Archive for March, 2005
New Technorati tag feature
March 6th, 2005It looks like Technorati will offer a enhanced ‘related’ tag feature this week:
“The relationships are automatically discerned by the software, analyzing the other tags used by people tagging the same set of pages and photos…There are two types of relationships the “related” tags help with. First, they suggest slightly divergent topics so you can browse [...]
Skype Journal
March 6th, 2005Don’t know what Skype is yet? Want to learn more about my favorite new communication tool? Then subscribe to Skype Journal.
I’m getting new business cards printed up this week and my IM and Skype contacts are on them. I considered excluding my e-mail address, but then thought better of it. [...]
What ALA Can Learn From Educause
March 5th, 2005Educause has a Community Blog Service, where they invite members to participate in blogs:
“Do you have a keen interest in emerging technologies and a spirit of adventure? Then play an active part in the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a pilot project to give association members a hands-on opportunity to explore the use of blogs and [...]
Hennepin County Library Embraces RSS
March 5th, 2005Sarah Houghton (feel better) mentions that the redesign of the Hennepin County Library features an RSS feed of “ongoings” at the library. Phenomenal. It’s funny how small libraries without a techie person on board can match a 40 person web team in the RSS arena. How? By setting up a blog [...]
Surviving Chronic E-Mail Fatigue
March 5th, 2005In his latest column for Computers in Libraries, Andrew K Pace writes about “Surviving Chronic E-Mail Fatigue”. I’ll have get my hands on it when I get to D.C. next week. I wonder if he attempts to solve the unsolvable…
On that note, I have new e-mail guidelines. I read every piece of [...]
wikiSquared - Subscribed!!
March 5th, 2005I’ve just subscribed to wikiSquared, created by Tom Portante. I love the descriptor note:
“In the world of wikis: Everyone is smarter than Any-One”
FeedWatch
March 4th, 2005Feedwatch is a perfect ready reference tool for those interested in what’s being linked to in many of the open tagging systems. It also includes one that I had never heard of, called Jots.
Don’t have time to check your aggregator for what’s happening on the Web? Feedwatch might help in solving the problem.
You’re Welcome
March 4th, 2005I’ve been getting an increasing amount of feedback from colleagues who have heard me rant about weblogs and/or RSS at workshops or in an article. Today, Miriam B left a nice comment:
“Thank-you note from a reader, though not originally a blog reader. One day late in January I ran across your article “Eight Steps [...]
Blog People Button
March 4th, 2005I’ve just ordered my Blog People Button and will wear it proudly at Computers in Libraries in two weeks and at all of the ALA events that I will be attending. (link via Caveat Lector)
A Report From Student Blogging
March 3rd, 2005We’ve seen professors have students participate in classroom blogs or have them start their own as part of a semester long project. Feedback from the students is important. Take a look this paper titled, Blogging In An Online Course: A Report on Student Satisfaction Among First-time Bloggers [PDF], which does exactly that:
“Decision Making [...]
Academic Blogging Initiatives
March 3rd, 2005Amanda is now collecting links to academic blogging initiatives. If you are at all interested in these college-wide blogging ventures, grab the feed and enjoy. Thanks Amanda.
National Statistics Online - RSS Feed
March 3rd, 2005Here’s a good reference and collection development feed to subscribe to. The National Statistics Online from the UK (via News Is Free)
The New Wave of Bookmarks
March 3rd, 2005Mary Ellen Bates on The New Wave of Bookmarks:
“My primary objection to del.icio.us is that there is no straightforward way to keep your bookmarks private. The strong default is to share your bookmarks and their associated ‘tags’ with other subscribers. While I understand that this is the way that a social bookmarking system grows, [...]
Tagsy
March 2nd, 2005Tagsy:
“tagsy is a social bookmarks and feed management service, allowing you to save, categorize and browse information based on its popularity and relevance. It was born out of our frustration with fragmentation of content between various blog feeds, feed aggregators, social bookmark managers and other content aggregating services.”
“tagsy’s main objective is to centralize content and [...]
Long Island -> NYC -> Haverford College -> NYC -> Pooped
March 2nd, 2005I traveled to Haverford, PA today to do a workshop on weblogs and RSS, spending most of the day on train after train after train after train. I finally ended up at my friends apartment in NYC and am about to crash. Postings will resume tomorrow night. I did a quick look [...]
Kaser and Ojala - C’mon Down
March 1st, 2005You never know when you will have to do an impromptu session on weblogs. Marydee Ojala and Dick Kaser have been blogging heavily at the NFAIS Annual Conference (you know when event bloggers are doing a good job when you feel like you were there the whole time) and were asked to fill in [...]
The Next Generation of Open Tagging Systems?
March 1st, 2005Take a look at Wists. It has the basics: tag a page via a bookmarklet and it will find a picture that is associated with it. But check out what can be found on the help page:
“Advanced tagging: Wists allows you to create groups of tags, called ‘themes’, in order to manage large [...]