Archive for July, 2004
Ingenta and Feedster postings on Resourceshelf
July 13th, 2004I’ve written up a piece on the new IngentaConnect RSS Feed capabilities over at Resourceshelf. Thanks to Geoffrey Bilder and Leigh Dobbs for taking the time to chat with me.
Also, I spoke with Scott Rafer the other day about the new release of Feedster and posted about it on Resourceshelf as well.
Enjoy.
More RSS Goodies
July 13th, 2004Wow. Lots of new RSS Feeds today (well, new to me). I just read that Chilling Effects has an RSS Feed. Subscribed!! (link via Syndic8)
RSS Feeds in Firefox
July 12th, 2004I just switched browsers on my laptop and am now loving Firefox. I’ve been adding a few extentions (like searching LII right from the browser). Today, I read that there is an extension called Livemarks that will allow me to read RSS and Atom feeds in the browser. I’m more of a [...]
Alexa RSS Feeds
July 12th, 2004For those that use Alexa, they are now offering over 30 RSS Feeds. These include:
- Hot Search Terms
- 4 “Movers and Shakers” feeds (Global, Chinese, English, and Korean)
- Numerous “Top Sites” from over 25 countries.
Yowza!! (link via Del.icio.us)
Collective Intelligence in the library
July 12th, 2004George Por writes:
“The technological innovation of weblogs will discover its full power in the enterprise when associated with the social innovation of communities of practice. Why? When we free the creative potential of flexible constellations of communities of interest and practice, it will boost their membersÂ’ identity, mutual care and professional pride. The emerging generation [...]
Simple Aggregator
July 12th, 2004It seems that the next generation of Feed on Feeds has emerged, called Simple Aggregator. It’s web-based, which is necessary, and the interface looks plain enough (I was talking to a colleague the other day who mentioned that he doesn’t like all of the bells and whistles that some aggregators come with: I [...]
Feedster Unveils New Look, Sponsored Links
July 9th, 2004Clickz has the scoop on the new look for Feedster, which will launch next week. I had the opportunity to talk to Scott Rafer (Feedster CEO) on the phone yesterday for an hour and will have a summary on ResourceShelf next week, the day of the release. Rafer took me for a test [...]
Pew Internet RSS Feeds
July 9th, 2004The always helpful Pete Weiss writes in to let me know that the Pew Internet & Life Project now has 2 RSS feeds available. One for their front page, the other for their comments. I’ve subscribed to the first one. Thanks Pete.
Microsoft Community launches public blog portal
July 9th, 2004According to The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog, Microsoft has launched a Blog portal for its employees. The concept is not new, but impressive.
Do you think that there are any big library systems (public or academic) who are doing this? UThink does this for the entire U of M community, but what about just librarians? [...]
B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs
July 8th, 2004Teri mentions B-Feeds, yet another compilation from Gerry McKiernan.
“B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs is a categorized registry of site that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds, to compilations, directories, lists, or reviews for academic or scholarly books or monographic works”
Not that full yet, but I’m sure that Gerry will add more as [...]
NewzAlert Composer
July 8th, 2004Via PRWeb:
“NewzAlert Composer helps you to create, maintain and publish RSS 2.0 compliant news feeds. It is a completely self-contained software product, allowing you to publish your RSS feeds directly to your web server using built in FTP functionality.
Whether you have one web site or forty, one RSS feed or one hundred, NewzAlert Composer lets [...]
Bloggers Suffer Burnout
July 8th, 2004In an article entitled, Bloggers Suffer Burnout:
“Billmon’s inability to keep up with the demands of moderating comments in the face of a job, family and other responsibilities is just one manifestation of a problem increasingly faced by popular daily bloggers: burnout. While they enjoy what they’re doing, many find that keeping up with the pressures [...]
Finding Feeds?
July 8th, 2004While I am all for articles in the mainstream press on weblogs/RSS, but the journalists really need to do their homework. For example, in this article entitled, Blogs Help You Cope With Data Overload — If You Manage Them, the following sentence is placed towards the end:
“The best way to find great blogs is [...]
Poof! You have Econtent Magazine RSS Feeds
July 8th, 2004Bill French mentions that he has created (scraped) 20 RSS Feeds for Econtent Magazine. Suweeeeet!
Even better, there is an easy way to create a search feed for all EContent content. Just add your search term to the end of this URL string:
http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/aggregate/43703?model=user/myst/user-econtent-cat2rss&q=
Very cool!! Thanks Bill. Even though I don’t like [...]
Bloglines Overview
July 7th, 2004Andrea has an overview of the new Bloglines. Now, I don’t have to write one up. Thanks for saving me some time, Andrea.
