With abysmal and humiliating lack of success, I keep trying to piggyback a “native” (site-hosted) RSS feed from one written with great care by Jon Legree of Yorba Linda Public Library.
His feed: http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/liintw92.rss
My adapted feed: http://lii.org/liirss.rdf
We haven’t quite gotten to the point where we have our own parser on lii.org, but I thought I could [...]
Mary Ellen Bates gave a great talk on search at Internet Librarian 2003. She offered many more tips, but these were the ones that stood out for me.
Always use more than one search engine… surprisingly little overlap among search engine indexes, and relevance ranking surfaces different URLs
Use Alta Vista’s world keyboard to insert non [...]
Have something to say about David Brin? I’m introducing him as a speaker at the Sunday, November 16 membership meeting at our annual state conference.
In the spirit of Transparent Society, the book that earned him this speaking engagement, I’m going to Google him and run him through databases and maybe even try to look [...]
(Note: a “con-grunt” is a blog comment about a conference; derived from “ref-grunt,” which is blogging about reference work. Source: Steve Cohen.)
Here are a few juicy tips about blogging and RSS from Internet Librarian 2003, broken down by presenter. Future con-grunts from IL 2003 will cover search, usability, and XML/XSLT.
Liz Lawley:
Over 50% of blogs [...]
And I had a very cool time over dinner at Internet Librarian with Jenny Levine, Steve Cohen, Marylaine Block, Genny Engel, and Aaron the Photoblogger Guy. See–I’m learning how to get down with my bad blogging self!
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Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Library Blog.
At 4:52 p.m. Pacific Time today, November 5 (and Roy Rogers’ birthday), I ceased what has been essentially a two-year writing silence, if you don’t count a few hundred entries in lii.org (and I don’t, not that I don’t have a very cool day [...]
