Archive for December, 2004
Washington State University Joins the Academic Blogging Party
December 31st, 2004I’m still working my way through my blogging drafts. Next up: PBJ: A personal journaling tool for the WSU community.
It looks like they have had it running for a while. They currently have 134 journals, which is a decent number. I am still floored by the presentation by Shane Nackerud [...]
The Difference Between Library Conferences and IT Conferences
December 30th, 2004Well, one IT conference at least. The very popular Consumer Electronics Show will be held in Las Vegas in next week and I was shocked to read that they will not be allowing bloggers in. From an article in Infoworld:
“The CEA spent more time qualifying attendees this year to make sure everyone in [...]
3 Del.icio.us Tools
December 30th, 2004Three del.icio.us tools came through my aggregator today via, you guessed it, del.icio.us.
1) From Hublog (the creator of of one of the most useful RSS tools on the planet - Hubmed) comes “Be the Coolest”:
“Want to be the first to find an exciting new thing? Run this on any del.icio.us page for a URL (eg [...]
Fluffy…You Can Come Out Now
December 28th, 2004I just got off the phone with my new boss and I can officially go live with this.
Starting January 3rd, I will employed full-time at PubSub. I’ve always wanted to work in the blog/RSS field and this is my opportunity to do so. I’ll be heading up some new projects (I can’t tell [...]
Waypath Redesigns and Adds New Features
December 28th, 2004Gary Price mentions (and he IM’d me to make sure I saw it - thanks buddy) that Waypath (another one of those “little engines that could” that I love so much) had a busy day. First, they redesigned the site (a bit busy but much better than before), created a new logo (I love [...]
Speeding Up Firefox?!
December 28th, 2004As Peter Rukavina suggests, this may be a placebo effect, but I could swear that Firefox is working much faster after I made the changes…
UK SLA Blog
December 28th, 2004I’m a bit behind in my postings (I’m going through my drafts pile tonight), but I had to take a moment to congratulate the UK School Library Association on their new weblog. Not only is this great news, but they link to it on their front page and use RSS Digest to diaplay the [...]
Current Events From Wikipedia
December 28th, 2004I was taking a look at the Wikipedia page for the earthquake and linked over to Current Events. I love that they are interspersing the wiki with links to news stories from the mainstream press (Reuters, BBC, CNN). I hate that I can’t get an RSS feed for it. I can [...]
Baltimore Sun RSS Feeds Aplenty
December 28th, 2004Pete Weiss writes in with the news that the Baltimore Sun has more RSS Feeds for your viewing pleasure. I think they might have set a record for the most feeds for an online newspaper (I can’t get one from Newsday and this one has a gazillion of ‘em). Also, they have implemented [...]
Thoughts and Prayers
December 26th, 2004If you want to keep up to date with the aftermath of the earthquake and resulting tsunamis in South-East Asia, I’ve created a PubSub feed for the tragic story.
Is There a Rift in Your Marriage?
December 26th, 2004If so, it may be due to search engine differences…
Media Chest
December 25th, 2004Mediachest “allows members to manage their collections of books, DVDs, CDs and video games by creating a personal library. The site facilitates both the borrowing and lending of these items in a fashion similar to online auctions — without the fees. Mediachest’s system offers, free of charge, user profiles, feedback pages and popularity rankings. Employing [...]
LISFeeds 2.0
December 25th, 2004Even though I had nothing to do with it, I figured that I would mention that we (well, Blake) rolled out a new version of LISFeeds this week. Didja notice? There are now 123 library-related feeds included on the page with a bunch of neat little options.
+ New Items - Displays posts [...]
PubSub in 2005
December 23rd, 2004Bob Wyman gives us a small hint of what PubSub will be doing in 2005. I can’t wait.
Great quote from the promo: “In 2005, I’ll know more in less time”
Why I love Peter Scott
December 23rd, 2004I don’t know how Peter Scott does it. He is a master at finding RSS tools, new feeds, etc. I just love it. On Tuesday, he mentioned this:
Mealey’s via RSS - “LexisNexis Mealey Publications and Conferences group now makes its top headlines available via an RSS feed. Simply add our channel - listed [...]
Durl
December 23rd, 2004Robin Millette has created a really neat tool that enables users to find out who linked to a specific URL in del.icio.us. It’s called Durl. There is even an RSS Feed to get updates everytime someone links to any URL.
Suggestion - If someone links to any permalink from my weblog, it won’t come up [...]
