Wireless Access?
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Wireless Access?


The RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed seems to be working fine. I think many folks have switched from visiting the Web site to getting the items on a news reader. Now the next frontier is wireless. Does anyone (Shifted Librarian, Handheld Librarian) have their content available for use in Palm devices? How can this be done? It should be fairly simple.




- Filtering
At my recent talk I pointed folks to my FURL site for links to all the tools I discussed. I've just received a note from a school librarian saying the filter will not allow access to that site. That is so wrong. Is Google or Yahoo filtered? FURL and...

- Rss & The Opac
The author of 43 Folders asks if it is possible to get an RSS feed of the library books he has checked out. The ensuing comments are enlightening. All library systems should have a clean, easy, well documented Web services AIP. Seen on librarian.netThe...

- Bf Top Site Award
Catalogablog has won the Bloggerforum Top Site Award twice. I think the Handheld Librarian has done the same. This shows librarians know how to present information in an accessible manner. We have beat sites like Wesley Clark, Howard Dean and Dave Barry,...

- Rss 2.0
Missed this standard update when it happened last week. RSS (Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Summary) now has a new version, RSS 2.0. RSS 0.9X is on a seperate track and may become RSS 3.0 at some point in time. It does not look like the two protocals...

- Rich Site Summary (rss)
At http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/rss.html RDF Rich Site Summary (RSS) there is more information about RSS than most of us would care to know. I still find the Lowery article the best introduction. I've been interested in learning more about Rich...



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