Archive for September, 2004
Feedster Powers RSS and Blog Search Results for Eurekster
September 16th, 2004Well, this answers that question. Congrats to Feedster and Eurekster. (link via SEW Blog)
Search Engine Watch Blog
September 16th, 2004I don’t blog about search engines that much on LS. There is only so much that I can cover. Luckily for us, Search Engine Watch has just launched a weblog. My good friend, colleague, and partner Gary Price, will be heading up most of the posting there and I was thrilled when [...]
Jerkstore and Groupwork
September 14th, 2004I’ve been meaning to blog this for a few weeks. I was watching a Seinfeld re-run the other day:
“JERRY: George was scarfing shrimp at this meeting, and this guy says ‘Hey, George, the ocean called. They’re running outta shrimp.’
(Elaine laughs, loud and long, causing Jerry and Kramer to smile and laugh.)
GEORGE: Listen to the comeback. [...]
Distributed Workplaces, Social Networks, and Proposals
September 14th, 2004I mean to blog write about this last night, but I ran out of time. So here we go:
I ran across this article on Pivia, a company that helps huge employees in companies communicate with one another through a shared centralized resource. The article discusses a new feature called TeamTheme, which [...]
Omea Reader
September 13th, 2004I forgot where I saw this, but it looks worthy of a try. I’m too busy right now to test it though. Sorry.
Omea Reader:
“[A] tool which combines an RSS/ATOM feed reader, a newsgroup reader and a Web bookmark manager in a single easy to use interface. Omea Reader includes the full range of [...]
Grouper
September 13th, 2004Grouper:
“Grouper is a new Windows based application that allows users to share their personal media within private groups. Grouper uses P2P technology connecting you directly to your friends’ hard drives where you can share large files in a safe, encrypted environment. Grouper is a simple install and requires no firewall reconfiguration”
Am I way off in [...]
Amanda is Back…and Teaching Again
September 13th, 2004One of my favorite weblog/RSS advocates, Amanda Etches-Johnson is back from non-blogging and mentioned the other day that she is teaching an 6 week online class on (what else), “Getting Started on Weblogs and RSS”:
“You will get a guided, hands-on introduction to blogging which will include the opportunity to create your own blog. You will [...]
StepNewz
September 13th, 2004It’s resource day here at Library Stuff…
StepNewz:
“[O]ffers online news management services providing individuals and businesses with a friendly, secure and effective solution to effortlessly stay informed and up-to-date. StepNewz monitors thousands of web sites twenty-four hours per day looking for the latest news on every topic. In addition, StepNewz lets you design and publish [...]
wURLdBook Research
September 12th, 2004A PRWeb release led me to wURLdbook, a free web-based aggregator and bookmarking tool. I started an account and played with it a bit. While still in public beta, the features list is impressive. I’ve subscribed to the ATOM Feed for their weblog for future updates…
As an aside, I am a firm [...]
Weblogs I Subscribed to Today
September 11th, 2004It’s the end of a very sucecssful evening. I’ve submitted a consulting report, posted a bunch of blog stuff that has been sitting in drafts, and I’ve subscribed to the following RSS Feeds:
1) Amazon Books search for “Social Networks”
2) Blog 23 - “News and Information about Think Tank 23’s knowledge management and information retrieval [...]
Weblog Audience-Building and the Strength of Weak Ties
September 11th, 2004Michael Feldstein has great advice in attempting to make your weblog gain more readership. First, he discusses a paper that I have to get my hands on:
“Sociologist Mark Granovetter provides a clue in his oft-quoted classic paper “The Strength of Weak Ties.” Basically, Granovetter argues that people are more likely to get jobs through [...]
Small Talk
September 11th, 2004Related to my previous post commenting on the Social Butterfly Effect, the team at Headshift have a post entitled, The importance of small talk:
“People also have a tendency not to take breaks communally anymore except for the odd lunch or drinks after work. These trends decrease the opportunity for face-to-face small talk in the workplace.”
“Instead, [...]
The Social Butterfly Effect
September 11th, 2004A great column in the July/August issue of Econtent Magazine entitled, The Social Butterfly Effect, which talks about getting the right information from employees to have an organization run effectively. Michelle Manafry, the author, writes:
“I recently received a vendor email boasting that the sender’s solution had the power to “manage the content stored in [...]
Andrew Steven Zucker
September 11th, 2004I knew you a long time ago. We lost touch. I will never lose touch with you now. Forever in my mind and in my heart. G-d bless you.
Blogsnow RSS Feed
September 10th, 2004Andreas IM’d me this morning with news that Blogsnow now has an RSS Feed for current news page (the main page). Andreas mentioned that it gets updated every 10-20 minutes, which is an incredible. Also, the feeds don’t repeat themselves in your aggregator. If it is new to the list, your aggregator [...]
