Entries from RSS4Lib tagged with 'RSS'
Survey Report on Librarians' Use of Online Tools
A recent survey of WebJunction users showed some interesting statistics on use of various online tools by librarians (the write-up is at at "Library Staff Report Their Use of Online Tools"). The trend from the survey indicates that social media...
FreeMyFeed: A Really (Poor) Clever Idea
Have you even wanted to subscribe to an RSS feed in Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Bloglines or Google Reader (or anywhere else, for that matter), but discover that the feed is inconveniently served from behind a login-protected server? We all...
RSS Readers Not Dead Yet
ReadWriteWeb says, "5 Reasons Why RSS Readers Still Rock." To summarize the post, here are the five reasons RSS readers are still relevant, according to RWW: Control over Information Flow Evolving User Interfaces Tracking Twitter Mobile News Categorized News This...
Spectives: A Nice Tool that Abuses Intellectual Property
I found a new tool (via a review at ReadWriteWeb) that offers a visual presentation of changing RSS feeds: Spectives, a "search for visual news." Conceptually, it's quite interesting. Its use of intellectual property is unfortunate. Spectives is focused on...
Internet Librarian Thoughts
I attended my first Internet Librarian conference this past week in beautiful Monterey, California. While my blog posts were infrequent, I soaked up a lot of good information from the presenters. Wednesday morning's session with a panel of three 'born...
Google Chrome 3.0: No RSS. Does It Matter?
Google today released a new version of Google Chrome for Windows. (The Mac version is coming later this year, Google promises.) Like its predecessors, this one also fails to support RSS natively in the browser -- which means that, when...
RSS and Atom Comparison
What's the difference between RSS and Atom? Both are XML formats, both are in common use, and most people who read RSS feeds don't need to know the technical differences between them. Atom was designed to resolve the incompatibilities among...
JavaScript RSS Box Viewer
I stumbled across yet another RSS embedding tool, the prosaically named JavaScript RSS Box Viewer. (See the "related posts" section below for my descriptions of several other similar tools.) RSS Box Viewer gives you a great deal of control over...
Facebook Notes Redirects Your Feeds
I jumped on the Facebook bandwagon as it was pulling out of town and created a Facebook page for RSS4Lib (become a fan!). In the process, as I was adding the RSS feed for this blog using the Notes tool,...
Feedmil Finds Feeds
A new feed-finding search engine, Feedmil, has made an appearance. Feedmil is a feed-only search engine with some clever interface features to help you narrow down your search. Feedmil's Google-inspired front page asks, "what are you into?" and provides a...
Mr. RSS Goes to Washington
Have you seen the just-relaunched www.whitehouse.gov? Take a moment and look: (Click for larger image) From the tone of the welcome message from the White House's Director of New Media, this blog is intended to be relatively informal. It's clearly...
TicTOCs: It's about Time
The JISC ticTOCS service has been formally launched after a significant trial period. (I first wrote about this service in July 2007.) The ticTOCs service aggregates the tables of contents (TOCs) from 11,470 scholarly journals from 422 publishers, for a...
FeedVis: An RSS Tag Cloud on Steroids
FeedVis is a word cloud/feed visualization tool. Give it a bunch of RSS feeds (in OPML), it will digest them for you, and present a word frequency chart which you can interact with by selecting date ranges, specific blogs, or...
Another RSS-to-PDF Tool, This One from HP
Tabbloid is a utility provided by HP that takes one or more RSS feeds and converts them to a PDF document. The PDFs can either be emailed to you on a schedule you set -- hourly, daily, or weekly --...
Using WorldCat Grid Services in Library Applications -- Access 2008
Roy Tennant OCLC Research Grid Services -- a set of APIs to access WorldCat data. It's not for human consumption, but for machine-to-machine communication. We'll talk about a few services, with a few demos. Many of APIs -- OCLC's and...
Thunder Talks -- Access 2008
Thunder Talks are brief (4 minutes 30 seconds!) talks on any subject the speaker wants to talk about. Without further ado: BiblioCommons Rolled out at Oakville (Ontario) Public Library. Live implementation of the tool (the research leading to BiblioCommons was...
RSS for Kindle Readers
Reading RSS on Amazon's Kindle reader through the web browser can be slow and inefficient. There's a new tool, kindlefeeder.com that automates the process by sending you, by email, the RSS feeds you wish to read. Once you've created an...
RSS Mixer
RSS Mixer, a recently released as an "alpha", lets you create an account, input one or more RSS feeds, and gives you a combined output. Once you've set up an account (using OpenID or a one-off account at the site),...
Putting a Creative Commons License in Your Feeds
Did you know you that it's easy to add a creative commons license to your RSS and Atom feeds -- not just to your blog's web site? Here are brief instructions for adding your Creative Commons license to RSS and...
Creative Commons and Blogging
Copyright and RSS frequently appear to be ill-suited bedfellows. On one side we have the author's desire to have one's content distributed as widely as possible. On the other, we have the publisher's desire to control the way one's content...
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