Say What Walt?
December 23rd, 2004Walt Crawford casually throws a humdinger into a post on his personal blog:
“By the way…the first issue of Cites & Insights volume 5, and the first sponsored by YBP Library Services, is now in the works. I’d guess it will appear on Sunday. Given list outages next week, it may not be publicized quite as [...]
Reason Number 567 to have a Weblog
December 23rd, 2004From an article in the New York Times titled, “E-Mail Doesn’t Take a Holiday“:
“Of the 1,000 e-mail messages he typically receives after a week off, 200 of them, he said, are spam. Another 150 are what he really hates: ‘chime-in’ e-mails, or messages copied to several people, each of whom replies with a thanks, a [...]
Oxford University Press Journals via RSS
December 22nd, 2004Teri Vogel points out that the Oxford University Press Journals now provide abstracts of their journals via RSS. Teri does have a valid point when she says:
“I’m delighted to see another major publisher of science journals move forward with this service, but why, why have they not put a list of the feeds on [...]
Last Call for PLA Bloggers at ALA Mdiwinter
December 22nd, 2004Still not sure if you want to be a part of librarian blogging history? You only have 2 more weeks to decide because I need to go from “find bloggers” mode to “prepare to blog” mode and that starts on January 1st.
So, if you want in, shoot me an e-mail. For those that [...]
Question
December 22nd, 2004Should libraries/librarians be podcasting? I think that there is room in the library world for this new phenomenon. Conference presentations come to mind, but this is not specifically related to our profession. Audio books via podcasting would be interesting as well. Are any libraries podcasting material yet? Is it worth it? [...]
Reason Number 234 to Switch to Firefox
December 22nd, 2004Thomas N. Burg points to Research Buddy, a Firefox extention that assists students in collecting, storing, and maintaining quotes from content read online. From the site:
“The user finds a quote on a webpage and wants to reference the quote in her paper.”
“The user selects the text of this quote, and, in the right-click menu, selects [...]
Hiatus
December 21st, 2004Due to some unfortunate (but non-threatening) family issues and unusually busy consulting deadlines, I’m going to have to put Library Stuff on hiatus for a large portion of this week. I’ll probably be back on Thursday or Friday. Hopefully sooner.
BTW, I am fine. Perfectly fine. Anxiety/panic level is stable and I [...]
More From Feedmarker
December 20th, 2004I love watching new aggregators develop, especially those whose creators try to think out of the box and develop something as nifty as Feedmarker. Bruno updated his “tagging aggregator” this weekend, complete with new domain name, logo, and working tags (well, most of the time). You can see how the user-created tags work [...]
Toot Toot
December 18th, 2004Every now and then I have a good PR week. This was one of those weeks. I was quoted in two articles about the Google Library initiative. One from Eweek.com and the other from The Register (Thanks Gary). Also, I was on the front cover of the Long Island Business News for [...]
Blog Books
December 17th, 2004In an article titled, A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books), from the New York Times:
“Not everyone, though, is convinced that bloggers’ skills translate to longer-form books. “The style of blog writing is more oriented towards short form one page, set in the moment,” said Scott Rettberg, an assistant professor of new media studies [...]
Feedmarker
December 17th, 2004Bruno Bornsztein introduces Feedmarker:
“Feedmarker is a web-based RSS aggregator with del.icio.us-style tagging. It is very, very beta right now…I am not a programmer. I don’t even know what “beta” means. Let me know what you think.”
I gave it a quick whirl. While there are bugs (the “tags” don’t seem to be working), the concept [...]
Feedmelegal
December 17th, 2004I subscribe to InSITE, which is a current awareness newsletter put out by the Cornell Law Library. I’ve been on it for years and the resources that they provide are high quality and well worth perusing (law librarian or not). The other day, they pointed to Feedmelegal, which is a weblog about “weblogs, [...]
Washington File (WF) News Feed in RSS format
December 17th, 2004The ever diligent Peter Scott mentions that the US Department of State is now providing RSS Feeds for their Washington File News. There are 12 feeds available for your aggregating pleasure.
Weblogs and Libraries - A Review
December 17th, 2004Phil Bradley has a review on Free Pint of Laurel A Clyde’s book titled, “Weblogs and Libraries”.
“Consequently, it will be of value to anyone with an interest in weblogs, or simply someone who wishes to know rather more about them, particularly those individuals who work in the library and information science field.”