David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!:
why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library:
Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop
why pay attention to change
There are best practices to handle change
Why […]
Via Babbledog, I learned May 1 is RSS Awareness Day. Spread the feeds!
Thanks for sharing, Ken!
NewsGator is offering FeedDemon for Windows, NetNewsWire for Mac, NewsGator Go for Mobile , NewsGator Inbox for Microsoft Outlook and NewsGator Online RSS Reader for free!
For more info:
http://www.newsgator.com/
Posted by Rich
Jake Shapiro of Public Radio Exchange, whom I’ve met a few times through various Berkman Center for Internet & Society events, tells Weekend America host Bill Radke about the Public Radio Talent Quest, the search for a new radio host. PRX started it as a contest open to anyone and receive a myriad of submissions, […]
Mashable: Social Networking News has published the Ultimate RSS Toolbox: 120+ RSS Resources
http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/
The list includes readers, feed validators, plugins, mixers, and other items for Windows, Mac and Linux systems
Link via the Distant Librarian
http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/
I’m sure I probably caused a few of you who read the feed of j’s scratchpad a little bit of stress over the weekend by not blogging. You might have seen the post about the new platform, but by not receiving any content, you weren’t sure if something was wrong or if I just wasn’t […]
Inmagic, a library vendor offering several different technology products, has added RSS capabilities to its latest WebPublisher PRO v10, scheduled to be released in a few days. Their press release has more details.
Many of us keep hoping library system vendors will do more with feeds. Here’s one that is.
noticed on Library Stuff
Many people have different thoughts about whether reposting someone else’s XML Feed (RSS, Atom) breaks copyright law or a licensing agreement. I’ve spoken about this before, too, (but I’m too lazy to look for that exchange or those exchanges now) and had at least one heated debate via e-mail with someone over this topic.
If someone […]
When I went to The Boston Globe Web site recently, I noticed a prominent link to some podcasts. I’m not sure how long they’ve been podcasting, but I didn’t notice the link about a week or so ago. They offer several based on the news and their columnists.
(I ended up being unexpectedly offline this past […]
Mark Frydenberg, a Bentley College professor, told us about his work with podcasting and new technologies during Tuesday’s Berkman Luncheon series. He first started doing his own podcasts of his lectures, but when he realized no one was really using them, he got his students to do the podcasts instead. He’s doing a bit with […]