Entries from RSS4Lib tagged with 'syndication'
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...
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,...
AP, Bloggers, and Fair Use
The Associated Press has stepped back from its original position on copyright and the blogosphere and will be developing a (hopefully) more nuanced policy. According to an article in the June 16 issue of The New York Times, "The Associated...
Google Has an RSS Embedding Tool
Paul Pival at The Distant Librarian noted a tool from Google that I had not been aware of: the Dynamic Feed Control Wizard, a JavaScript that you can embed in your web site to pull in RSS headlines and summaries...
Snazzy Icons for iPhone/iPod Touch Web Clips
Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch allow users to save "web clips" -- favorite web pages -- directly to the device's home screen -- so one tap of the finger on the icon takes you directly to that site. By default,...
RSS and Legal Liability
A French court has found that the publisher of a web site is liable for invasion of privacy because it republished rumors, via RSS feeds, that were themselves libelous. See French Websites liable for story in RSS reader (Out-Law.com). The...
Best Practices for Building RSS 2.0 Feeds
Like many standards, the RSS 2.0 Specification provides detailed instructions for what elements must or may be in an RSS feed and, in broad terms, how to format them. However, the specification does not -- nor should it -- provide...
Bloglines Supports Cascading Style Sheets
Bloglines latest innovation will blur the line between reading a news item in its "native" form and reading it via RSS even further. In an announcement Tuesday (18 September), Bloglines released limited support for Cascading Style Sheets within blog posts...
Welcome to the Cut and Paste Web
Content, having reached the age of majority, has left home and is out trying to make its own way in the world. Some "digital parents" are reflexively clutching at their wayward bits, trying to keep on the on the home...
Flog Blog: RSS to Facebook
Another clever Facebook tool that has potentially significant benefit for libraries: Flog Blog. This Facebook application allows you to add RSS items to your Facebook profile, displaying the headline and lead sentence, lead paragraph, or a set number of characters....
Getting in Their Face[book]s
Facebook Librarian is an extremely useful application to bring Facebook users (for many of us academic librarians, that translates to the overwhelming majority of our user population) and librarians together. Facebook, as we all know, is a social networking site....
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