I forgot to mention that I’m at home this week. My library actually closed early last week because of bad weather. Good thing about being at home – feeding the addiction. Bad thing about being at home – no routine means I forget to post. So here’s a last one for the year. Regular posting [...]

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The Media Drop: Newspapers with RSS: A List I’ve compiled what I believe to be a solid list of U.S. newspapers that offer RSS feeds. It is sorted alphabetically, and I’m still noting state designations on some of them. Newspapers are a good place to start when telling someone about syndication. All of the headlines [...]

TechnoBiblio: Intrastructure – yeah, that is what I meant to say Doesn’t any of this make ILS vendors worried? Hey – what’s that on the horizon? The Four Horsemen of the Obsolescence – Open Standards, Modularity, Commodity Hardware, and Frustrated User Base. We can only hope.

LIScareer keeps offering great information and advice for both sides of the hiring process.

The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web NPG’s interests in RSS extend well beyond the production of RSS feeds. A new server-side application that has been developed by NPG is Urchin [35]—an open-source aggregator designed to aggregate and filter RSS feeds and other data sources. I find the filtering [...]

LIScareer News: The Librarian’s Career Guidebook is now available! Are you trying to break into a career in library science or improve your current position? In The Librarian’s Career Guidebook, 63 information professionals from diverse positions, workplaces, and regions discuss a variety of career issues and offer advice to prospective librarians, MLS students, and librarians [...]

The Shifted Librarian: Making the Most of the Blogosphere is the abbreviated version of Jenny’s talk at the Internet Librarian conference. Instead of just throwing up her slides, she’s written it out like an essay so it makes sense. Favorite quote:I think we’re ready for library blogging 2.0. A must-read.

Library Stuff It’s not such a far fetch then for librarians to be embracing weblogs and RSS technology because it is makes our finding, filtering, and presenting of information better and more efficient. Absolutely!

The closed nature of the system has been a concern for some librarians in regards to the new Google Scholar. In The magic that makes Google tick – ZDNet UK Insight, some of the processes that Google goes through when indexing and searching webpages are explained.