If WebJunction Was a Wiki…
September 10th, 2004…then I would easily be able to fix the error in the description to Jessamyn’s most recent article. It is now September 10th, 8 days after the article was published. I’m sure it has been noticed by many people (I’m not an astute editor and even I caught it), but they didn’t know (or [...]
RSS Blender
September 9th, 2004I don’t talk about ads in RSS Feeds because they are discussed ad nauseum (pun intended) in the weblogs/articles I read and I really have nothing to contribute (other than the fact that they are as inevitable as paying taxes)
Today, John Battelle mentioned Blender Prototype put out by the guys at Waypath (I think). [...]
WikiAlong
September 9th, 2004Jenny sent along this really neat tool called Wikalong (it’s an extension for Firefox). Basically, it is a sidebar wiki for any web page. Just like any wiki, users can comment freely about anything related to the page. For example, here is a screenshot for the main Microsoft domain. So, whenever someone [...]
Scholarly Library Journal on Resource Sharing and Collaboration
September 8th, 2004I did Jenny’s patented happy dance and ran around the table a few times after reading that there is professional library journal entitled, Resource Sharing and Information Networks. I checked a few academic libraries in my area and a few subscribe to it. If my research on collaboration really takes off, I’ll pay [...]
Feeds added today
September 8th, 2004I forgot that I was going to list feeds that I added to my aggregator. Today, I added the following feeds:
1) infosophy: Socio-technological Rendering of Information - “Information structures and information technologies do not develop in isolation. Similarly, the social structures in our society do not develop free from technological influence. The information technology [...]
Documents Galore - Docuticker Gets News Coverage
September 8th, 2004I always assume that if you read LS on a daily basis, then you also read ResourceShelf. And, if you read ResourceShelf, you know that we have started a beta project called Docuticker, which is a weblog of different reports/studies/documents that the RS team finds during the day. Gary, Shirl, and I [...]
Trace Encounters
September 8th, 2004Trace Encounters - “TraceEncounters is a social network tracking and visualization project. It is being debuted (this very moment!) in Linz, Austria at this year’s Ars Electronica festival. This temporary site has a minimum of information at this point, but there’s more available the final pre-festival writeup.”
“The project distributes a set of small stickpins, each [...]
Fun With Flickr and RSS
September 7th, 2004Flickr has the option of creating feeds from photos with shared tags. For example, I have a feed for all photos added to Flickr for the tags library and librarian. Lots of great shots from libraries all around the world. I had this one sitting in my blog drafts but forgot to [...]
Informational Cascades in Online Learning
September 7th, 2004I’m going to have to read this article entitled, “Informational Cascades in Online Learning” in more depth (I only glanced at it this evening), but it seems fascinating:
“Fortunately for us, a growing number of researchers from a wide range of disciplines is coming to study these “greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts” phenomena. The community of online learning professionals has [...]
Gmail in a Blog
September 7th, 2004Google is sure to be unhappy with this, but here you go:
Gallina will take all of your gmail messages and post them as entries in a weblog. While I wouldn’t want everyone reading my e-mail, there may be something inherent in this hack dealing on subscribing to mailing lists, etc. The neat part [...]
Feedburner Library Stuff Feed
September 7th, 2004What the heck. I’ve created a feed at Feedburner, which will include all of the bookmarks that I have gathered using Furl. The URL for that feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/librarystuff/BYhZ. The stuff from FURL will appear in the feed as I bookmark them. Apparently, I can’t have both my del.icio.us bookmarks and [...]
Is Dewey Still Prejudiced?
September 5th, 2004An interesting essay from the latest Journal of Hyperlinked Organization, entitled, “Why Dewey’s Decimal System is prejudiced”:
“There seems to be a disturbing message hidden in the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the organizational scheme first published in 1876 and now used in 95% of US schools: Of the hundred numbers set aside for topics concerning religion, [...]
Newstation
September 4th, 2004Imagine Bloglines without all of the bells and whistles. No registration needed, just a portal of thousands of newsfeeds to read, broken up into numerous categories. Newstation comes pretty close. Click on the feeds on the left to read the content on the right. You can even comment on the stories. [...]
Catch Me If You Can
September 4th, 2004That’s what I think my aggregator and Blogger are saying to me these days. While I have tried to do my best with keeping up with my aggregator, the content is starting to build up on me. The problem? I have been trying to read more about social networks, collaboration, and cooperation [...]
Feed of the Day
September 2nd, 2004LS is the Feed of the Day over at The RSS Weblog. Neat.