librarian 2004, which will be held yet again in Monterey, CA. The submissions for presentations are due next month, so I’ve got to get cracking.I’ve been thinking about submitting a proposal for a full-day track on content delivery methods. Librarians are always talking about [...]
Push v. Pull
April 1st, 2004The Globe and Mail is running a story on RSS and compares it to a product called Pointcast (which I never used). An interesting article though, with one memorable quote:“Ultimately, the only real difference between the two is that the very concept behind Pointcast was offensive. “Push technology” suggested someone else was controlling the [...]
Natural Partners
April 1st, 2004As if we were on the same wavelength, Marylaine’s latest Ex-Libris is about libraries working with museums, etc. A quote:“Forming stronger partnerships with these logical allies makes sense because they can leverage and amplify each other’s limited resources, while marketing the joint cultural richness they provide. The analogy that comes to mind is the web [...]
Waypath Refs
April 1st, 2004Waypath, another site that I like to call “The Little Engine That Could” (along with Blogdigger) announced today that they have created a new Waypath References. Basically, it’s the same concept as Technorati, in that you put in a URL and you’ll get a list of weblogs that linked to that weblog within the [...]