Archive for July, 2004
ODP now showing RSS Feeds….kinda
July 31st, 2004I was cruising the ODP the other day and noticed that they are starting to include RSS Feeds in their listings. (example – scroll to the bottom of this page). I’m not a big fan of this method at all. Why not just have an orange button (or a link that says ‘RSS’ [...]
Conference Mania!
July 31st, 2004Sarah Houghton comments on her upcoming conference presentations, and the conflicting schedules of the California Annual Conferences and Internet Librarian:
“I’m really disappointed that the conference organizers couldn’t get their $*&# together enough to have these conferences not conflict. I fully realize that many attendees of the Internet Librarian Conference are not from California, but as [...]
Special Librarians are Special Too
July 30th, 2004The good folks over at LISNews pointed me to this well-written article on special librarianship from Career Pro News. Some good quotes:
“Savvy managers know better. Really savvy managers know to deploy special librarian skill sets in every area of the organization’s life where information plays a role: corporate memory, document management, customer relations management, [...]
Why I want Aaron Schmidt to work in my local library
July 29th, 2004Because of posts like this. Aaron is the epitome of the hard working techie librarian who just wants to show his patrons the neat stuff that his library offers. Not only does he write about it eloquently in his weblog, but he teaches us as well. Consider the footnote to the linked [...]
Social Software in the Library
July 29th, 2004I only had a minute to peruse through Social Software in the Library (an article released a few days ago on LLRX) due a lack of forward planning on my end (I fell behind and my laptop hasn’t worked for the past few days), but it seems really interesting. I’m loving this paragraph:
“This is [...]
Why I Love My Ego Feed
July 27th, 2004I have an “ego feed” on PubSub and Feedster set up for my name (all the different spellings of it). Today, my aggie pulled in this:
“It made me recall my idea for a film, a hybrid between ‘Looking for Chan,’ ‘Honk if you love Buddha,’ and ‘The Sweetest Sound’ I call it ‘Looking for [...]
The Creative Librarian
July 27th, 2004Laura Blalock chimes in with her thoughts on the article on libraries and weblogs:
“Where a blog works best (for librarians) is for dissemination of information, a traditional library service. It can be as simple as posting your monthly newsletter on the web for easily accessable back issues or as time-consuming as a daily updated journal [...]
Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries?
July 25th, 2004An article entitled, “Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries?” tried to answer the question that has been asked of me many times throughout the past few years. While the author skirmishes around the question a bit and discusses some of the library weblogs that she has found, she does come to a valid and [...]
Peter Morville is Del.icio.us
July 25th, 2004Peter Morville, a regular at library conferences, started a del.icio.us account today. Of course, there is an RSS Feed. His seems to be in reverse alphabetical order. Must be inputing from his bookmarks. I’ve always wondered what certain people have saved in their bookmarks. Now they can share them. [...]
USPTO Patent and Application Searches Via RSS
July 25th, 2004I can’t even begin to explain how useful this would be at work. I don’t know the slightest thing about perl (I’m not a programmer) nor setting up such a script to run on my server, but it sure would be neat to have available. Too bad the USPTO hasn’t set up an [...]
NPR : RSS Feeds
July 24th, 2004Very nice! 5 National and (more importantly) 8 local feeds From NPR. They also put up an extensive FAQ. I’d love to get one for All Things Considered and Morning Edition. (link via Del.icio.us)
Monterey Here We Come!
July 24th, 2004The other day, the preliminary program came out for Internet Librarian 2004 to be held (yet again) in beautiful Monterey, California. There is already some buzz about it from Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens. I will be there as well, speaking on topics mostly related to weblogs and RSS (what else, right?). [...]
7 Things RSS Is Good For
July 24th, 2004Why-RSS-is-good lists have become very popular these days. J.D. Lasica has, however, written one of the best that I have read to date. He’s actually got a two lists there, with one structured towards business. Well worth a read and bookmark on your favorite social bookmarking tool.
Library Web Chic builds own XML Blogging Tool – Film at 11
July 24th, 2004Karen Coombs, one of my favorite Library Web Chics has developed an XML based blogging tool for her library. This deserves my patented “Suweeeeeeet!”
Not only that, but read what she has to say about keeping up with her knowledge of XML:
“Everytime I work on a project like this I get more code that I [...]
Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good
July 24th, 2004I’m starting something new here at LS. Everytime I subscribe to or dump an RSS feed subscription, I’m going to blog about it. Hopefully, I’ll be able to take my own advice and dump one everytime I add one, but that’s unlikely to happen (right Jenny?).
Tonight, I added Wigblog – Things [...]
