“… 2004, it seems, is the year the RSS feed…is going mainstream,” boasts this Forbes article about RSS. “We’ve been using NetNewsWire on an Apple Computer Macintosh for the past several weeks and have come away thinking there may be a future in this RSS thing.”
The brief article mentions a few news readers and gives [...]
An RSS article reader thinks I didn’t give an adequate discription of what to do to subscribe to a feed. He was inspired by my article and wanted to get going with RSS, but wasn’t sure what to do to get started.
In order to receive RSS feeds, there are three things you need to do:
If [...]
The Harvard Crimson reports that Kummel Library, a geology collection containing 60,000 books, 42,000 maps and 800 journals, will merge with the science library Cabot. To make space for Kummel’s collection, the Environmental Information Center (EIC) and Environmental Science and Public Policy Archive (ESPPA) currently housed in Cabot will move to Littauer Hall, closer to [...]
The rumors about the librarian action figure being available for sale in Harvard Square are true. The store Hidden Sweets, near the intersection of Brattle and Eliot Streets, has it along with a selection of Accoutrements action figures. The librarian costs $9.95 and comes in a slight different package than the one I received from [...]
I had an offblog conversation about the drawbacks of receiving an RSS feed versus visiting a site with someone who read my RSS article. I did not address them in my article because of space limitations and what aspects of RSS I wanted to cover in the article.
There are a number of things on a [...]
The next program of the Speical Libraries Association Boston Chapter is a tour of the Mary Baker Eddy Library at the Christian Science complex in Boston. The archives has digitized a lot of their material. Staff will talk about the collection and digitization efforts. The Mapparium is also on the tour schedule.
The program is Wednesday, [...]
Dave Winer posted a “reserve this date” notice for BloggerCon 2, tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 10, 2004, and a brief description of the conference on the BloggerCon blog.
Addendum 2/23: Because of the conflicts with the Passover and Easter holidays, Dave is planning to move the date of the conference. He’s looking at Saturday, April [...]
Liz Donovan, a news librarian who blogs for The Miami Herald, wrote about Mike’s Google Answers challenge to me in a post about the value of librarians that highlights virtual reference services and databases available through some of Florida’s libraries. She even pointed to it from her own blog: Infomaniac: Behind the News.
I saw Mike [...]
(By the time you look at my aggregator, it might be gone. Check back next Thursday.)
As I was scrolling through my aggregator tonight, I noticed something that looked strangely familiar: the weekly ResourceShelf e-mail reminder! Yes! Another great use of RSS to distribute information.
The e-mail reminder contains a sample of the excellent things Gary Price [...]
I finally got a chance to look into Mike’s Google Answers challenge about John Edwards’ career as a personal injury attorney. Even though it took me more than a week to get to Mike’s questions, no one from Google Answers had touched it yet.
I found a few good newspaper articles that gave synopses of John [...]