Archive for August, 2004
Eurekster Searches Blogs..Powered by Feedster?
August 31st, 2004I’m confused. Peter tells us that Eurekster is now searching blogs and that it is powered by Feedster. He even has a screen shot. But, he then mentions that he would want Eurekster and Feedster to get together in the future, which just confused me more. As far as I’ve seen, [...]
Forthcoming Book on Blogs and RSS for Librarians
August 31st, 2004Michael tipped me off to a book coming out by Michael Sauers called “Blogging and RSS: A Librarian’s Handbook”. It will be out in the spring of 2005 and will be published by Information Today. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy (hint, hint)
Feed to JavaScript - Yet Another Easy Way to Display Feeds on a Web Page
August 31st, 2004I have mentioned many of these tools in the past. Basically, they are very easy ways to display RSS Feeds on a page. This one happens to use Javascript. Also, as I have mentioned before, these tools run on third-party servers, so you are at the mercy of the resource. That [...]
Housekeeping
August 30th, 20042 new additions to LS.
First, I’ve started a Furl account for my current readings about social networks, collaborative intelligence, cooperation, group work, and the like. So, if you’re into that stuff, grab the feed. My Del.icio.us account is still going strong, with mostly posts about weblogs and RSS that don’t quite [...]
Blogdigger Groups Upgrade
August 30th, 2004Greg writes in to let me know that he has upgraded Blogdigger Groups. From his development blog:
“[T]he new version has expanded filtering support. The default view for a group is a reverse chronological listing of posts from all group members. Say you’re only interested in what one specific member of your Group is saying? [...]
Blabble
August 30th, 2004Say hello to Blabble. From an article from Internet Retailer:
“Rice notes that some search engines such as Google pull listings from blogs, but they treat the blog listing as they would any web page, requiring the searcher who specifically is seeking blog content to read through all the listings returned in a search to [...]
RSS, Library OPACS, and More
August 30th, 2004It looks like there is some discussion going on about Peter’s work with his library OPAC.
- Art mentions Peter’s work with Amazon API and ILL. Oooooh. Peter, show us what you did.
- Jeff, who also commented on my post, works at Library Elf, which “an Internet-based tool for anyone who uses the library [...]
Wikipedia Reputation
August 29th, 2004Ross Mayfield, whose weblog I’ve subscribed to over the weekend, has an interesting round-up of the wikipedia fiasco that dominated the social networks scene this week (at least, it did in my aggregator):
“Which brings me to an lingering thought — that explicitly codifying reputation introduces a cost which can constrain commons-based peer production. Wikipedia was [...]
Creating an RSS feed of the books you have checked out of the library
August 29th, 2004Peter Rukavina has figured out a way to create an RSS feed of the books that he has checked out of his library:
“The result is a Perl script that automatically connects to the web-based Dynix (aka Epixtech) OPAC and grabs a list of the items I’ve got checked out and the date they are due. [...]
Assistance Needed
August 25th, 2004Does anyone work (or know someone who works) at the National Archives in the UK? I am in desperate need of two reports that only seem to be held there. If so, then please contact me. Thanks in advance. Fellow bloggers, a little linkage would be appreciated as always.
Vacation from Blogging
August 23rd, 2004I’m taking the next week off. I’ll still be on IM, answering e-mail, as well as reading my aggregator. I won’t be posting to LS. I haven’t had any time off since March and I desperately need it. Also, I have three articles and a consulting report due that I must [...]
Jon Udell on Del.icio.us and Flickr
August 20th, 2004In an article entitled “Collaborative knowledge gardening”, Jon Udell writes:
“Feedback is immediate. As soon as you assign a tag to an item, you see the cluster of items carrying the same tag. If that’s not what you expected, you’re given incentive to change the tag or add another. If your items aren’t confidential and online-only [...]
Sad Library Cartoon
August 20th, 2004Another reason why Johnny can’t read (link via Luke Francl)
Good News from Userland
August 20th, 2004Userland’s aggregators now support ATOM. It’s about time. If you are an aggregator developer and you don’t support ATOM, you are doing yourself a disservice. A huge disservice… (link via Lockergnome)
Bug Me Not is Back!
August 20th, 2004According to this comment (Thanks Leah) from my post yesterday, Bug Me Not will be back in a few days. In fact, It is back right now. Great news.
My post from yesterday still remains an issue; one in which I will be deliberating in my mind every time I write up a new [...]