E-mail is so 1995
July 24th, 2004A great quote at the end of this article on RSS:
“Keeping up with the news with RSS is wonderfully addictive fun. In no time, you’ll be spending more time reading what you want and less time sifting through junk. Just beware: Your browser and e-mail program could become insanely jealous.”
I was talking about e-mail with [...]
Thomson is Blogging
July 21st, 2004The Web Services Committee of Thomson has started a weblog (RSS Feed).
This is wonderful news. Thomson is beginning to see the powers of weblogs/RSS and have for a while (they have their Westlaw alerts svailable via RSS). I’m going to have to check for a list of companies that they own and see [...]
I’m reading….again
July 21st, 2004I’ve finally worked out an weekday evening schedule that fits all of my wants and needs. From the time I get home from work until 8PM, it’s “Hallie Time”. She goes to sleep at 8. After 8, I hang out with my wife until she goes to sleep, which usually happens around 9:30(ish). [...]
Why I love Jessica Baumgart and Scott Johnson
July 21st, 2004Because Jessica asked for a list of stopwords for Feedster (which would be very useful) and Scott put up a list (which IS very useful). A librarian and a programmer working together: priceless.
A site I wish had an RSS Feed
July 21st, 2004PlaNetwork Journal – “Welcome to the debut of Planetwork Journal…At Planetwork, we’re not techno-utopians; we share a healthy concern about the misuse and unintended consequences of technology. What excites us, however, are the ways that emerging technologies are capable of reflecting progressive values, in particular: openness, collaboration, democracy, and ecological awareness. Digital communications especially seem [...]
Some Stuff
July 20th, 2004I am deeply engaged tonight in numerous projects, so here is a quick round-up on some neat stuff I found in my aggregator today. Gary Price must be having an effect on me, as I have produced more lists in the past month on LS than I have over the past 4 years. Here we [...]
Senator Patrick Leahy has an RSS Feed
July 19th, 2004Jessamyn IM’d me this afternoon (I’m always thrilled to hear from friends) and mentioned a post that she just made on her DNC Blog. Apparently, Patrick Leahy, from Vermont, has an RSS Feed for his “More From the Floor” page, which looks like a Userland/Manilla run weblog. Thanks Jessamyn.
Why Bloggers Read Blogs
July 19th, 2004Will Richardson displays a chart of why U.S. Bloggers read blogs. “News I can’t find elsewhere” is in the top slot. Note the title of the chart: Why U.S. Bloggers read blogs. I would be more interested in why non-bloggers read blogs. Especially in the library world. If we are [...]
Bibliophile
July 19th, 2004Bibliophile – “Bibliophile is an initiative to align the development of bibliographic databases for the web. It aims to promote standards, discussion among users on necessary features and a variety of specific solutions for different fields of research.”. (link via del.icio.us)
Nutr.itio.us
July 19th, 2004The one thing that I don’t like about del.icio.us is that they don’t display the tags that I had created (I post directly from my browser rather than logging into the site). If I was one letter off in the tags when posting a link, it wouldn’t go into the right “folder”.
Enter Nutr.itio.us. Just enter [...]
Weekend Tools/Resources Wrapup
July 16th, 2004I’ve been collecting a bunch of tools/resources over the past few days that I haven’t posted nor have had much time to play with. Nevertheless, here they are:
1) WB Editor – “WB Editor is the weblog or blog editing and posting tool that provides word style interface, RSS aggregator integration, offline local blog storage [...]
EContentMag RSS Feeds – Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby!
July 16th, 2004Last week, I mentioned that Bill French had created (read scraped) numerous RSS Feeds for EContent Magazine. Well, I just got off the phone with Bill Spence at InfoToday and he told me that Econtent now has put up their own RSS Feeds. Hip Hip Hooray! As I have mentioned, third party feeds (aka scrapes) [...]
The new Feedster goes live!!
July 15th, 2004Not only did the new Feedster go live today (see Scott’s post and my post over at ResourceShelf for more information), but they made LS the Feed of the Day. Thanks Scott(s).
They also have a neat calendar feature, which looks sweet!
Bloogz RSS Feed Reader
July 14th, 2004I saw this last night, but couldn’t blog it until today because Blogger was doing some maintenance.
Anyway, Bloogz, which specializes in indexing and searching weblogs (and has a neat language feature) has just released a (web-based aggregator. It’s still in beta testing, but I signed up and gave it a run last night. [...]
Favorite new tools of the past year
July 13th, 2004For the last Internet Spotlight column of the year (Nov/Dec issue), I always like to do some sort of wrap-up or “best of” piece. Last year, I concentrated on search engines. This year, I want to touch upon the favorite/most useful new web tools that came out during the past year. I [...]
