'RSS & blogs' Category

• Blogs, Podcasting, and Narrowcasting from Educause

  July 13, 2005

  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: podcasting blogs

  

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• Blogs and history

  July 13, 2005

  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 [...]

  

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• CNI has RSS

  April 21, 2005

  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

  

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• State of blogging

  January 31, 2005

  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 [...]

  

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• Science magazine now has RSS

  January 14, 2005

  Science Online RSS Feeds 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, [...]

  

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• RSS is not just for text anymore

  January 1, 2005

  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 [...]

  

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• FDA Recalls has RSS feed

  December 6, 2004

  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, [...]

  

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• Reuters offers RSS news feeds

  November 12, 2004

  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.’

  

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• National Academies has RSS feed

  October 29, 2004

  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.

  

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• Lots of Great News for Blog Readers

  October 4, 2004

  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. Bloglines is an online aggregator that provides a wonderful, free service for folks who read blogs. They aggregate blog [...]

  

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