Archive for January, 2005
PLA Blog Goes Live
January 11th, 2005This week is the big event. My team and I will attempt to blog as much of ALA Midwinter as possible, bringing you up to the minute reports. Today, I went live with the PLA Blog. A hearty thank you goes out to the following for their assistance: Blake Carver, Kathleen Hughes [...]
Subscribe to Book Price Changes at isbn.nu
January 11th, 2005I always been a fan of isbn.nu since Gary introduced it to me about 2 years ago. The other day, Glenn Fleishman (the creator of the site) made a neat upgrade:
“I’ve long thought about adding a feature that would allow people to sign up for notifications about when a book price changed or became [...]
Lektora
January 11th, 2005Say hello to Lektora, a new aggregator that runs on your browser (IE or Firefox). Some features from the press release:
“Simple browser integration — Lektora adds a new button on the browser toolbar. In one click, Lektora gathers news from user-selected news sites and weblogs and presents the information in a familiar journal [...]
Why I Love My Wife - Reason Number 1327
January 11th, 2005When I arrived home from work today, she mentioned that she went to the PubSub site and created a feed for Bare Essentials, her new favorite cosmetic. I asked her if she used quotes around her query and she said the she hadn’t. I told her that her results would be awful because [...]
Corporate Library Blogs
January 11th, 2005I have an article titled Corporate Library Blogs [PDF] in the latest issue of b/iTe, the newsletter of the Information Technology Division of the Special Libraries Association. Enjoy.
CNN Feeds are Official
January 11th, 2005Paul Beard notes that CNN has put up an RSS Feed page. They’ve got 13 of them.
Blogtrack.com
January 11th, 2005I’d love to see Blog Track in action. Does anyone know anyone over at that domain that can hook me up with an account? Maybe they “PubSub” their name or URL and will read my plea.
Del.icio.us & Flickr - You Put Your Right Hand In…
January 10th, 2005Hallie loves to do the Hokey Pokey these days. She sings the whole “shake it all about” song and makes us join in. It never occurred to me that since Flickr and Del.icio.us have similar tagging structures that they could both do the Hokey Pokey, turn themselves around, and create a taggregator.
This is [...]
Collact
January 7th, 2005Collact (Collective Action):
“Have you ever wanted to share an interesting website or article with your friends, but didn’t want to go through the hassle of opening up your email program? Well, give Collact a try! Collact makes it effortless to share and discuss websites with your friends… and it is totally free.”
“Here’s how it [...]
Skype Has “NOW” Entered the Library Blogosphere?! Who Cares? Not Me.
January 7th, 2005Meredith Farkas blogs:
“Has anyone else just noticed that Skype has been mentioned a whole bunch over the past few days? I’ve now heard about it from Steven Cohen, Library Web Chic, Dave’s Blog, and Tame the Web. However, I’ve been hearing about it for many, many months now as my husband uses it to talk [...]
Cutting Through
January 7th, 2005I’ve just subscribed to Cutting Through - A live case study
“A live case study to show how to cut through the information and technology clutter - A lot of our work is now centring on using social software technology to reduce information problems in business. So this blog is designed to share our knowledge and [...]
Ask and Ye Shall Recieve
January 7th, 2005Merlin Mann asks about (and receives great answers) for getting library catalog features in his aggregator..
Maybe Merlin can help us out in getting through to the vendors so that these awesome coders wouldn’t have to hack their systems.
Note to Self
January 7th, 2005Take MyRSS out of future presentations. It looks like it’s not free anymore. They’ve launched a fee-based monitoring service. Imagine all of the dead links that will appear in Syndic8. Yikes! (link via Sen No Sen)
OLITA RSS Toolkit
January 6th, 2005How did I miss this? The Ontario Library and Information Technology Association has a Primer on RSS. One important addition that wasn’t mentioned (and one that Jenny tries to get across when we do our presentations) is that if your library has a weblog, then they have an RSS Feed. The term [...]
