Archive for October 11th, 2005

Reminder: Feeding Frenzy in Wisconsin, Registration Deadline Monday (10/17)

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

There’s way too much space at my upcoming talk in Madison, Wisconsin. If you know nothing about feeds or if you think you know everything about feeds, you’ll probably (hopefully) learn something. It’s not going to be another introduction to blogs and feeds. I’m going to focus strictly on feeds and some of the neat [...]

NELINET: Changing Channels: Libraries Delivering Content

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

On Friday, November 4, NELINET, a New England library cooperative, is hosting a seminar on blogs, wikis, feeds, and wireless technologies. Registration costs from $140 to members to $230 for nonmembers.
I’m supposedly going to talk about RSS in libraries. I wonder if I can slip some Atom in there, too, or if I’m only supposed [...]

Yahoo! News Includes Weblogs

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

This Associated Press article discusses Yahoo!’s inclusion of weblogs in their news site. Results come from about 6500 selected blogs and are displayed in a box on the right separating them from results from media outlets.
The article claims Google News doesn’t include blogs. I used to receive results from blogs when I used that search [...]

Wall Street Journal: Remember Google is More than just an Internet Search Engine; It has Ambition, too.

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

In his Wall Street Journal column Real Time, Jason Fry examines Google’s Google Print project, mentions the current copyright concerns, and reminds us that the people behind Google have ambition.
(I can’t even think about the word ‘ambition’ anymore without thinking about pythons that try to eat alligators. Good thing that python went after a small [...]


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