RSS Starter Set?
One of the problems I've been wrestling with at work is how to get a good mix of feeds that are particular to our employees' line of work, and then find a way to deliver those subscriptions so I don't have to set up each and every reader in my
All Through the House, Not a Creature Was Aggregating
Well, except me. I've spent some time today working at my new hobby -- blogline subscriber surfing. This is the practice of clicking on the subscriber list in bloglines and checking out what people are subscribed to. Say I was interested in who was also subscribed to The Accidental Hedonist's
A Look Ahead to 2005
John Battelle has published his predictions for 2005, and he's got some great ideas. I have a few things I'd like to add though I wouldn't classify these as predictions so much as wistful longings/scarey inklings. Ahem. My list for 2005: RFID sewn into clothing hits big when it's paired
RSS, Blogs, Wikis & Browser-Based Bookmark Tools :: A Presentation
The following is a presentation I gave three months ago to my department on emerging web technologies. I've made some inquiries, and very few people have looked at these things much less brought them into daily usage. I think it's an interesting hunk of information, but something is obviously lacking.
RSS :: For Serious News Hounds? Or Everyone?
I had an fascinating discussion today with one of the company librarians. We were discusssing why Factiva was so popular here and the barriers to making RSS feeds a standard way of receiving news. Our talk came to an interesting conclusion: People don't want to spend time thinking about the
Year of the Blog? I don’t think so.
It seems everyone has a list of "blogs of the year" on their sites, and every newspaper and (Times) magazine I read is eager to claim this as the year of the blog. People, you are behind the times! I say it was the year of RSS. RSS completely changed
