Archive for August 17th, 2004

An Aggregator that Allows Users to Prioritize Feeds

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

Steven Cohen highlights FIRST SAY, an aggregator that seems to specialize in letting users decide on the order of feeds by priority. It uses twenty categories, but it is unclear from the description whether the categories are pre-set or whether users can create their own. There are enterprise and individual versions.

Steven Cohen Discovers Bill Ives’ Portals and KM

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

Bill Ives occasionally comes to the blog meetings and some of my colleagues read his blog regularly, so this item on Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff caught my eye.

How to Start Blogging

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

A colleague innocently asked me about how to start blogging the other day. I finally remembered to put a version of my lengthy response to him online. His main question is how he can blog on his own Web site. I know several services allow bloggers to export or otherwise FTP content to their own [...]

Hidden Data in Computer Files

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

Many of us put computer files online or send files to others without thinking about all of the hidden information they contain. Metadata: Are you Protectected?: Documents can hide damaging information in the August issue of Law Technology News discusses some of the hidden information in Word, WordPerfect, and PDF files. In environments with sensitive [...]