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I’m at Dan Gillmor’s talk about citizen journalism at Berkman right now. [...]

For an article I’m writing about developments in XML feeds over the last two years as they relate to news librarians, I’ve been researching what news organizations are doing with podcasts and vodcasts (syndicating video content via XML feeds).
The Next Big Things for Newspapers: Podcast, Vodcast in Editor & Publisher

Those of you who have attended one of my presentations about weblogs and libraries might remember me showing a long list of libraries with weblogs. That list is now available as a wiki. Amanda writes about her decision to change formats.
I asked Amanda if there’s a place in her list for librarians like me who [...]

Unshelved’s Sunday comic strip features Terry Pratchet’s The Color of Magic. My now-dead friend Phil introduced me to Terry Pratchet through his insistence that I read Mort. Thanks, Phil!

Uh … Whoops. I knew there was something I should have posted last night … My apologies …
On Monday, I received an announcement from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society about Yochai Benkler speaking on the wealth of networks on Tuesday, April 18, at 5:45 pm in 102 Hauser Hall at Harvard Law [...]

I began reading this article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about high-definition DVDs because a colleague pointed out that it’s a front page story written by a news researcher, but I realized quickly some of you might be quite interested in it because of its discussion about DVDs and what’s next. Apparently, Toshiba and Sony [...]

Last week, I learned about the Hyde Collection Catablog by John Overholt, which focuses on a large Samuel Johnson collection donated to Harvard University’s Houghton Library a few years ago. John writes in his description of the blog:
"As the cataloger of the printed book portion of the collection, I have the privilege of examining each [...]

Remember the news that a New England library was subpeoned as part of an anti-terrorism investigation under the USA Patriot Act, but no one could say who received the request for information? The New York Times has an update.
"After fighting ferociously for months, federal prosecutors relented yesterday and agreed to allow [the Library Connection of [...]

Jenny, The Shifted Librarian and a member of the RSS Advisory Board, shares her perspective on changing the common orange XML button to a symbol she thinks makes more sense to indicate syndication.
On the Feedster blog, James writes about one of the challenges to using XML feeds is getting people to recognize that they’re actually [...]

I don’t know how I missed the news about HigherEd BlogCon, me being heavily involved in a university blog project and all. I saw a post about it on Information Wants to Be Free. Meredith also writes about the first day of this past week, which focused on how libraries are using blogs.
The free conference [...]