LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest librarian items that have been tagged with 'rss'. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librariantags.php Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:13:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/lehfczUSCYI/ Are you a news junkie like me?  I find myself constantly checking my iGoogle page or Google Fast Flip (http://fastflip.googlelabs.com) to see the latest stories.  I’ve also got my RSS reader going as well. However, one of my biggest problems is figuring out a way to keep my eReader current.  Since I’m using an older model Sony (PRS-505) that has no wireless connection, it’s been challenging in trying to figure out the best way to do this. Recently I’ve found a great application that might be a way around this, helping me to keep my Sony up to date.  I’m talking about an application from HP called “Tabbloid”.  This small application seems to have flown “under the radar” so to speak, but its premise and execution so far have been flawless.  Basically, it’s a small customized newspaper that’s emailed to you each morning and consists of news and other stories created from your own RSS feeds or topics of your choosing.  The service is free and is really easy to use!  Interested? To get started, head to the main Tabbloid page located at http://www.tabbloid.com/.  From there, add your news sources.  These can be feed urls extracted from your current RSS reader, OPML file, or just single addresses that you might already know.  If you’re not much on the techy side of RSS, Tabbloid also has preformatted lists of subjects such as technology, business, sports, etc. that you can choose from. From here, it’s a simple matter of adding your email address and specifying how often you want the delivery to take place.  This can be daily or weekly and you have the option of choosing your time of delivery as well as the time zone you might be living in.  After this, save your customized delivery options and check your email to get started.  Each morning you will get a freshly made PDF as well as a summary email of the contents. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:37:20 +0100 824962 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/UBMfTRrJnE0/ A couple weeks ago I covered Google’s new feature that allows you to monitor pages even when they don’t have RSS feeds. A few days ago reader LP e-mailed me and asked about the new feature, “Did it work?” And I realized I had completely forgotten to write a follow-up post. So yeah, about Google Reader’s new page-monitoring feature…. The first great thing about this feature is that it taught me how many Web pages do in fact have RSS feeds. I went to several places meaning to monitor the page for pages, only to discover that RSS feeds were available now. Yay! I did find some places that did not have RSS feeds, though; the best example is probably the Twitter lists that use Tweets from ResearchBuzz. The URL for the list is http://twitter.com/ResearchBuzz/lists/memberships but I didn’t know of any way to track when new lists were added to this page. So that was my test case for Google Reader. Every change to the page is a new entry in Google Reader. The screenshot above shows an example of an entry. There’s no context on the page, and if I wasn’t familiar with the page content to start with, the entry wouldn’t be useful (in other words, I wouldn’t share it.) I also tried the Google Reader with http://www.ted.com/pages/view?id=348, which is a list of upcoming TEDx events all over the world. Again, I didn’t get any context, just the line that changed. One Google Reader update monitor I did failed. I was trying to monitor a particular business in Google Maps because I wanted to see what kind of reviews they got. I think this might be my fault, however. I looked up the business in Google, and then used the extremely-long-and-awkward URL supplied by Google as my monitoring URL. Google never got an update for that page, and complained that the page didn’t exist. ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:29:54 +0100 821237 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/15/wow-updated-list-of-1100-web-2-0-apps/ Web 2.0 tools and applications: 1100+ Web2 apps listed, annotated Web 2.0 tools, apps and resources for collaboration, communication, RSS, images, start pages, weblogs, wikis and more. Emphasis is on libraries, librarians and information work. Source: Phil Bradley Hat tip: Intute (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:21:44 +0100 818419 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/12/un-post-que-no-trata-de-vampiros/ Va de sangre y no es sobre vampiros: La sangre digital de la Red, una introducción a la sindicación de contenidos mediante archivos en formato RSS o ATOM, mi más reciente post en Weblog Magazine. Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:00:09 +0100 818159 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/eC9KyMgaJxE/ The answer is yes, providing you’re reading this text via RSS. In the move from Blogger to WordPress the old feed (www.travelinlibrarian.info/atom.xml) is now dead. The new/current feed (feeds.feedburner.com/TravelinLibrarian) has actually been working for years and I asked people to move to is quite a while ago. It looks like 400+ people hadn’t ever gotten the message. The FeedBurner version is now the only legit version. Please tell your friends and thanks for your continued support. (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:25:34 +0100 815898 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/Ugs8XXiBjVE/ I’ve been testing a new Google Reader app over the last few days called Reeder, and noticed a UI piece that I hadn’t seen before on the iPhone. Check these pics: On the first one, check the small dot in the upper right. If you swipe it, it folds to the left and shows the text on the second pic. Swipe back, and it goes back to the standard connectivity/time message. This is the first time I’ve ever seen an app take over the title bar…some make it go away, but this is the first I’ve seen with this behavior. Are there any others that do something similar? It says something about the tyranny of the Apple UI guidelines that this shocked me so much.Similar Posts: Connections are Everything What’s up with the numbers? Ok….all I wanna know is: Creative Commons 2.0! Note to self… (Source: Pattern Recognition) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:32:44 +0100 815871 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/oEUk64nvyZI/ So a reader writes to NYT technology columnist David Pogue, saying he wishes there was one button he could push to receive all Pogue’s writings and videos. The reader even suggests a name for this: “David Pogue Direct.” It’s a great idea. But David Pogue says there’s no “one-click Pogue subscription” and that to catch all his content online, one has to subscribe to multiple sources in multiple formats. I think that stinks. I think there should be a one-click way to keep up with Pogue. After all, he’s one of my favorite writers on technology. So…let’s see if we CAN make a one-click Pogue Subscription. We already have an RSS feed for Pogue’s Posts (his NYT blog): http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/ To get his columns, Pogue suggests an email subscription (bleah!). Here’s the feed for his NYT columns: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/david_pogue/index.html?rss=1 Pogue only has one solution to get his videos syndicated, and one to get them sans syndication: * VIDEOS: Subscribe through iTunes . This is better than finding them on the Web, because (a) you’ll never miss one, (b) no ads, (c) higher quality, (d) iPhone/iPod compatibility, and (e) they’re downloaded files, so you can play them at will. [UPDATE: If you're not into iTunes, you can also get the videos on nytimes.com, from my video channel here. