'RSS & blogs' Category
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Bloggers’ favorite books 2005
December 20, 2005Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 Here’s a nice little list of books that bloggers were reading this year just in case you’re in need of last second gifts for the laz staff!
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The Google News of the blog world
October 24, 2005Wired magazine has a good story (Cliff Notes From the Blog World, By Ryan Singel, Wired, October 21, 2005) on a useful new service that tracks blogs and what’s being discussed. Memeorandum “Political Web, page A1″ tech.memorandum “Tech Web, page A1″ The service “aims to be the automated newspaper of the online world” and provides [...]
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ACRL has a blog
October 18, 2005ACRLog ACRLog is the official blog of the Association of College & Research Libraries. ACRLog is a blog that aims to discuss the issues of the day in the field of academic librarianship. It will strive to get you thinking about what you do, why you do it, and how it fits into this enterprise [...]
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How many people read blogs and use RSS?
September 5, 20056% of US Internet users read blogs, 2% use RSS. IT Facts / ZDNet.com Sept. 5, 2005. Ok, here is the caveat to the headline. The study, The State Of Consumer Technology Adoption by Forrester Research, evidently only counts “online consumers.” The summary of the report is available for free but does not reveal much [...]
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Podcasting at University of Florida
September 1, 2005The University of Florida is doing some innovative things with audio and podcasting. The UF News Desk has begun including audio files along with press releases in text (University of Florida News). The news site includes information on general campus news (announcements, appointments, awards) as well as stories about research at the University. All the [...]
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Reference blog and much more at library blogging workshop!
August 29, 2005maps blog at UCSC This UCSC Libraries’ Map Room blog “is used to create a searchable historical record of difficult reference questions. It makes a great training tool for persons learning to work with the map collection. The Blog also provides the reference librarians at UCSC with a better understanding of the kinds of questions [...]
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Public Radio, podcasting, the future of information
August 17, 2005Here is an interesting article: NPR defining new Podcast strategy. NPR has had an agreement with Audible.com, but didn’t renew their contract and will be announcing a new policy “for making NPR content downloadable and portable.” A somewhat related story, The Future Of Public Radio by Doug Kaye, 8/10/05, has some interesting ideas about high [...]
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RSS4Lib
July 31, 2005RSS4Lib: Innovative ways libraries use RSS From the Ginn Library at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University comes this blog on “Innovative ways libraries use RSS.”
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“The C-SPAN of scientific and medical research”
July 28, 2005ResearchChannel ResearchChannel is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by a consortium of leading research universities, institutions and corporate research centers dedicated to creating a widely accessible voice for research through video and Internet channels. In addition to health and medical sciences, computer science and engineering, more than 30% of the content is in arts, [...]
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Princeton podcasts!
July 28, 2005University Channel The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format. Already available: The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement, The Pope and the Future of Religion and Politics, [...]