j’s scratchpad

Thomas Gale adds podcasts to some of their resources.

Jenny reports that They Might Be Giants, a really cool, rockin’ band often featuring an accordion, offers a podcast: http://www.tmbg.com/_media/_pod/podcast….. A podcast probably isn’t such a big stretch for them because they’ve been doing something similar to a podcast with different technology for years: Dial a Song. They put a song as the outgoing message on [...]

On ZDNet, Phil Wainewright speculates on what’s next with feeds. Are people tired of using aggregators? Is creating one big feed of many feeds the latest important trend? (Is that really as new as the post claims when several aggregators have been doing that for a while?) Is publishing other source’s feeds on our Web [...]

The November/December EDUCAUSE Review takes a look at podcasting in academic environments.

Congrats to Ken Varnum for the ResourceShelf highlighting his blog, RSS4Lib.

beSpacific highlights this pdf whitepaper about the current state of the use of RSS. It includes data on the demographics of feed consumers as well as what kind of content they receive.
(The paper might be using RSS in the broad sense, meaning that it might also include information about other kinds of XML feeds, not [...]

Okay, so, sometimes I just plain forget things and leave important stuff out of my presentations. I realized during tonight’s walk that I failed to put anything about wikis into my feeds presentation in Wisconsin. I’ll figure out how to work them in for the next round this Friday.
One example is Wikinews. They use FeedBurner [...]

Since my office started offering RSS feeds of Harvard University Gazette headlines, we’ve been getting about one inquiry a week from someone who doesn’t know what RSS is or how to use the feeds. Since I’m the office’s expert on the technology, handling these e-mails has become part of my job.
I realized I know about [...]

Steve Rubel lists some cool things people can do with feeds. Some of these I actually covered in the talk I gave Wednesday.
I’ve seen this post in several places in the blogosphere, like LISNews, but I think someone e-mailed me about it, too … Thanks!

I found a totally awesome button tonight, but it’s not the RSS or XML pin I’ve been seeking to wear during presentations. I was in a cool store that makes my wallet nervous because I can’t go in without making a purchase and noticed a glass bowl of small buttons with individual letters on them. [...]