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to subscribe to it automatically.] We can do better than that. Want to subscribe to Pogue videos without having to use iTunes? Subscribe to one of these feeds in your favorite aggregator: http://nytsynvideo.com/itunes/5 (.mp4, no advertisements) OR http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/technology/david-pogue/1194811622273/index. ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:36:26 +0100 814884 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/sCvuqK80cxc/zbd-top-10-rss-januari.html In januari 2010 werden, volgens Feedburner, 1101 verschillende feeds van ZBD 73.851 keer bekeken door gemiddeld 2673 abonnees (tegenover 32.920 pagina's door 21.698 unieke bezoekers op de website zelf). De top 10 van deze maand: Alles over ebooks op de MobileRead Wiki Je bibliotheek op de iPhone... Nieuwe vieze stinkbibliotheek In de achteruitkijkspiegel Een punt zetten Omdat het wel kan Ambitie! Koninklijke Bibliotheek gaat.... Klassiekers deel 83 Grunt je vrolijk Leren van de digitale beleving van jongeren En de meest bekeken feed ooit? Dat is 'maak je eigen citatenboek', op de voet gevolgd door 'Een weekendje Ameland' . Je blijft je verbazen! @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:10:00 +0100 814012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/F72ZmA0X4OY/ It’s not as nifty as a cell phone, or as amazing as street views of businesses all over the world, but to me it is big news — really big news. Google announced yesterday that Google Reader can now be used to monitor pages for Web changes — whether they have RSS feeds or not. Ten years after I started using RSS, it’s pretty prevalent but not universal. Google’s announcement means it’s going to be a lot easier to follow those random pages that don’t have RSS feeds for update information. Are you already using the Google Reader for RSS feeds? Adding non-RSS content is easy. Just click on the “Add a Subscription” button and you’ll get a form into which you can paste an RSS feed URL or a regular HTML page URL. Google will ask you to confirm that you would like to create a feed to monitor based on that page. Now, HTML pages are not RSS feeds. Their information is harder to isolate and delineate. So while the idea is that Google is going to “provide short snippets of page changes,” it’s not clear what those snippets are going to look like. Is going going to get hung up on a date change or counter change? (This has been a problem in the past with software like WebSite Watcher.) Are the snippets going to be meaningful? I’ve added some pages to Google Reader and will revisit them in a week or so to see what kind of snippets I’m getting as results. (Source: ResearchBuzz) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:32:12 +0100 812521 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/lazyfeed-lazy-and-productive/ I admit to being a web wanderer – lazy random browsing in the topic areas that interest me is wonderful,  and it’s amazing what new things you find, what you can enjoy, and what you can learn. My RSS reader is  ‘chockers’ – so I can’t just keep adding possible feeds for reading. Rather belatedly  I’ve also discovered LazyFeed.  Perfect! If you are more into tracking stories on a particular subject like technology, music etc rather than tracking specific blogs then LazyFeed could be the tool you need. You just need to sign up and add your favourite topic…. via MUO. I’ve been using it for a few months now, and just love the flexible way of trawling on my favourite  topics. OK, it’s not going to aggregate and store the same way as my RSS reader (Google + Feedly) but it’s going to keep sifting and providing an online reading experience for me any day that I want to drop by! According to the founder, LazyFeed is like instant messenger for your topics. It’s a tech tool that suits the slow adopters of technology! Got some nice enhancements in January too! Another recommendation came my way via @RadHertz. NewsCred lets you launch an online newspaper in minutes. Cool!  Read more about this from Louis Gray. Here’s an example from UQ Innovation Times.  Nice . Posted in Communication Tools, Social Media, Social Software, Technology and Software Tagged: lazyfeed, news aggregation, RSS (Source: heyjude) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:14:31 +0100 813632 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/01/25/follow-changes-to-any-website-with-google-reader/ Google Reader Blog – “At Google we’re always looking for ways to take advantage of work being done in other parts of the organization. So when a team approached us with a way to follow changes from websites without feeds, we jumped at the opportunity.” H.U.G.E! Thanks Google Reader gods! (Source: Library Stuff) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:43:05 +0100 812076 http://www.rss4lib.com/2010/01/freemyfeed-a-really-poor-cleve.html Have you even wanted to subscribe to an RSS feed in Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Bloglines or Google Reader (or anywhere else, for that matter), but discover that the feed is inconveniently served from behind a login-protected server? We all have, I think. Well, now a free web service allows you to do just that. As convenient as it is, this is a spectacularly poor idea. FreeMyFeed handily takes care of those pesky login problems. You give it your feed URL, your login, and your password. It then gives you an alternate URL at FreeMyFeed that contains your login information in an encoded way. FreeMyFeed then acts as a proxy, grabbing the feed without storing your login credentials on its own server, and passing it along to your reader: So I created a COMPLETELY FAKE login for this blog's feed. The login does not exist, does not work, and is (of course) not a real login to anything: username rss4lib and password temp1234. The FreeMyFeed link that encodes this is: http://freemyfeed.