Category: Weblogs
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The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources
Mashable has just posted The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources which provides briefly annotated links to tools in the following categories: RSS Readers for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Cross-platform, and Mobile, RSS to email converters, Feed validators, Browser plugins, RSS Managers, Feed mixers, Ping tools, Feed Directories, Tips and Hacks, and Miscellaneous. Impressive! …
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She’s Baaaack – schwagbag
Well it’s been an awfully long time, but Sherri Vokey, with three posts in the past week, really really does seem to be back posting at schwagbag. Yay! Sherri’s a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, and was a prolific and most excellent blogger a couple of years ago, but gave it up about a…
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7 Things You Should Know About RSS
Another in a long line of shorties but goodies, Educause recently released 7 Things You Should Know About RSS. Useful for explaining how RSS is used especially in higher education, I learned about a new-to-me resource maintained by Peterson’s: College and University Feed Directory. It has, amongst the other categories, links for Libraries – General,…
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Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation
Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill are conducting a survey on blogger’s perceptions on digital preservation – specifically of blogs and their content and layout. Took about 12 minutes for me to fill out the survey, and I found some of the questions quite interesting. I think there’s a potential business opportunity here depending on how…
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EBSCO to deliver blog content
Sorry I couldn’t come up with anything more original than David Rothman’s original title, but that pretty much spells it out. What an interesting idea. David posts about a press release in which EBSCO and Newstex announce that EBSCO databases will begin delivering selected blog content alongside standard search results. Sure hope one can easily…
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Research behind the news
The Auraria Library (CU Denver) Research Behind the News weblog was mentioned the other day on Web4Lib; what a great idea! I usually read the paper during breakfast and at least once a week read the AP sanitized version of some breaking research and wonder about the full paper. In fact that’s where I originally…
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How to export citations from Google Scholar
Speaking of remembering to cite your sources, there’s actually some useful content at the Google Librarian Central Blog! Ben Bunnell, Library Partnerships Manager, has a post about how to make sure you see the option to export citations from Google Scholar (not a new feature, but new to me). Also interesting to me is that…
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Survey: Blogs in Academic Libraries
Shelly Drumm (and colleagues) writes: We are exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries. If you have experience with blogs as a means of communicating with your patrons, we would welcome your input in a brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763 The best part is that after completing the survey you can see how the other respondents…
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They blog from the Land Down Under…
The nominees for the 2006 Edublog awards have now been announced; voting closes on Saturday, December 16th, so look quick! (it’s not entirely clear to me, but I think you pop an email to 2006awards@gmail.com with your vote(s)). Of the 5 nominees for Best Library/Librarian Blog, 3 are from Australia, one (bookseller) from Switzerland, and…