Cute Story
August 19th, 2004On June 4th of last year, I mentioned a question/answer service called Wondir. I figured I’d ask it a few questions. One of these questions was “Who is Steven M. Cohen”? Apparently, the question has been posed more than once, angering many of the people who look at the question boards, but [...]
Bug Me Not Demise Brings Up Other Issues
August 19th, 2004One of the problems that I face with writing an column devoted to the Internet for a print publication (Public Libraries Magazine) is that the articles are published almost 4-6 months after the final draft has to be in. In Internet time, that is an eternity. Case in point. My Nov/Dec column [...]
Down with e-mail (take 197)
August 19th, 2004From an article entitled: “Preventing drowning in e-mail”:
“…That means the main desktop computer workspace for many employees is the inbox, and the inbox is an undifferentiated column of e-mail: urgent assignments from the boss; hotel receipts from business trips; correspondence from colleagues on long-term initiatives; notes from spouses requesting a milk pickup on the way [...]
Libraries, Non-Profits, and more
August 19th, 2004Weblogs: The Promise for Nonprofit Organizations makes some valid points in its list. A few that could pertain more to libraries include:
“You can become a trusted information source. The more you add useful links to your weblog, the more you become a trusted source for information. For example, Oceana’s weblog provides useful and regular [...]
G2G
August 18th, 2004Another governmental online data sharing/collaborative effort, this one from New York State. (via Governing.com):
“EASY G-TO-G In the world of data-sharing, the challenge of electronic government is twofold: to share information not only with citizens but also among governments themselves. The lack of a common interface for government-to-government data transfer hampers the process, but the [...]
Greenpeace RSS Feeds
August 18th, 2004Greenpeace has 5 RSS Feeds. Neat.
Create bibliographies from FURL
August 18th, 2004This is realy neat. Will Richardson mentions that Furl now allows users to export their bookmarks into MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE bibliographies. This quote is taken from Mike Giles’ weblog (he’s the guy behind FURL):
“The export page just got updated to include two new features. First, you can now export items from [...]
Teaching a Blogging Workshop
August 17th, 2004Teri provides some advice on teaching weblogs, which I found useful. There is one area that I haven’t seen discussed yet: teaching weblogs to staff. Hopefully, the attendees will be going back to their respective libraries and showing off their new skills to their colleagues. But how do they teach what they [...]
2 RSS Resources
August 17th, 2004These are new to me but seem to have been around for a while. Both are courtesy of del.cio.us:
1) RSS Comics - Get Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, Dilbert, Frank and Ernest, and/or Peanuts in your aggregator. These feeds are scraped. uComics needs to create their own feeds. Maybe this will be the push [...]
Portals and KM
August 17th, 2004I’ve been coming across some great resources for social networking, collaboration, social software, and how it relates (or can relate) to libraries and knowledge management (sooner or later, I’ll publish the OPML feed somewhere).
This morning, while browsing my aggregator before work, I came across Portals and KM, run by Bill Ives. The tagline reads: [...]
RSS in Excel
August 16th, 2004If you’re one of those “I use Excel all day” people and also like to read content via RSS, you may want to try out the EaZy RSS reader. The screenshots look impressive. That said, I haven’t tried it out and probably won’t. I don’t even know where to find the Excel [...]
Simon Says
August 16th, 2004Simon puts his thoughts down on social software:
“I made my first contribution to Wikipedia a few days ago. What’s interesting to me is the whole notion of group accountability. The traditional approach to creating and organising knowledge assumes that this should be the task of experts - and this is what we’re taught in library [...]
Negotiating via email (or chat)
August 16th, 2004Those that perform live reference these days, might want to read this post on the Online Business Networks Blog. The post discusses an article about how to make e-mail negotiations more successful, but it can easy be correlated to IM:
“The participants who shared personal information about themselves established better rapport and had more successful [...]
Library Web Chic is in RSS Heaven
August 16th, 2004Amazing. I just got off the IM with Karen Coombs and she failed to mention that her new library web site complete with homemade blogging software and RSS Feeds is live. She has the library announcements built into a CMS with automatic RSS implementation, plus a tutorial about RSS. Suweeeeeeeeet. Congrats [...]
KM, Weblogs, and Social Networks
August 15th, 2004A long title, but a wonderfully written paper entitled, “Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing” for the Blog Talk 2.0 Conference. A few highlights:
“By reading someone elses weblog readers get to know the writer very well. It can be seen that webloggers who read each other and use [...]