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5yc3M0bGliLmNvbS9pbmRleC54bWw6OnJzczRsaWI6OkxzUGcwWHRrRktDUytJdkFrUTFMN0RvNk5BPT0= Well, it is encrypted, but there's usually a good reason that a feed is behind a login. This takes those feeds and puts them out in the public, where any search engine find them, index them, and expose your organization's secure information. End runs around reasonable security are poor choices. I would recommend that, if your organization has RSS behind a login, that you work with your technical group to block FreeMyFeed from accessing your site. To their credit, there is a fairly explicit disclaimer of the risks on the FreeMyFeed front page, that includes a warning to be careful and not to share your personalized URL with anyone (other than the feed readers, of course). So if you must use this tool, use it only on your own browser, not on an aggregator to minimize the sharing of an all-access URL to your feed. Don't be tempted. (Source: RSS4Lib) Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:47:45 +0100 810872 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/UKW6X_pbgCc/rss-en-aanwinsten-in-de-catalogus-nog.html In maart bestaat RSS 11 jaar. Mijn informatieleven zou veel minder prettig zijn geweest als Netscape het nooit zou hebben uitgevonden. Voor de mensen die niet weten wat RSS is legt Gerard Bierens het nog een keertje uit in het artikel Zoeken, vinden, vastleggen: Anno 2009 zou de meerwaarde van RSS voor het informatiezoekproces eigenlijk zo evident moeten zijn, geen enkele informatiespecialist kan dat nog ontkennen. Toch blijken er in de praktijk erg weinig informatiewerkers te zijn die deze technologie in hun dagelijks werk geïntegreerd hebben. Voor onderzoekers en wetenschappers is RSS vaak zelfs een geheel onbekend fenomeen, simpelweg omdat het kleine oranje icoontje vrijwel nooit op hun netvlies verschijnt. De voordelen van RSS in een notendop: RSS maakt informatie vinden simpel. Wie zich via RSS abonneert op relevante bronnen, krijgt vanaf dat moment automatisch de meest recente informatie binnen. Zoals email vanzelf binnenkomt in MS Outlook, verschijnen RSS-berichten ook vanzelf in de RSS lezer. Zo is het niet langer nodig om iedere dag opnieuw naar dezelfde websites te surfen, alleen maar om te zien of er wellicht nieuwe informatie gepubliceerd is. Eenmalig (en anoniem) abonneren op de RSS-feed van een site is voldoende om vanaf dan de nieuwste berichten terug te vinden in de persoonlijke RSS-lezer. Helaas heeft Gerard gelijk, met zijn opmerking dat RSS nog lang niet in het dagelijks werk van alle informatiewerkers is geïntegreerd. Een voorbeeld? Ik wacht al een paar jaar op RSS voor de aanwinsten van de Zeeuwse Bibliotheek. Er is wel al een paar jaar een aanwinstenpagina, maar daar wil je niet dagelijks heen surfen. Dat kost gewoon te veel tijd. Toen de Aquabrowser vorig jaar in gebruik werd genomen ging ik meteen op zoek naar de RSS-functionaliteit, die tot mijn grote tevredenheid aanwezig bleek te zijn. ... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:00 +0100 806214 http://www.rss4lib.com/2010/01/rss_readers_not_dead_yet.html ReadWriteWeb says, "5 Reasons Why RSS Readers Still Rock." To summarize the post, here are the five reasons RSS readers are still relevant, according to RWW: Control over Information Flow Evolving User Interfaces Tracking Twitter Mobile News Categorized News This post is in response to an earlier RWW post, "RSS Reader Market in Disarray, Continues to Decline," which engendered a lively discussion in the comments. Dave Winer, a pioneer of RSS, noted in the comments to the more recent post that RSS readers get one thing fundamentally wrong: they treat feeds like email by telling you how many unread messages you have and encouraging you to read each one. (I'm one of those weirdos who cannot stand having messages, especially unread ones, hanging around in my inbox. Having a growing tally of unread RSS items pushes me right over the edge and is the main reason I stopped consuming my feeds in my mail application.) A number of automated tools offer filters for RSS feeds (many have been reviewed or discussed here). Most of them rely on explicit, user-defined keywords. Others, like Twitter, rely on one's peers to identify the interesting stuff. However, I have yet to find a tool that offers the best of keyword filtering (letting through articles on topics that are of likely interest) while still surprising and delighting me with nearly, but not quite, on-topic posts. That's an incredibly delicate, arbitrary, and undefinable balance to strike. (Source: RSS4Lib) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:54:55 +0100 806376 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/ktvrbB1kG-g/ Feedly, una aplicación  que organiza tus enlaces favoritos en una especie de portal estilo revista, lanzó recientemente un nuevo servicio que han llamado “embeddable mixes”. Mediante el mismo es posible crear una página mezclando una serie de feeds e insertar la misma en una página web, blog o en la red de Ning. Para probar esta función añadí algunos de los blogs que sigo a una nueva categoría en Feedly. Al terminar se te ofrece un código con el url de la mezcla. Para los blogs de WordPress es necesario utilizar el plugin de Embed Frame para insertar la página. El resultado del proceso lo puedes ver en esta página del blog: Me encanta el diseño tipo revista de la página y además el hecho de que le ofrece a los visitantes una manera rápida de acceder artículos que están relacionados a las temáticas del blog. Feedly ofrece alternativas que son de pago pero me parece que el servicio gratuito puede llenar las necesidades de muchos blogueros. Prometen también ir desarrollando el servicio para hacerlo más configurable y poderoso. Actualizado: Utilizado el feed del planeta de edublogs de Puerto Rico he creado una página que recoge las noticias más recientes de este agregador. Etiquetas: RSS, RSS, web 2.0, WordPress Entradas relacionadas Descubriendo el poder del RSS mediante Google Reader (3) Alternativas para traducir feed al español (2) RSS: El lado obscuro de la web 2.0 (9) Lista de recursos sobre el RSS (0) Celebrando el día del RSS (2) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:29:04 +0100 805527 http://www.teleread.org/2010/01/01/reminder-try-new-teleread-rss-reader-for-iphone-ipod-touch/ Earlier item here. Thanks to Phil Bosua at LOL Software!. Technorati Tags: RSS,RSS readers Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:54:40 +0100 804994 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/5ll11JthMmo/ Earlier item here. Thanks to Phil Bosua at LOL Software!. Technorati Tags: RSS,RSS readers Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:54:40 +0100 804687 http://www.rss4lib.com/2009/12/rss_to_twitter_tools.html Twitter makes it easy for you to post updates to your followers, or the world at large. It's well suited for quick updates, but less for "bloggy" content. How do you get your blog into Twitter without any particular effort? There are a variety of tools to help you do this. Here's a quick overview of some of these tools. Use one I don't mention? Let me know in the comments -- I'll update the post as needed. All of these tools post on your behalf, which means that they use your Twitter account login and password behind the scenes. You provide the tool with your Twitter account login and password. You may wish to set up a separate Twitter account just for your blog if you're concerned about sharing your Twitter login with a 3rd party. FeedNest FeedNest. This tool asks you for a bit more information about your feed than do others, so that users can search FeedNest and find your blog's content. It asks you to describe your blog's content and give