CNN and RSS - It’s About Time
January 6th, 2005Paul Beard notes that CNN has finally dolled out their own RSS feeds. They must be testing it out because I find no mention of it on their site. It looks like they have 5 of ‘em working. Great news.
Funny anecdote: I ran cnn.com in Feedfinder. Check out all the [...]
Watching It All In Real Time
January 6th, 2005Today, we added a new feature to the frontpage: the Subscription of the Day (SOTD). I’m very excited about it because it was one of the first projects that I took on and will work with every day.
I also got a real-time perspective of how stories unfold in the blogworld and then eventually [...]
Collaborative Reading about Collaborative Software
January 6th, 2005Will Richardson (who Skyped me today - Doesn’t sound right if you don’t know what I’m talking about) points to 13 quick-reading essays on academic blogging but has no time to read them (join the club). So, he quotes from the last few sentences from each one. Odd: The quotes read like one [...]
New Aggregator Coming Out
January 6th, 2005I was notified today of a new aggregator (The creator e-mailed me). I played with it a bit and was impressed. More next week when I can go public with it.
Oishii!
January 5th, 2005From David Wiley comes oishii!
“One of the main purposes of social bookmarking systems is allowing people to see what other people are bookmarking. I frequently find things that people are linking to very interesting, and thought it would be nice to slap together a system that could tell me, automatically, what lots of other people [...]
Serialized eBooks via RSS
January 5th, 2005Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that this has been done before, but I can’t help myself. Russell Beattie has added to the serialized-books-via-RSS phenomenon. He writes:
“I added a new feature to Mobdex. You can now subscribe serially to any of the ebooks there. Simply find a book, note it’s ID number, [...]
RSS Digest Version 2 Released
January 5th, 2005For those that are looking for an easy way to place feeds on your site, RSS Digest is the hottest software to use right now. Today, they released version 2, with hot new features:
+ A total rewrite. Every unoptimized system is now the epitome of fast
+ Select from pre-existing feeds
+ Use real HTML instead [...]
Do You Skype?
January 5th, 2005One of the neat aspects of working for a technology company is that we use Skype to communicate with one another. Yesterday, I had a conference call with the CEO and another employee who was in another part of the country. Maybe I’m just bright-eyed about this entire experience (ask me over a [...]
Technoratti Keyword Watchlists
January 5th, 2005For obvious reasons, I’ll have to take a look at this brand-spanking new feature from Technorati.
Conference Blogging - Learning From Each Other
January 4th, 2005Gabriela Avram on blogging at conferences:
“Why do we spend time on this? It is really time consuming and hard to locate all these people and places and papers in order to add the necessary links to the posts, besides the editing of your own conference notes. And it interferes with our day-to-day work, and makes [...]
Are Your Users Part of the 5%? What about the 27%?
January 4th, 2005The newest Pew Report on Blogging is all over the place today, so no need to overkill it. One question for you, however:
“8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators [...]
Bloggers Get Together at ALA?
January 3rd, 2005Lis asks about a possible bloggers “get together” at ALA Midwinter. I told Lis that even though I can’t help to organize it (I’ll be too busy with the PLA Blog), I’d love to attend. If you would like to assist, comment on her post (or this one, I guess).
Bacon’s Monitors Blogs…Manually?
January 3rd, 2005This story has made the rounds this past week. Bacon’s Information will be monitoring 250 blogs for their client. Good news for the blogosphere, but read this:
“McFarland said her team will “spot check” blogs on a rotating basis, because three editors, together dedicating 60 man hours per week, will not have time to [...]
2005 - The Year of the 43 New Goals
January 3rd, 2005I Furl’d 43 Things last week after reading this quickie article from the Seattle Times. When I read the article, the site had yet to go live, so I revisited both the article and the site this afternoon.
43 Things is a site about goals and how different people can share the same wishes [...]