LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness

LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness. I guess this is what we've been waiting for! This is a project by David Rothman and Frankie Dolan.

Productive Strategies: Free Academic Podcasts

Productive Strategies: Free Academic Podcasts is a list of public course lectures available as podcasts (public because they're not restricted to students registered in the courses). Doesn't seem terribly scalable: how far can you go with a list of feeds organized by course title?

RSS Feeds into Images (GIF, JPG, PNG)

Transform your RSS-Feed into an image seems like it could be useful if you're trying to avoid JavaScript in your page (saw this on ResearchBuzz). Not sure how useful this is but it's kind of interesting to follow these tools to see if they catch on--and why. Also not sure about accessibility. Nice that the site talks about respecting copyright: you can't integrate just any old feed out there into your site.

RssFwd: Convert RSS feeds into emails

RssFwd is supposed to work nicely if you're interested in converting RSS feeds into emails. It was mentioned in passing on ResearchBuzz in a post about cyclic RSS feeds (if you can figure out a neat use for that, let me know).

RSSPECT - automatic and free RSS feeds for everyone.

RSSPECT - automatic and free RSS feeds for everyone. Is this the answer we've been looking for. Only 4 free RSS feeds per account.

Justia Blawg Search

Justia Blawg Search is a handy tool for searching law blogs (or blawgs) but unfortunately, as Stephen Cohen points out, you can't create an RSS feed to get notified of future posts relevant to your search. Too bad PubSub seems to have tanked.

RSS and the UN

Check out UN Pulse: RSS feeds from UN bodies if the United Nations interests you: their feeds are nicely rounded up here so you don't have to go hunting around for them. Not sure how the publishers of this list will update it (will they update the post? that doesn't seem ideal), but this is pretty handy.

LISZEN: Search 500 Library Blogs

LISZEN: Search 500 Library Blogs

Should we add this to our online workbook?

5 Reasons Why RSS Feeds are Not Popular | Hiveminds Magazine for web publishers and community builders

5 Reasons Why RSS Feeds are Not Popular, Hiveminds Magazine for web publishers and community builders. Thought some of this was on the mark. It's a little extreme, mind you: even if some feeds "die," there are so many others out there to keep people busy that it hardly seems to be a problem. There is so much information out there that I'm almost relieved when a feed dies or fails...

AcademicBlog

a wiki page listing academic blogs by subject area.

"Oprah-style" explanation of RSS

Nice diagram on this page that demonstrates how RSS is used to keep up!

Microsoft Max (in Beta)

Microsoft released a feed reader/photo sharing tool in one.

RSS tutorial from a Library

A little text-heavy but great content!

Medical Librarianship Blogs

David Rothman created a little Wiki to keep track of all the Medical Librarianship blogs out there. As soon as it's "complete," he's going to post an OPML file for the whole set.

LibVibe

A 5-minute podcast for library news.

Wikipedia updates via RSS

This makes perfect sense, but I don't think I ever used this feature of Wikipedia. Anyone can subscribe to any entry in the world's most famous Wiki and receive updates when content has changed. Think of the possibilities: subscribe to the page of your favourite band and find out when a new album has been released or when a tour date has been added; subscribe to the page on a topic of interest and see what others are saying about it. This could be useful.

Ning - DIY Social Software

This is really interesting. This website lets you create your own social software tool, and hten immediately share it with others, who can then modify it to create a new tool. It's just amazing to see all the inventive purposes to which people can put this to use.

Collectik

A resource for sharing podcasts. Could be interesting for libraries - perhaps a "Best of Healthcare for the week of ______" type of thing.

Blog Templates

Courtesy of Phil Bradley's column in Library + Information Update (June 2006), here are some useful sites for finding blog templates and tips on designing your own.

Blogplates

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Rocketboom's Post on Net Neutrality

The best and most entertaining explanation I've yet to see.