the name of the site. RSS Twitter RSS Twitter. A simple interface -- your Twitter account and your blog's RSS feed. TwitterFeed TwitterFeed. I've used this tool for this blog in the past. It offers some statistics tracking for how your posts are read (by redirecting the links from Twitter tweets through its own server). Twitter Tools Twitter Tools (WordPress plugin). If you publish your blog with WordPress, there's a plugin that will automatically send a tweet to Twitter when you publish your blog post. Missing your Favorite? Leave a comment and let me know which tool you use. (Source: RSS4Lib) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:18:25 +0100 804603 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/Msc_OH5HXx4/ My brother, Andrew, a Web developer, is a very clever guy and a fan of woot.com. Recently, he bought a digital picture frame from Woot that can be fed photos via RSS- as a gift to my parents. The clever bit is where each of my siblings created a Flickr or Photobucket account in which to post photos of grandchildren. The feeds from each of these accounts was combined in Yahoo Pipes so that, once the frame is set up on my folks’ WiFi network, any new photos posted appear in their digital photo frame. What a great way for a geographically dispersed family to keep grandparents updated. My mom called to tell me how much she liked it, and I made a point of noting it was Andrew’s clever idea. All I did was mash the feed together in Yahoo Pipes. I love technology when it is used intelligently. _______________ Feed-only Footer: Twitter and similar tools have no innate value. The value is in the network you use the tool to connect with. (Source: davidrothman.net) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:28:38 +0100 803549 http://www.blogpocket.com/2009/12/22/version-del-blog-para-moviles-utilizando-google-reader/ Una opción, si quieres tener una versión de tu blog adaptada para teléfonos móviles, es instalar un plugin como iWPhone. Lo que hacen ese tipo de plugins es detectar si el acceso al blog proviene de un smartphone y, en ese caso, redirigir a un theme especial. Sin embargo, la solución propuesta en Daily Seo Blog me gusta mucho más. Es más simple, no implica instalar ningún theme extra y conecta directamente con mi lector de feeds preferido (Google Reader). Para llevarla a cabo, sigue los siguientes pasos: 1. Descarga el script php para detectar el navegador móvil. 2. Sube el script mobile_device_detect.php a la carpeta principal de tu theme activo. 3. En el archivo functions.php del theme activo incluye al principio la siguiente línea: require_once(’mobile_device_detect.php’); mobile_device_detect(true,true,true,true,true,true,”http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Blogpocket”); Sustituyendo “Blogpocket” por el nombre de tu feed. He probado muchos sistemas para mostrar una versión especial para móviles pero esta tiene las siguientes ventajas: Tus usuarios pueden suscribirse a través de Google Reader Los anuncios de AdSense (si es que los tienes en el feed) no se pierden (algunos themes lo hacen) Todo lo que tienes en el feed RSS aparece en la versión móvil Tienes un plugin menos También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:48:42 +0100 803599 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/YIBUe47Szms/nieuws-op-je-ereader-met-calibre.html Een volledig boek of tijdschrift heb ik nog niet gelezen op de Sony Reader (ik wil eerst, heel dwangmatig, de stapel gedrukte exemplaren wegwerken) maar ik ben wel begonnen met het verkennen van de software. De software die werd meegeleverd is ruk. Zondag maakte Bram Donkers me nog blij met een tweet waarin ik las dat er een update van de software beschikbaar was, maar ik ontdekte al snel dat ook die versie veel problemen heeft met het synchroniseren van meerdere bestanden. Een indirect gevolg daarvan is dat ik muziek die ik op de reader had gezet opnieuw kwijt ben. Dat soort ellende ben ik snel beu. Ik richt mij voorlopig dus op Calibre. Calibre kan weliswaar niet goed uit de voeten met audio maar werkt uitstekend voor het beheer van ebookbestanden. Gisteren zag ik dat je met het programma ook de rss-feeds van nieuwsbronnen kunt downloaden. Er zijn zo'n 15 Nederlandstalige bronnen beschikbaar, waaronder Trouw, Volkskrant, NRC Next en Tweakers. Het downloaden en overzetten naar de reader bleek een fluitje van een cent. Behalve nieuwsbronnen kun je ook je persoonlijke feeds downloaden. Ik had daarvoor wel even de faq en een posting van Pierre nodig (waarin ZB Digitaal nota bene als voorbeeld fungeert) maar toen lukte het inderdaad om een verzameling blogposts binnen te halen. Een tip van Fred kan ik later weer benutten voor de nodige ordening. Het lezen van feeds op deze wijze vind ik zo prettig dat het me wel iets lijkt om verder mee te experimenteren. Ik heb alleen geen zin om al de feeds die ik volg handmatig aan Calibre toe te voegen. Nu is het zo dat je al je feeds uit Netvibes in een keer kunt exporteren als zogenaamd OPML-bestand (die functie heb ik van het weekend helaas weer moeten gebruiken omdat Netvibes erg onbetrouwbaar is momenteel) en elders kunt importeren. Binnen Calibre kan ik die optie echter niet vinden. Het is wel eens aangekaart door een gebruiker, maar dat is het volgens mij ook wel. ... Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:22:00 +0100 802635 http://www.blogpocket.com/2009/12/16/pubsubhubbub-el-siguiente-paso/ Al principio, uno tenía que leer blogs accediendo a la URL. No eramos muchos pero, si leías un puñado, era bastante tedioso consultar uno por uno para ver si se habían actualizado. La sindicación (o redifusión) resolvió el problema. Utilizando la más trivial de las técnicas, un fichero plano basado en etiquetas (archivos XML), se consiguió un revolucionario método de publicación y lectura, adoptado no solo por blogs sino por todo tipo de webs. Con la estandarización de los archivos de sindicación (feeds) -en sus diferentes formatos (RSS, ATOM)- y la popularización de las aplicaciones de agregación (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.), tanto de escritorio como online, pudimos gestionar el enorme caudal de información que se genera en la Blogosfera. La sindicación, ese simple invento (la sangre de la blogosfera, según David de Ugarte) es la más importante contribución de la revolución de los blogs a Internet. Un invento que facilita la lectura de sitios web, potencia el contenido y no el aspecto, ayuda a distribuir la información y la interacción entre plataformas, etc. En la actualidad, un nuevo protocolo (denominado PubSubHubbub) provee una nueva dimensión a la sindicación. Se trata de poder ofrecer actualizaciones de los contenidos en tiempo real. Es decir, poder leer, con el programa de agregación de feeds, el post en el momento en el que se publica en la fuente original. Hay sistemas de publicación que ya trabajan con PubSubHubbub, como Posterous y Tumblr que lo acaba de implementar, y que utiliza el servicio Superfeedr. También lo utilizan ya Google Reader, Google Alerts, FriendFeed, etc. Y WordPress tiene un plugin para que tus lectores puedan conocer al instante cuando actualizas tu blog: Plugin PubSubHubbub. Los agregadores de feeds, compatibles con el protocolo PubSubHubbub, son el futuro. Tiempo real junto con funciones “inteligentes”, quizás al estilo de Fever. ... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:32:25 +0100 801992 http://www.rss4lib.com/2009/12/google_chrome_beta_for_mac_and.html Another version of Google Chrome (version 4.0), on a new platform (now for Mac OS 10.5 and up) and the same old news about RSS: support isn't there in the browser. Both RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds display inline in the browser as a huge jumble of text. (Get Chrome for Mac.) (Click image for full size version) I've railed about the lack of RSS support for either rational inline display or for live bookmarks since the earliest versions of Chrome here and here. Otherwise, a quick test of the new Chrome beta for Mac shows that it's fast and efficient, as I've come to expect from Chrome's Windows betas. I'm not sure I'll trade over from either Safari or Firefox, even when Chrome does get RSS support, but Chrome is coming along. (Source: RSS4Lib) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:34:44 +0100 799386 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/BBdYFzRu6ck/lang-leve-pubsubhubbub.html "Lang leve pubsubhubbub!" "Wat zegt u?" "Ik zeg: Lang leve pubsubhubbub!" Er zijn van die dingen waar je blij mee bent zonder dat je de techniek erachter begrijpt of wilt begrijpen. Pubsubhubbub is zo'n ding. Pubsubhubbub is een open protocol dat RSS-feeds stukken sneller maakt. In juli werd dit protocol al gepresenteerd maar het heeft een paar maanden geduurd voordat wij, als rss-consumenten, daar iets van merken. Hoe merken we dat dan? Feeds komen veel sneller binnen in Netvibes (het nieuwe Wasabi) en de Google Reader, en sinds een week merk ik dat de feeds van dit weblog opeens ook vrijwel onmiddelijk zichtbaar worden in Twitter. Twitterfeed maakt inmiddels ook gebruik van pubsubhubbub. En hoewel het me eigenlijk niet interesseert hoe het werkt wil ik de ontwikkelaars van pubsubhubbub toch even bedanken. Het web wordt steeds sneller, mede dankzij jullie! @ NB: Ik las vanavond dat Google ook is begonnen met 'het uitrollen van realtime'. Binnen Google Finance. (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:58:00 +0100 797571 http://www.rss4lib.com/2009/12/spectives_a_nice_tool_that_abu.html I found a new tool (via a review at ReadWriteWeb) that offers a visual presentation of changing RSS feeds: Spectives, a "search for visual news." Conceptually, it's quite interesting. Its use of intellectual property is unfortunate. Spectives is focused on visual content. It ignores plain text entries on a blog, highlighting those posts with images. I created a collection called RSS and added this blog's feed to it; Spectives pulled in the most recent posts that included images: Interestingly, Spectives ignores posts with embedded video (at least, the UStream feed embedded in a recent post on this blog). Spectives' front page offers a one-minute tutorial right up front -- probably because the point of the tool is a bit vague, if intriguing -- and then lists popular and featured collections. The "Nature Photography" collection (under featured) offers pictures from five photography feeds; the "Celebrities" collection pulls in feeds from 15 gossip/tabloid sites. While the tool is interesting, its mechanism for getting users to the source content is highly annoying. Each collection (and search) comes with its own RSS feed that includes all the items in the source's feed, not restricting it to images. Clicking to the full text of an item in the RSS feed takes you to the original site, which makes sense. However, Spectives puts a translucent toolbar across the bottom of the page with a link "Back to Spectives" and a link to share the post on Twitter -- with a Spectives URL built in. Here's a sample of my previous post, in its entirety, with a Spectives URL and my Creative Commons license, along with the Spectives toolbar. ... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:03 +0100 797190 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/30/list-googles-official-twitter-feeds/ Not only does Google have MANY blogs* to distribute news and other info about their products and service but they’re quickly catching up with a growing number of Twitter feeds. Now available, is a new list of Google’s official Twitter feeds. As we post this item, more than 80 feeds are available, with manyl being available in languages other than English. blo Direct to Google’s Official List of Twitter Feeds Source: Google * A very useful site is Googland. This site aggregates blog posts from many (but not all) Google blog posts and places them on to a single page. A real time saver. (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:44:00 +0100 796174 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2009/11/herve-fait-son-show.html A consommer sans modération : 4 cours, une douzaine de vidéos thématiques, avec Hervé Le Crosnier aux commandes, sur le thème global de la "culture numérique". Blogosphère, Twitter, Wikipédia, Hypertexte, biens communs, document numérique ... sur toutes ces questions, le point de vue d'Hervé dans cette série de cours est (comme d'habitude) à la fois synthétique, éclairant et moteur. Le cours s'adresse initialement à des étudiants de différents Masters ou Licences Pros ainsi qu'à ceux préparant le Capes de documentation. Mais chacun y trouvera du grain à moudre (y compris - spéciale dédicace - mes chers étudiants de première et deuxième année d'IUT ;-)Merci Hervé donc, et merci le Centre d'enseignement multimédia universitaire (qui a réalisé ces enregistrements). (Source: affordance.info) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 796061 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2822 Libraries, Journalism, and Publishing share some common issues and face many common challenges in the digital age. It seems particularly appropriate that, as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) holds a workshop on the future of journalism, it is using digital tools to reach more people. The FTC will hold workshops in Washington, DC on December 1 and 2, 2009, to explore how the Internet has affected journalism. The event is free and open to the public. The workshop will assemble representatives from print, online, broadcast and cable news organizations, academics, consumer advocates, bloggers, and other new media representatives. How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? You can submit questions using the Twitter tag #ftcnews. Comments can be filed online at https://public.commentworks.com/ftc/newsmediaworkshop. See submitted comments here. A live webcast will be available on the day of the event. Bookmark this page and come back on December 1st and 2nd to link to the webcast. Updates regarding workshops, including an agenda and panelists will be posted on this webpage, or can be accessed via RSS Feed. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:05:26 +0100 795035 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/24/favicons-come-to-google-reader/ Are you a Google Reader user? If so, be on the lookout for favicons on your subscription list. Don’t want to see those very small 16×16 icons? No problem, the blog post points out: We realize that not everyone wants their subscription list to turn into a multi-colored extravaganza, so we’ve made it into a setting that you can access from your subscriptions menu. Not the biggest news in the world but a new feature to add a little color to your Google Reader subscription list and perhaps a way to make feeds easier to distinguish. Source: Google Reader Blog (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:11:46 +0100 794696 http://www.blogpocket.com/2009/11/24/google-reader-y-sus-nuevas-funciones-sociales/ Este post se publicó originalmente, en Weblog Magazine, el 16 de Agosto de 2009. La Red evoluciona a la velocidad del rayo. Del correo electrónico pasamos a la mensajería instantánea. Luego a los blogs y a las redes sociales, casi sin darnos cuenta. Pronto utilizaremos Wave, la próxima vuelta de tuerca, impulsada –claro está- por Google, un sistema que aunará todas las herramientas de comunicación en una y que, a finales de este año, podremos empezar a probar. Pero hay una tecnología que se consolida como base para el desarrollo de todas las nuevas herramientas. Se trata del XML, un formato que, en palabras de David de Ugarte, se configura definitivamente como la sangre digital de la Red, la tecnología básica para compartir e integrar todo tipo de contenidos en el flujo informativo general de la sociedad de la información. Sin RSS o ATOM (las especificaciones en formato XML más utilizadas y conocidas), la expansión de la blogosfera no se hubiese producido o, al menos, no al nivel conocido. Con los feeds y la sindicación, y los programas agregadores de contenidos, podemos estar al tanto de las actualizaciones de los blogs que queremos leer, sin permanecer atentos al momento en que sus autores publican. La información llega a nuestros dispositivos sin que nosotros vayamos a buscarla. Y ese concepto, se hace fuerte a caballo de los nuevo vientos que soplan en la red. Los agregadores se hacen, cada vez, más sociales. Ese es el caso de Google Reader, el lector de feeds del todopoderoso buscador, que la semana pasada implementaba nuevas funciones de carácter social. Una estrategia que comparte en toda su gama de productos: también lo hacía en iGoogle, el escritorio de inicio, añadiendo gadgets para compartir vídeos de YouTube y listas de tareaas pendientes, y jugar al Scrabble, entre otros. Google Reader desbancó a Bloglines, una aplicación que gozó de los favores de los internautas. ... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:33:05 +0100 795617 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/0IfsfxEF8Hc/ Over the last couple of weeks, it seems as if the Goog has been doing a bit of reconciliation on the old analytics front, in particular the ability to track traffic driven back to your website from links contained within a feed published from that site using Feedburner… The first thing I’d noticed as being different was the appearance Google Analytics tracking codes on Feedburner powered posts that I was reading in Google Reader – opening such a post in a new window seems to display it with a set full blown set of GA tracking attributes. So for example, opening a post from the Feedburnered OUsful.Info feed results in a URI like this: http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/under-the-radar/? utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed &utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ouseful+%28OUseful+Info%29&utm_content=Google+Reader …and I’m pretty sure I didn’t put those tracking codes in there explicitly… In “Campaign” Tracking With Google Analytics, I started sketching out how it might be possible to use Google Analytics campaign tracking codes to to track the spread of referrer links to documents or document fragments hosted on WriteToReply or JISCPress, so let’s see how the Feedburner annoations are structured: utm_source=feedburner (that is, the originator of the feed); utm_medium=feed (that is, the means by which the content was transported/syndicated); utm_campaign=Feed: ouseful (OUseful Info) (that is, the name of the Feedburner feed (I think: the feed URL is http://feedburner.com/ouseful), followed by the feed title (OUseful Info); utm_content=Google Reader (that is, the place where I viewed the link). Compare this with the suggestion I made for annotating WriteToReply links: utm_source=twitter. ... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:15:30 +0100 795517 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2009/11/typologie-des-superflux.html Monde du flux ou du superflu(x) ? Perdu (mais pas complètement) entre mon agrégateur RSS, les innombrables signalements qui circulent sur mon compte Twitter, l'archive des signets delicious ... Besoin de clarification dans un monde ou tout est "flux" pour éviter qu'à terme tout ne nous semble "superflu(x)". Les médias de flux : TV, Internet. Broadband. Modèle connu. Les "nouveaux" médias de flux, ceux du micro et du méso-net : comment s'y retrouver ? Des flux et des médias. Dans l'immédiat, des im-médias.  Côté flux (liste naturellement non-exhaustive). Besoin de distinguer entre : des flux "identitaires" : ce que je dis de moi des flux "profilaires" : ce que les autres disent de moi, et/ou ce qu'il est permis - pour un individu ou pour un moteur ou un système de recommandation - d'inférer à partir de ce que je fais ou de ce que je dis de/sur moi. des flux "grégaires" : ceux que "je" sélectionne en fonction de leur intérêt. Ces flux peuvent eux-mêmes être des flux identitiaires, profilaires, etc ... des flux "prioritaires" : ceux que "les autres" jugent incontournables sur un sujet, un "objet", une thématique. des flux "aléatoires" : qui incarnent "l'effet rebond", la part de plus en plus important qu'occupe la sérendipité dans nos processus de recherche d'information et plus globalement d'interaction en ligne. Côté médias (liste tout aussi peu exhaustive que la précédente) des médias d'agrégation. Dialectique de la digue et du tamis. ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 794181 http://www.outilsfroids.net/news/comment-mettre-en-place-une-veille-sur-l-e-reputation-de-votre-entreprise-article-payant-pour-abondance OutilsRss RessourcesVeilleVous trouverez dans le numéro de La lettre Recherche & Référencement de novembre le dernier article d'une série de trois que j'ai consacré à la veille e-réputation.Il s'agit d'un série orientée méthodologie qui brasse moteurs de recherche, alertes, Yahoo! Pipes et même Google Spreadsheets pour générer des tableaux de bord dynamiques.Vous les trouverez donc dans les lettres de septembre, octobre et novembre.J'en profite pour vous donner le sommaire de la dernière lettre : Le Web-scraping appliqué au SEO de Jean-Yves Anderruthy Compatibilité W3C et référencement : quel impact ? (Source: Outils Froids) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:43:51 +0100 792286 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/wMHDy4Nx0c4/de-integratie-van-feedburner-in-google.html Het heeft even geduurd, maar Google heeft Analytics eindelijk gekoppeld aan Feedburner. Het ene programma biedt je inzicht in het klikgedrag van de bezoekers