Someone asked me yesterday if I could program a feed for her Web site. I don’t know how to do that yet. I snickered when Rich randomly sent me an e-mail mentioning these books:
Ben Hammersley
Developing feeds with RSS and Atom
O’Reilly 2005
0596008813
Danny Ayers
Beginning RSS and Atom programming
Wrox 2005
0764579169
Maybe I’ll have to check them out!
On Thursday, June 2, ACRL/NEC Serials Librarians Interest roup/Information Technology Interest Group will present “Here Today; Here Tomorrow?: Journal Archiving in the Electronic Environment” at Harvard’s Gutman Conference Center from 8:30 am to 1 pm. It’s $20.
Thanks, Rich!
A friend who knows about my computer woes recommended that I try to build my own Apple 1. This Wired article focuses on a book describing how to do that for about $100. It almost sounds as fun as playing with engines.
Newton’s Kumquat shares an interesting idea about Wikipedia articles: rating them on reliability by examining several factors. When I first read his words, I immediately thought it wouldn’t work because of vandalism, but I’ve been through about 100 distractions since then and now I can’t remember why it wouldn’t work.
from the Dowbrigade, including a terrific comic about the perils of allowing your siblings to vandalize Wikipedia.
Thanks, Dowbrigade!
especially when the site doesn’t work in my Web browser.
This collection of librarian, tech, and popular weblogs combines all of the categories on the sidebar. It’s kinda weird.
If you’ve been reading the scratchpad for a while, you know that I really like gapingvoid. Hugh illustrates why blogs work as internal and external communication tools and describes it in a very simple manner. It’s one of the best explanations of why people should blog that I’ve seen in a long time. It’s also [...]
A new arrangement with Google Scholar could mean you could find search results linking to resources within your library.