I won’t be blogging for a few days; I’m taking a writer’s holiday (lots of reading). Walt Crawford recommended an occasional writing sabbatical in his latest Cites and Insights, and it’s a really good idea. Note that I’ve rewritten the RSS tutorial. It now uses Gary Price’s Resource Shelf as the example, though I think […]
Tech support for Bloglines said the ability to reply from Bloglines will come soon enough, but suggested many lists provide e-mail confirmation. That’s true if you’re running more modern list software. PUBLIB is still running on LISTPROC 6, and that’s a bigger problem. (Web4Lib, on the same host, has the same problem.) PUBLIB needs a […]
Oh ho… a problem. I’ve written the Bloglines folks. Ruth Seid of Los Angeles PL captured it in a nutshell: “Okay. I can’t figure out how to subscribe to PUBLIB on bloglines. I know there’s a way to subscribe to an address different from the one you use to send the subscribe command, but then […]
I have a goal that I want to use RSS for anything I don’t reply to. Bloglines has added a terrific new feature called “Manage Email Subscriptions” that brings me closer to this goal by adding the capability to track e-mail discussion lists by RSS, bringing us a giant step closer to taming the e-mail […]
The latest Cites and Insights is a delight, as always, but Walt’s comments about the Public Library of Science rocked my world. After we added a record for PLoS to LII, a reader wrote to complain that our record description, pulled straight from the site, didn’t match the actual content on the site, which to […]
The Department of Education announced an official White House site called “Season of Stories,” in which the White House presents stories and read-alouds, some by senior White House officials. Not only that, continued the press release, but “At the same site, every weeknight at 8:00 p.m., bedtime stories will be read by administration officials.” Secretary […]
I’m puzzled by all the breathless hype, as this product doesn’t sound vastly different from Bloglines, but the new Web-based aggregator, My Feedster, is worth a look. Find it at http://www.feedster.com/myfeedster.php . How long before major browsers integrate aggregators? (And when are we going to find better names for these tools?) Bookmark to:
It’s not quite that bad–I’ve done other things while I prepped my new equipment and upgraded my 2-year-old Dell in order to hand it down to Tom, one of the stringers at LII. Plus, it’s rather meditative work to watch the status bars change color and press Enter now and then. This kind of computer […]
Yesterday’s excursions into the Blogosphere were preempted by an only occasionally harrowing e-mail migration activity in which I brought up Thunderbird 0.4 (couldn’t they have named it something like Gallo, or Bonnie Doon?) and Outlook 2003. The gauntlet is thrown. (Well, not quite; it was all so harrowing that after everything worked, I shut down […]
The DYOL (Disaffected Youth of Librarianship) seem to be unmoved by this, perhaps because they now accept major tech advances as pro forma “what have you done for me lately” developments, but we librarians of a certain age are intrigued by Google Print, which “lets Web surfers call up brief exerpts from books, critic reviews, […]