The University of Washington’s Office of News and Information uses RSS feeds to distribute their news content. Their page listing feeds gives some background about RSS, too.
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We talk a bit about people getting fired because of blogging. Here’s a nice contrast: people getting hired because of blogging.
This Globe and Mail article discusses how companies might use someone’s blog to influence their hiring decision and interviews some human resources people and bloggers who got jobs because of their hobbies. A list gives [...]
Scot Capehart of the Boston Public Library will teach the online course Blogging Camp: Easy Content Management Through Web Logs from December 1 through January 15. Students will set up blogs on Blogger and learn a variety of things about weblogs and feeds. The weblog for the course uses Movable Type, so students might gain [...]
The British government rejected recommendations from the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons for changes to the current scholarly publishing model. The government stated it “is not aware that there are major problems in accessing scientific information.”
Despite a misleading detail* in the second paragraph, the New York Times’ Sarah Boxer gives an amusing look at all of the vandalism changes that happened to the Wikipedia entries on John Kerry and US President George W. Bush shortly before and after the US presidential election. It provides a look at why having pages [...]