van je websites, het andere in het klikgedrag van de abonnees op je RSS-feeds. Vandaag viel het me op dat het klikken vanuit je feedreader, op links van websites die werken met Feedburner, opeens hele lange URL's genereert. Waar je voorheen naar bijvoorbeeld http://www.zbdigitaal.nl/2009/11/de-kick-van-anoniem-bloggen.html werd geleid is dat nu http://www.zbdigitaal.nl/2009/11/de-kick-van-anoniem-bloggen.html?htm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/kkJF+(ZB+Digitaal)&utm_content=Netvibes Dat scheelt al gauw een paar centimeter. Na het lezen van een paar tips op RWW ontdekte ik hoe ik de feedstatistieken, sinds afgelopen donderdag, binnen Analytics in beeld kan krijgen. Het vreemde is echter dat die statistieken niet eens in de buurt komen van de gegevens die Feedburner zelf toont. Waar dat aan ligt is me nog niet duidelijk geworden. Wat ik me ook afvraag: welke invloed op de statistieken heeft het gebruik van die lange URL's elders? In Twitter of Blogger gebruik ik namelijk vaak de URL zoals ik die krijg voorgeschoteld nadat ik er op heb geklikt in Netvibes. Soms gebruik ik dan nog een URL-shortener als Bit.ly, maar in het handmatig afbreken van URL's heb ik meestal geen trek. Worden die URL's dan ook meegeteld door Analytics, of bevatten ze een code die dat onmogelijk maakt? Het zijn niet zulke belangrijke vragen, al helemaal niet voor mensen die niet werken met Feedburner maar toch: het is fijn om te begrijpen hoe dingen werken. Soms dan toch. @ Afbeelding: Banksy (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:11:00 +0100 791754 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2009/11/13/library-news-notes-111309/ Rowland Institute at Harvard Library News & Notes November 13, 2009 “A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere” – Groucho Marx (Source: Cassandra Eckhof) Internet Sites of the Week Books/eBooks Hate reading text online? There IS a better way… How to Purchase Books Online for Less (Source: hrouda) Kindle readers beware – big Amazon is watching you read 1984 (Source: Liz Bryson) Publishers and Booksellers Rally to Support eBooks and eReaders (Source: Peter Scott) Push-Button Books The Second Generation of e-Book Readers is on the Way (Source: Library Web) Computers and Internet The Age of the Informavore (Source: Liz Bryson) Clicker launches for all–watch it Online video and TV directory (Source: raduboncea) Copyright overreach takes a world tour (Source: lapsedluddite) See also: A Call for Copyright Rebellion Google Dashboard: Its unintended uses (and abuses) Google: Free Wifi at Logan, other airports Google Wave: Better than Twitter for Conference Chatter? (Sources: Library Web; Ellyssa Kroski) See also: Uncovering the meaning of Google Wave for publishers (Source: TheOccasional) A glut of Google can give you a virtual fever Harvard’s Web Ecology Project Part 1 and Part 2 (Source: BoraZ) How to Read 622 RSS Feeds It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet That Knows What Is Said–And Meant See also: The Rapid Evolution of Search (Source: asu132 Maggwire “Experience magazines online” (Source: Bernie Sloan) Marissa Mayer: The Visionary (Source: NYT Technology Journalists) Open and Save DOCX Files Without an Upgrade QOTD: protocol-based time travel for the web Rev The Engines: Bing Video Pulls In Hulu And YouTube U.S. ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:10:38 +0100 791795 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/FBTiQQo2KNI/ Der dbv hat seine Webseite runderneuern lassen, endlich dezentere Farben als das monotone Tiefblau! Schön aufgeräumt sieht es aus und auf jeder Seite prangt der RSS Button im URL-Eingabeschacht des Browsers. Was, kann man hier die Aktualisierungen der jeweils angezeigten Seite abonnieren?! Aber nein, das entpuppt sich als Mogelpackung: Man kann lediglich von jeder Seite aus per RSS die Pressemeldungen abonnieren. (Source: netbib weblog) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:02:22 +0100 792152 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/FBTiQQo2KNI/ Der dbv hat seine Webseite runderneuern lassen, endlich dezentere Farben als das monotone Tiefblau! Schön aufgeräumt sieht es aus und auf jeder Seite prangt der RSS Button im URL-Eingabeschacht des Browsers. Was, kann man hier die Aktualisierungen der jeweils angezeigten Seite abonnieren?! Aber nein, das entpuppt sich als Mogelpackung: Man kann lediglich von jeder Seite aus per RSS die Pressemeldungen abonnieren. (Source: netbib weblog) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:02:22 +0100 791370 http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/11/09/legalpubs-for-greener-law/ Stem Legal – “The only way the premise works of course, is for Law Librarians to be using RSS for new product awareness. So the question becomes: Are we there yet?” (Source: Library Stuff) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:25:33 +0100 790115 http://www.rss4lib.com/2009/10/internet_librarian_thoughts.html I attended my first Internet Librarian conference this past week in beautiful Monterey, California. While my blog posts were infrequent, I soaked up a lot of good information from the presenters. Wednesday morning's session with a panel of three 'born digital' students was fascinating. Why I found it easier to grok this generation's approach to technology from hearing it from their mouths, rather than reading Pew Internet reports or the work of danah boyd, I'm not sure. I was pleased to hear the members of this panel state how they understood the differences between 'any old online resource' [my phrasing] and the 'good stuff' [again, my words] libraries provide. I was entertained and a bit amazed at what I understood to be their attitude about technological innovation: that the speed of evolution in how we communicate and interact with the world around us is normal and unending. It makes me feel older than my years to hear eloquent and thoughtful high school students hold forth on the normalcy of technologies that I find, frankly, amazingly innovative and cool. I was struck by one of the participants' statements that "twitter is dead"; amended by the youth librarian who helped convene the panel, who added "twitter was never alive." The fact that this quote was repeated many times in the following minutes and hours on Twitter struck me as entertainingly ironic Mobile devices and mobile computing were a focus of the conference as well. It seems that there is tremendous energy in libraries toward making services and functions available to the handheld devices. In not too many years, mobile devices will be the de facto standard of internet access, the one everyone has -- not a computer. (This will be especially true in the developing world, which will bypass landline networking much as large swaths of the world have bypassed landline telephony. ... