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. [...]
Many libraries are doing neat things with XML feeds and their catalogs. One example I found via RSS4Lib shows how the Library Systems Office at George Mason University displays new books in a specific call number with a feed integrated into Voyager, a type of online catalog. Wally Grotophorst posts the technical details on iNode, [...]
The blogosphere and my e-mail inbox are buzzing with the news about Kebberfegg, a new tool that allows people to set up keyword searches using various sources delivered through the magic of RSS feeds via OPML or HTML. (I’m assuming you probably know what HTML is. OPML is outline processor markup language. It’s what aggregators [...]
At first, I thought subscribing to XML feeds of Yahoo! Groups was a bit redundant. I receive them in my aggregator and in various e-mail acccounts, too. Something’s going on with my Yahoo! mail, though, and I haven’t been receiving e-mail in a timely fashion. I can’t tell what exactly is happening, but several times [...]
Just watching my own behavior now, I’m learning that I’m much more likely to read something that comes to me; and, since I blog, I’m likely to write about what I see and point to the links I have on hand. With some blog posts, like the one about the Open Content Alliance, I make [...]
What rock have I been under that I didn’t realize National Public Radio offered such cool podcasts?
They also offer lots of feeds.
I love it when things like this happen: A client asked me about the possibility of converting XML feeds to e-mail, which is something I was going to look up for an upcoming talk anyway. Here are some tools I found, most of which come from two posts on The Distant Librarian, who wondered the [...]
One of my blog group colleagues has a completely awesome pin that looks like an orange RSS button. I’ve been trying to find one off and on for a few months. It would be /awesome/ if I could wear one to my next two presentations, which focus on feeds. If anyone has any idea where [...]