Archive for June, 2004
The Lycos 50 Blog
June 15th, 2004Hey, I didn’t realize that the Lycos Top 50 has a weblog. How exciting! There’s even an RSS Feed.
RSS: The Next Generation
June 15th, 2004For those that use the Mac, there is an article on Mac DevCenter that reviews some of the new Mac aggregators that have been coming out on the market.
ERA – E-mail Run Aggregator
June 15th, 2004The E-mail Run Aggregator (ERA) works like listserv subscriptions, just with RSS Feeds. Users type in a bunch of command lines (simple enough) into an e-mail and the aggregator will send an e-mail when the feed has been updated. The user gets a choice as to how often the e-mails will be sent: [...]
Government Technology NOW has RSS Feeds
June 15th, 2004So, maybe I jumped the gun a bit early yesterday with my rant about Government Technology and their lack of visible feeds. They officially announced them today:“In addition to Web site news and e-mail newsletters — provides U.S. state and local government technology news through Really Simple Syndication (RSS), an XML-based format for content distribution. [...]
Online Portfolios, or “WOW! Look at Everything I’ve Done!â€
June 15th, 2004Kim Moody has written an excellent article on online portfolios in the recent entries from LIS Career (a site that is begging for an RSS Feed, BTW). She explains in full detail how and why librarians should create an online portfolio. A quote:
“A portfolio, as you may well be aware, is a collection [...]
RSS for Search Alerts: my.OAI
June 14th, 2004Teri blogs: “Currently, there are only a few bibliographic databases that let you create RSS feeds, including the alternate PubMed platforms HubMed and my.PubMed. Another one is my.OAI, also from FS Consulting. If you have ever used OAIster, this one works the same way, searching 17 major Open Archive collections (vs. OAIster’s 301 collections of [...]
Government Technology now provides RSS Feeds…if you can find them.
June 14th, 2004Government Technology, an online magazine that I read regularly, now has RSS Feeds. The problem? I had a hard time finding them. The only one that I found easily was the one for Top Stories. They say that they have several, but I’ll be darned if I can see them. [...]
Bloggers: How to Get More Traffic & Capture Mainstream Press Attention
June 12th, 2004I’m posting a link to this article as a follow-up to my previous post on marketing. I’d be more inclined to use techniques #4 and 6:“Technique #4. Other blogs: Find a few top blogs that cover your area of interest, and search their archives. Have other bloggers contacted them and mentioned their own blog? [...]
Digital Media Europe
June 12th, 2004Digital Media Europe is offering a bunch of RSS Feeds.“DigitalMediaEurope is an online daily newswire and subscription service dedicated to covering continent-wide developments in digital media.”
New ACRL award to recognize best practices in marketing
June 11th, 2004From the ALA Press Release:“The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is offering a one-time Best Practices in Marketing Academic and Research Libraries @ your library® Award to be presented at the ACRL National Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. in April 2005. Sponsored by the ACRL Marketing [...]
Reduce Email Overload and its Stress
June 10th, 2004From the article, Reduce Email Overload and its Stress:“E-mail is probably the most powerful communication tool you use. It can also be the most frustrating if you don’t handle it properly. Every time you open your Inbox, you see more unfinished work, more demands on your time, and more missed deadlines and broken promises. There [...]
Market Wire RSS Feeds
June 10th, 2004Market Wire provides a bunch of RSS Feeds. I’ve been getting some great press releases via PR web. I just wish I could get personalized RSS feeds via searches. Again, the future of RSS is in customization… (link via Syndic8)
U.S. Census Bureau RSS Feed
June 10th, 2004It looks like the U.S. Census Bureau is offering an RSS Feed for their New on the Site page. By looking at the feed, they just started it in the beginning of the month.How did I figure this out? Well, take a look at the archive links. Look familiar? Movable Type, [...]
Interview with Andreas Wacker of Blogsnow
June 10th, 2004As promised, my interview with Andreas Wacker, creator of Blogsnow is up on ResourceShelf (RS). It is continued on ResourceShelf Plus. If you haven’t taken a look at Blogsnow, it’s an incredible tool. And addicting…
Indianapolis Star RSS headline feed
June 9th, 2004The Indy Star has started to syndicate their content. Only one feed now (Top Stories), but once they see the benefits of RSS, hopefully they will add more. Good for them.
The educated blogger
June 9th, 2004From the latest First Monday: The educated blogger“This paper explores the role of weblogs or ‘blogs’ in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self-expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. [...]
Should I Tell Potential Employers About My Weblog?