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:48:36 +0100 788711 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/28/custom-feeds-a-new-prototype-from-the-new-york-times-with-human-generated-metadata-no-kidding/ It appears that we have another interesting/useful and yes, cool prototype from the NY Times. We’ve blogged about Article Skimmer, an innovative, useful, and cool way to browse the NY Times several times since it first launched in February, 2009 and now we have a new service to try. Earlier this month “Custom Times Feeds” went live via the First Look blog on NYTimes.com. It’s a free service. Access Custom Times Feeds From the Blog Post by Tom Jackson: Our new custom RSS tool is intended for all Times readers — not just developers. It provides a simple way to query the Times Article Search API and a standard way to consume the results. Jackson goes on to provide detailed instructions (read them!) on how to get the most out of “Custom Times Feeds” tool. Here are a few highlights: To use it [Custom Times Feeds], simply start typing something into the text field at the top. As you type, the application will try to match your words to our normalized list of terms. You can then either add one or more of the normalized terms to your feed (which will result in more targeted results) or add your original search phrase. (To add a term, click the arrow next to it to move it to the list of Your Feed’s Terms. To remove a term from your list, click the X next to it.) [Our emphasis] Alternatively, you can paste the URL of an NYTimes.com article into the field at the top. You’ll then see a list of the terms our indexers used to describe that article, so that you can create a feed of similar articles. Once you add a term to your feed, you’ll see a preview of the results, along with a message indicating the feed’s “strength.” The feed strength is determined by the number of articles published about your topic(s) within the past 30 days. You can continue to add terms and refine your feed until you’re happy with it. ... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:41:29 +0100 786291 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wisblawg-FromTheUwLawLibrary/~3/FJVmrKDsGDc/new_ftc_guidelines_to_affect_b.html Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 U.S.C. 45). For the first time, the guidance covers blogs and other social media platforms: The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service. The guidelines offer several illustrations of endorsements that do and don't fall under the Act. This one specifically speaks to bloggers. A consumer who regularly purchases a particular brand of dog food decides one day to purchase a new, more expensive brand made by the same manufacturer. She writes in her personal blog that the change in diet has made her dog's fur noticeably softer and shinier, and that in her opinion, the new food definitely is worth the extra money. This posting would not be deemed an endorsement under the Guides. Assume that rather than purchase the dog food with her own money, the consumer gets it for free because the store routinely tracks her purchases and its computer has generated a coupon for a free trial bag of this new brand. Again, her posting would not be deemed an endorsement under the Guides. Assume now that the consumer joins a network marketing program under which she periodically receives various products about which she can write reviews if she wants to do so. If she receives a free bag of the new dog food through this program, her positive review would be considered an endorsement under the Guides. ... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:22:52 +0100 787598 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wisblawg-FromTheUwLawLibrary/~3/25RsSw5vSWM/wljs_10_terrific_law_practice.html Jane Pribek at the Wisconsin Law Journal has compiled a list of 10 terrific law practice management blogs. She's grouped them by Up and coming, Big names, and Home-grown talent. I'm honored to be included in the latter group. (Source: WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library) Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:14:00 +0100 785785 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/9xFNvaslHOk/ Hat tip to ReadWriteWeb for letting me know about the New York Times’ recent Custom Feeds tool, available at http://prototype.nytimes.com/customFeeds/. Essentially this tool gives you the ability to create keyword-based RSS feeds for New York Times content, but also enhances that essential idea with a couple of extras. Here’s a snapshot of the site. First thing you do is enter a topic or keyword in which you’re interested. The tool will suggest other terms based on the keyword you initially entered. (As you can see I entered Washington and the NYT had lots of suggestions for that.) Next you choose which keywords you want to add to your custom feed. (You can add several if you like.) When you enter keywords, the tool will evaluate the feed, testing to see how many articles in the past 30 days include your term(s) (or, if it’s a very active term, how many articles in the last one day included your term(s).) This is AWESOME; you’ll know right away if a feed is going to contain too much/too little content without having to run tests. Once you have a term or set of terms you like, enter a title for the feed and click the “Subscribe” button. The NYT will kick out a RSS file that has a pretty good snippets from NYT articles as well as the occasional image. The only thing that even bothered me a little bit about this tool is the fact that you have to enter your own feed titles, which would slow things down if you wanted to create a lot of feeds. Other than that these extras as terrific. Highly recommend this tool. (Source: ResearchBuzz) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:10:34 +0100 786008 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/20/jakob-nielsen-on-the-design-and-usability-of-rss-and-social-networks/ From the Article: Usability guru Jakob Nielsen and his team at the Nielsen Norman Group recently released a research report on the design and usability of social messaging and RSS feeds. In the outline of the findings Nielsen posted on his Web site, he bluntly states, “we have a long way to go to improve the usability of social network messaging and RSS feeds.” He immediately goes on to explain that, with services like Twitter, user confusion often starts with the account name. And from his research, he singles out the U.S. Department of Education, which tweets under the moniker of usedgov, which is easily interpreted as “used gov.” See Also: Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social Networks and RSS (by Jakob Nielsen) Access the Complete Article Source: Nextgov Hat Tip: P.W. (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:45:52 +0100 784056 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/xhPILqE-mHc/ Para muchos el RSS sigue siendo una  tecnología desconocida. Como he indicado en otras ocasiones descubrir el poder del RSS ha representado para mi una tecno-epifanía  muy especial. Por eso es que cada vez que encuentro una forma de explicar su valor trato de incluirla en el blog. Hoy me encuentro con esta presentación que lo explica de manera bien gráfica y sencilla. Y después de ver la presentación puedes descargar la guía que hemos preparado sobre el RSS en donde ofrecemos más detalles sobre sus aplicaciones. A Potted Guide to RSS View more presentations or Upload your own. 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