Archive for the 'RSS' Category
Follow changes to any website with Google Reader
January 25th, 2010Google Reader Blog – “At Google we’re always looking for ways to take advantage of work being done in other parts of the organization. So when a team approached us with a way to follow changes from websites without feeds, we jumped at the opportunity.”
H.U.G.E! Thanks Google Reader gods!
LegalPubs for Greener Law?
November 9th, 2009Stem Legal – “The only way the premise works of course, is for Law Librarians to be using RSS for new product awareness. So the question becomes: Are we there yet?”
Whither RSS
September 5th, 2009Stephen Abram – “As an RSS addict I hope I don’t have to go into detox any time soon. From a library perspective I find RSS much simpler to adopt and manage than Twitter style.”
RSS may be dead for some, and others still use it. To each his own, no? IMO, Twitter for [...]
Don’t you get it yet? Partial feeds kill readership
December 10th, 2008WinExtra – “For the past week or so there has been a slow building steam over this ridiculous habit that some bloggers have of only sending out a partial RSS feed.”
Do We Need a Simpler RSS?
December 8th, 2008Conny Crosby – “Is there a way to make RSS easier?”
IMO, RSS is very simple. It takes about 5 minutes for any “layperson” to understand. Maybe it depends on who is teaching it?
Is RSS Mainstream
November 20th, 2008Is RSS Mainstream? – “I have a simple, unscientific test for determining if a web service or product has crossed over into the mainstream: I ask my friends and family — most of whom are not very geeky and generally represent average technology users, in my opinion — if they’re using the service.”
Tabbloid
November 2nd, 2008I really like this one. Put in your favorite feeds and get a daily PDF “newspaper” version of the feeds.
Create RSS Feeds from Any URL
November 1st, 2008I’m a very big fan of Page 2 RSS, but I will play with Feedbeater as well (via)
Powerpoint from RSS presentation
September 30th, 2008Jason Puckett – “Here are the slides from my presentation at Saturday’s Atlanta Emerging Librarians meeting, on “RSS Tools For Emerging Librarians.â€
Snowl
August 8th, 2008ReadWriteWeb: “A First Look at Mozilla’s Snowl.”
I’m going to take a look at this later.
Marketing. As Simple As….
April 25th, 2008My last post on marketing spurred some e-mails and comments, so I figured I would expand a bit. One question raised via e-mail was a general one with a simple answer.
How?
While the steps that I have taken over the years to market my abilities to attorneys is fine-tuned and a bit outside the box, [...]
Does the Washington Post check its RSS feeds?
March 21st, 2008Hot Air – “They are arguably the most influential newspaper in the US, and certainly one of the most successful. However, they do a very poor job of maintaining their RSS feeds.”
Using RSS As a Life Tool
March 16th, 2008Leslie Poston – “If you are anything like me, RSS feeds are a constant part of your daily life.”
14 “OTHER†Ways to Use RSS Feeds
February 24th, 2008A nice annotated list.
The Law Library of Congress announces the availability of RSS feeds
February 15th, 2008Gary Price has the news.
Congrats to Donna and the gang!
Yahoo Pipes & RSS Feed Mixing
January 10th, 2008Steve Matthews – “[O]nce you do have your content RSS enabled, the next obvious question is — what are you going to do with it?”
Corporate library use of blogs and RSS
December 30th, 2007Some stats via an SLA blog. (via)
2007: The Year in RSS
December 24th, 2007Marshal Kirkpatrick takes a look back.
I think that sharing content via RSS readers is going to be huge in 2008.
Persai
December 17th, 2007An RSS reader based on user interests. Haven’t we seen stuff like this before? It didn’t seem to catch on. I’d rather see feeds that my friends are reading. That’s why the new feature in Google Reader rocks!
743 PR Feeds
November 28th, 2007Pretty substantial number, although I think the librar* community has more. Walt?
RSS @ AccessMyLibrary
November 24th, 2007Gwen over at Internet News has the info
Help, Too Many Feeds to Read
November 18th, 2007Do you have this problem? Say hello to the RSS panic button.
Feed Me ARL
November 18th, 2007A bunch of feeds from the Association of Research Libraries.
LegalPubs.ca
November 1st, 2007Take a look at what Steve Matthews did. Very cool!
More From A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette
October 25th, 2007Sal – “Make sure that you fool your bosses (who are a million times more technophobic than your grandparents) into thinking that you are ‘up on technology’ by making reference to Wikis and RSS content as if they really mattered”
Ha! Love it.
RSS Filtering
October 19th, 2007Steve Matthews – “As I’ve said before, RSS technology is at its best when used as a filtering tool.”
Old Feed Titles
October 12th, 2007Robert Scoble doesn’t like e-mail anymore and I’m not doing Twitter/Facebook/etc these days, so I’m hoping he’ll see this in a blog search for his name.
I’ve had his feed in my reader for quite a while and it still says “Microsoft Geek Blogger” even though he’s been at a new job for longer than a [...]
Custom RSS Feeds
October 6th, 2007The LITA Forum is this weekend, which means the LITA Bloggers are out in force.
This just came across Google Reader. Custom RSS Catalog feeds from BYU. Suweeeeet!
More on Surveys
September 18th, 2007Ryan Deschamps – “Subscriptions are a hard thing.”
I’m glad that Ryan finds my blog RSS-able. It’s what I had in mind when I changed the format a few months back. I’ve received other positive feedback as well. This is the way I used to blog from 2000-2002(ish). We all have our [...]
Metavid
August 20th, 2007“Metavid is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable.” (via)
Run a search. Get an RSS Feed. [...]
