Nielsen Doesn’t Get 2.0

At least, as far as i can tell. His latest Alertbox article is a good example. The article discusses why one should “write articles, not blog postings.” His summary states: “To demonstrate world-class expertise, avoid quickly written, shallow postings. Instead, invest your time in thorough, value-added content that attracts paying customers.”
Then he goes into his [...]

Testing Squeet

Just testing Squeet… Thanks! One more test.

Yahoo! Mail RSS Reader

This is extremely cool - RSS is now integrated into Yahoo! Mail and Alerts (from TechCrunch).
Think about that for a sec - how many of your users have a Yahoo! email account? And how many of them use web-based email services? And how many of those users might now be willing to learn about the [...]

Easy way to explain RSS

Just saw this post this morning.
I think describing RSS as “automated web surfing” is a pretty good description - what do you think?

More “Things you can do with RSS”

Glenn at Hennepin County Library commented on my post about RSS:
“Timely post! We just added a customizable library events feed this week at http://www.hclib.org/pub/events/. You can subscribe to events at your local library, events by age group, events by type (book sales, storytime, multicultural) or any combination.”
Hennepin County Library’s website is COOL. They do a [...]

15 things you can do with RSS

Update: changing the link to Tim Yang’s wiki about “things you can do with RSS.” There’s now 39 things you can do with RSS, and I’ll bet that list continues to grow. Check it out!
Found this on Tim Yang’s Geek Blog: 15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but [...]

RSS Ads are Starting to Appear

Google has been testing out ads for RSS feeds. Take a peek at this image, taken in my bloglines account. If you go to the actual blog page, you don’t see the ad - it only appears in the RSS feed!
Honestly, I’m not sure what I think about that. On the one hand, some bloggers [...]

Hennepin County has RSS!

Glenn Peterson, Web Administrator at Hennepin County Library, just sent an announcement to web4lib about their RSS feeds.
Take a look - Hennepin has done a great job of not only creating useful subject guides for content (26 of them right now), but they have also designed them well. The visual look (much like the rest [...]

Content Aggregation

Greg at Open Stacks posted a great post about content and podcasting, prompted in part by Michael’s post.
I was chatting with Michael today about a similar topic… and when I read Greg’s post, I thought I’d share some thoughts. Greg supplies some good pointers - here’s the two I want to focus on:
1. If you [...]

University of Alberta’s RSS Feeds

Geoff Harder posted about the Univeristy of Alberta’s RSS feeds, which connect to various new book lists from their library catalog. That’s wonderful, I thought… and then I looked closer, and realized they’re a SIRSI site (we’re also a SIRSI site).
Now I’m excited. Excited enough to pester Geoff to post an explanation of how they [...]

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