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 […]
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, […]
For the most part, I’m avoiding “gee, what a neat feed” posts, but as a long-time Weather Channel addict, I’m delighted that the National Weather Service is providing regional feeds for weather updates. Bookmark to:
Breathlessly reported on library blogs is a change to Google that SWISH-powered LII has used for years: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html#stemming “Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms. If you search for ‘pet lemur […]
Someone on Web4Lib asked about posting symbols or signage to identify wireless access in libraries. This is a slightly revised version of my reply on the list, sent after several folks referred the original poster to the wireless warchalking symbols popular among the digerati. Essentially, this is basic library marketing 101. If you’re planning to […]