Macromedia Product RSS Feeds
July 7th, 2004Macromedia has made 16 new feeds available:
“The links to the RSS feeds below can be used to monitor news about Macromedia products. Each time Macromedia releases a TechNote, security bulletin, or information about a product update, the Macromedia Product RSS Feeds are updated accordingly. By using your favorite aggregator to watch for important Macromedia product [...]
CorporateBlogging.Info
July 7th, 2004I just subscribed to Corporate Blogging. From the site:
“I strongly believe in the possibilities of blogging. But blogs are not a good way to quickly understand a subject. Blogs are immediate; they’re chronological instead of contextual, they give you qualified conversations rather than basic knowledge. To find out if blogging can improve the external [...]
Quote of the Year
July 7th, 2004Mark Fletcher on the new Bloglines release:
“‘Search portals are rooted in the past, and are ill-prepared to handle the tsunami of rich syndicated content that is now crashing onto the web,’ he said. ‘For many people, Bloglines is replacing traditional sites like Yahoo! and Google as their home page of choice because we do a [...]
Simply RSS
July 6th, 2004This is pretty useful. CNET has launched an RSS directory called Simply RSS, which collects and organizes all of their feeds into one place (**Cough** Yahoo!! **Cough**). In other CNET news, they have also launched News.com extra:“With today’s launch of News.com Extra, we are expanding and enhancing that concept. Our reporters and editors [...]
How to Avoid the 11 Biggest Mistakes of First Time Authors
July 6th, 2004I needed more professional development posts on LS. This article, entitled, How to Avoid the 11 Biggest Mistakes of First Time Authors has some good tips for those who are thinking about writing a book. A few tips of note:
1) “Don’t expect to get rich off your book, even if it’s a success [...]
Surfpack
July 6th, 2004“Surfpack Startpage is a real lifesaver for people who know what they want on the Internet and regularly visit the same web sites. Basically, it builds a single HTML page that contains all your favorite web resources displayed in whatever way, form or shape you might like – favorite URL links, newsfeeds, entire web pages [...]
RSSFeeds.com
July 5th, 2004“RSSfeeds.com is a RSS directory containing links to RSS feeds. We do not collect the data in the feeds, like some other sites, but we specialize in categorizing the feeds in a directory that is based on Netscape’s DMOZ Open directory.” (link via Michael Fagan’s Bookmarks)
I knew right away by looking at the directory that [...]
Blogory RSS feeds
July 5th, 2004Greg Linden writes:
“Findory Blogory just launched a new and unusual feature: personalized, aggregated, and adaptive RSS feeds. The RSS feed is personalized, so every reader gets a unique feed with articles that match his or her interests. The feed aggregates weblog articles from thousands of other weblogs, combining all the weblogs into one RSS stream [...]
Competing in high gear
July 4th, 2004I spent an hour on the phone with a journalist from Newsday a few weeks ago. She was interviewing librarians about our profession and wanted to go at it from two angles: The veteran librarian and the newly degreed librarian. I told her about what I do at my firm and the importance [...]
Engineering Jobs via RSS
July 4th, 2004Librarians working in science and engineering libraries might like this resource. Engineering jobs via RSS broken down by state, with “more to come”. Idea: Stream the RSS Feed on your S & E library website for your particular state. You can use Feedroll to easily do this. (link via 2RSS)
Company Plugs RSS as Alternate to E-Mail Marketing
July 3rd, 2004From the article published yesterday by Eweek:
“[MessageCast Inc], [t]he Redwood City, Calif. company this quarter will release a version of LiveMessage that lets users send messages via RSS feeds. LiveMessage, released earlier this year, uses public instant messaging networks to send communications not only via IM but also via e-mail, SMS (Short Message Service) and [...]
Sneak Around to Find All Yahoo’s RSS Feeds
July 1st, 2004Tara mentions that you have to “sneak around” to find all of the feeds supplied by Yahoo. I find it strange that they are making it a bit difficult for users to locate these feeds. They have been at the forefront of RSS as far as big portals go. Not to mention [...]
Get Your RSS Feed Listed Within Hours At Yahoo In 5 Simple Steps
July 1st, 2004When Yahoo introduced their implementation of RSS into My Yahoo, I remember Jenny writing that her library system feed was not included in her listing in the Yahoo Directory (It since has been included). What I didn’t realize, and what this article mentions, is that if your feed is not listed under your listing, [...]
Karen Coombs on FURL
July 1st, 2004Karen Coombs has some neat FURL tricks:
“One thing that readers of this site may not realize is that the resources section of the site is driven by Furl. Well sort of… You can export all your Furled items as XML. This provides an archive you can keep on your own machine and removes for me [...]
More on “Into the Blogosphere”
July 1st, 2004Last week, I mentioned a site called Into the Blogosphere, which publishes scholarly articles on weblogs. Today, they added an introduction to the site as well as enabling comments and trackback. Which got me thinking. The article list must be published with weblog software. I figured MovableType. Sure enough, I [...]
