Library Cataloging
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click on the next interesting 'blog. I'm tempted to remove the blogroll at the left and just point to LISFeeds. Remember these guys next year when LJ is looking for the movers and shakers. Slick work, thanks Blake and Steven.This is where I see RSS feeds really being useful. I have a news aggregator but do not find it as useful as other tools. I still visit the sites of most of the 'blogs I read. Until they become more functional and incorporated into browsers, I do not see most folks using them. However, the ability for a Web site to aggregate RSS feeds and then present a packaged group is a useful service. I've also seen 'blogs just display the title of postings from a variety of 'blogs in a sidebar. The ability to repackage and redistribute content makes RSS too important to ignore.
- Blogging
An interview with Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, appeared on Tech TV the other night.Librarians have taken to bloggin in a big way. Steven and Greg have started a 'blog, LIS Blogsource, just to keep up with the new ones appearing. I...
- 'blogs
I'm still thinking about the best way to put Easy News Topics (ENT) to use. It seems Radio Userland can create OPML files. The outliner is not the ideal thesaurus construction tool, but it could work. k-collector is an interesting application using...
- Happy B'day
On March 5, Catalogablog hit the one year mark. I've had a fun learning experience playing with the site, adding RSS feeds, Javascripts, a blogroll, and other items. Writing and posting the items has made them stick in my mind, so maybe I'm a...
- Web Logs
Web logs, what are they good for? Steven M. Cohen recently addressed the issue of why we write them, but why do we read them? In what instances do they work?Here are my views. First, they are one-to-many or a few-to-many format. Topics that require give...
- Information Access
My wife uses a handheld as a replacement for her Franklin Planner. I get by fine with my old Timex Data Link. This past weekend I was messing with her PDA and installed AvantGO on it and selected Catalogablog as my channel. It worked rather nicely. It...
Library Cataloging
Library 'Blogs
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click on the next interesting 'blog. I'm tempted to remove the blogroll at the left and just point to LISFeeds. Remember these guys next year when LJ is looking for the movers and shakers. Slick work, thanks Blake and Steven.This is where I see RSS feeds really being useful. I have a news aggregator but do not find it as useful as other tools. I still visit the sites of most of the 'blogs I read. Until they become more functional and incorporated into browsers, I do not see most folks using them. However, the ability for a Web site to aggregate RSS feeds and then present a packaged group is a useful service. I've also seen 'blogs just display the title of postings from a variety of 'blogs in a sidebar. The ability to repackage and redistribute content makes RSS too important to ignore.
- Blogging
An interview with Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, appeared on Tech TV the other night.Librarians have taken to bloggin in a big way. Steven and Greg have started a 'blog, LIS Blogsource, just to keep up with the new ones appearing. I...
- 'blogs
I'm still thinking about the best way to put Easy News Topics (ENT) to use. It seems Radio Userland can create OPML files. The outliner is not the ideal thesaurus construction tool, but it could work. k-collector is an interesting application using...
- Happy B'day
On March 5, Catalogablog hit the one year mark. I've had a fun learning experience playing with the site, adding RSS feeds, Javascripts, a blogroll, and other items. Writing and posting the items has made them stick in my mind, so maybe I'm a...
- Web Logs
Web logs, what are they good for? Steven M. Cohen recently addressed the issue of why we write them, but why do we read them? In what instances do they work?Here are my views. First, they are one-to-many or a few-to-many format. Topics that require give...
- Information Access
My wife uses a handheld as a replacement for her Franklin Planner. I get by fine with my old Timex Data Link. This past weekend I was messing with her PDA and installed AvantGO on it and selected Catalogablog as my channel. It worked rather nicely. It...