June 9th, 2004From Fortune Magazine, the answer to the question, “Should I list my blog on my Resume?”“You can list the link on your resume, but it’s unlikely that anyone will go and look at it,” says Michael Worthington, a partner in ResumeDoctor.com, an online resume-consulting service. “Recruiters and hiring managers get so many resumes every day, [...]
Blogging for Fun and Profit
June 9th, 2004An interesting article from CIO about corporate weblogs:“Weblogs or blogs are not just for Internet pundits. They’re valuable tools that IT managers can use to improve company communications internally and externally.”
When Australian intrnet research and strategies consultancy Caslon Analytics did a “rough-and-ready” survey of top 500 corporate contacts last year, asking them to predict their [...]
Gary Price Gets Honored
June 8th, 2004From the InfoToday Blog:“Web resource guru and fellow blogger (Resource Shelf) Gary Price was honored by the SLA News Divison last night for his unflagging and selfless 24/7 work in keeping the news librarians themselves up to date. It took not one, but five people to do the honors for Gary as he received the [...]
News on Demand
June 7th, 2004Worth pointing out both here and in future presentations: An article from PC World about RSS, complete with annotated reviews of many aggregators.
InfoToday Weblog Atom Feed
June 7th, 2004So, I was looking over at the InfoToday Weblog to see what was going on at SLA and noticed that they power the weblog with Blogger. So, I added an atom.xml at the end of the URL, thinking I would get an Atom feed. Wrong. Page not Found. So, then I [...]
eBay Hops Aboard The RSS Train
June 7th, 2004From the article in Internet News:“Senior manager of developer relations at eBay, Jeffrey McManus, announced the RSS rollout on his weblog and said the feeds would be used to push special offers, promotions and system status messages via RSS. “[There are] highly recommended if you use a Weblog reader and are the least bit serious [...]
Ingenta…in Front
June 7th, 2004From an IT newsbreak from BQ:“Early this autumn as the academic year starts for its many clients, Ingenta, Inc., the online distributor of academic journal literature and document delivery service, will replace its existing online research interfaces—http://www.ingenta.com and http://www.ingentaselect.com—with IngentaConnect. The new interface will provide more reliability and scalability to handle rapid expansion of usage, [...]
Sun Bloggers
June 7th, 2004Sun Bloggers – “Welcome to Blogs.sun.com! This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.”Very cool. This is kind of what is being done at the university settings, with some libraries taking charge. I love the RSS Feeds available not only from every weblog, but from the most recent weblog [...]
Want to Get Your Message Out? Start a Blog
June 6th, 2004A great article on weblogs/RSS on how and why to start a weblog, much of which can apply to the library community:“Blogging offers the opportunity for people to tell the world what’s on their minds, to share their passions, or to simply inform them of current events-no matter how uniquely focused. Or to tell them [...]
Rich Site Services @ Your Library
June 6th, 2004My new partner in crime mentions this neat list of “Rich Site Services”:“RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML feeds”Nothing new to us as far as content (all of these have been been mentioned by either me or Jenny in the past), but I [...]
Modern gadgets raise work stress
June 5th, 2004Not library/weblog/RSS related, but I thought that this article was interesting:“Mobile phones, laptop computers and PDAs are increasing levels of stress in the workplace, according to a study.”
“Professor Michael Warren, of the University of Surrey, said: “We become stressed and impatient when we can’t reach someone, yet we resent distractions and can become angry when [...]
More on Blogging from SLA
June 5th, 2004From Infotoday Newsbreaks:“Why blog SLA? According to Tina Creguer, director, communications, ProQuest Information and Learning, “The Special Libraries Association conference is an exciting event, with news, gatherings, and an exchange of ideas that help shape the library world. The blog hastens the speed of information sharing, and we’re always enthusiastic about improving access to information”
Blogging [...]
More on Recent Journals Recieved Feeds.
June 4th, 2004Owen over at Overdue Ideas is doing some nifty coding with his catalog, serials, and RSS:“After a bit of a break from doing anything on this, I’ve now got an RSS for individual journal titles up and running. To use it you need to have the ISSN for the journal you are going to track. [...]
Wisconsin Historical Society – Historic Diaries
June 4th, 2004“The Wisconsin Historical Society possesses thousands of historic diaries in manuscript or printed form. We’ll offer a Historic Diaries selection of these day-by-day with brief explanatory notes, light editing, images of the original pages, and links leading to more information. We start with the handwritten journal of the only member of the Lewis and Clark [...]
