Educause is offering a free online seminar about narrowcasting:
Narrowcasting 101: Using Blogs, Podcasts, and Videoblogs in Higher Education,
Date: July 21, 2005,
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT. Registration is required. They have
nice pages about podcasting and blogs, too:
Common-place: Blogging in the Early Republic
This is an interesting article by W. Caleb McDaniel, a graduate student in the department of history at The Johns Hopkins University, in this month’s Common Place. McDaniel posits that blogs have their beginnings in the 1750s when innovations in printing gave access to literature to a broader base of people. The burgeoning amount of literature in the form of journals and newspapers began being referenced and/or clipped for scrapbooks and diaries. Innovations in printing also allowed more people to self-publish their own journals, in similar fashion — if with different technologies — to the way that modern-day bloggers work.
Coalition for Networked Information
The Coalition for Networked Information now has an RSS feed. The above link is to a page about RSS and the link. The RSS link for your news reader or RSS-aware browser is http://www.cni.org/rssfeed.xml
Pew Internet & American Life Project: Blogosphere
This is a continuation of the previous post on the Pew Internet report, this one on the state of blogging. I’m surprised by the low rss use only because the bloggers that I know are all agog on rss. Read on…
8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. Still, 62% of internet users do not know what a blog is.
Science now has separate feeds for
Table of contents, current issue,
News Summaries — The week’s news highlights, from Science Magazine,
This Week in Science — Brief summaries of new research papers published in Science.
Editors’ Choice — Highlights of the recent literature.
NetWatch — Best of the Web in science, and more.
Thanks to beSpacific.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Podcasts bring DIY radio to the web
“Podcasting” is the prototype for distributing sound files automatically. It’s pirate radio without breaking the law. It’s the next step in information distribution.
This article gives a good, non-technical overview and background. Today you can listen to mom and pop radio; tomorrow, congressional hearings, city council meetings, universtity lectures….
FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration now has an RSS feed for its Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml
Don’t have an RSS reader yet?
You can see what the headlines look like by
using the free toolbot.
But, really! Get an RSS reader! Or, better yet, use FireFox with
a built in RSS reading (”Live Bookmarks”)!
Thanks to BeSpacific
Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com
Reuters news and television is now available through the Reuters RSS service. News feeds include:
Top News,
Business News,
US News,
International,
Politics,
Entertainment,
Technology,
Science,
Sports,
Health news,
‘Oddly Enough,’
and Life & Leisure.
Television feeds include:
World News,
Business,
Entertainment,
Life!,
and ‘Oddly Enough.’
National Academies’ RSS News Feed
Copy this to your RSS reader:
http://www.nap.edu/rss/na.xml
The National Academies RSS feed provides daily access to news releases, publication announcements and public statements.
The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.
The New Bloglines Web Services by Marc Hedlund
09/28/2004,
O’Reilly Network.
This article is pretty technical, but includes several
important bits of news of interest to everyone who
is interested in blogs, RSS, and Web Services.
Already some of the folks who create news-reader software are on board
and will make their software work with this service, according to the
announcement at Bloglines. This means it will be easier than ever for you to keep up with news at home and office.