Library Stuff

As Peter Rukavina suggests, this may be a placebo effect, but I could swear that Firefox is working much faster after I made the changes…

I’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 blog post headlines. The subject of displaying blog content on a “regular web page” comes up often during our workshops on RSS and I’ll be thrilled to show this one off. Great work. (link via Librarian In Black)

I 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 get one for recent changes to Wikipedia, but not to the current events page. I’m baffled.

Pete 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 customized feeds for a keyword searches. That’s hot.

If 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.