Attempting to claim my content feeds for Bloglines, at least the RSS 2 one. There’s some commented-out code in this post that’s part of the process. The other part is in my main template file. Sadly, the method they use does not appear to work with my WordPress template.
Update for 02007 07 21: Somehow I missed the news that Google purchased Feedburner for $100 million or so. I guess Google wasn’t bothered by the name. Original post, 02004 07 31: Visited Syndic8.com to check on my RSS feed and noticed a new column with some options to subscribe to the feed with various [...]
According to the Yahoo! Pipes Beta site, “Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.” In other words, this is a Web 2.0 search tool for extracting syndicated content and repurposing it using what I’ll call an object-oriented programmatic interface. Here’s a [...]
The United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal government funding agency for many digitization projects, now has a RSS 2.0 feed that incorporates the following content: press releases grant program guidelines publications Project Profiles our Primary Source newsletter The RSS subscription URL is http://www.imls.gov/rss.xml
Roger Smith who crafted and runs the Global Museum site has put together a list of podcasts from museums and art galleries called the Global Museum Podcast Index.
A newbie on WEB4LIB asked about RSS readers and Bill Drew pointed to this review on TechCrunch by Frank Gruber titled “The State of Online Feed Readers“. He reviewed these Web-based RSS and Atom subscribe-and-read services and includes a feature comparison chart: * Attensa Online * Bloglines * FeedLounge * Google Reader * Gritwire * [...]
Downloaded and installed a new version of NewzCrawler, the fabulous, retail desktop RSS/Atom reader and blogging tool I use in conjunction with Bloglines and Firefox for keeping up to date with some of what’s going on in the digital preservation field. Since I can register both blogs and their syndicated feeds in NewzCrawler, I just [...]
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is making available on a trial basis podcasts of Question Period and selected other recorded content. Here’s the RSS podcast feed URL.
From the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse front page: “A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics. ? We are gathering a searchable database of Cease and Desist notices sent to Internet users [...]
This blogzine, XplanaZine, which appears to have started in 2003, is all about e-learning. It’s a fascinating cornucopia of learning technology, learning theory, and learning practice. There isn’t any statement of purpose I could find. The authors-contributors are Vicky Woodward, editor-in-chief, Rob Reynolds, Susan Smith Nash, Kent Graham, and Larry Jenkins. A weekly podcast feed [...]
NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System), “the gateway to Dutch scientific information”, is a database of scientific research and publications produced in Dutch universities and research institutes. The two co-leads in the development of NARCIS are the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific [...]
Interesting search engine in beta mode developed by Chris Pirillo called Gada.be. It’s meant to be used by mobile telecomputing devices and lets you subscribe to the search results through RSS. Source: Nick Bradbury’s Blog, “Gada.be CSS“, 02005 12 21
The Government of British Columbia Web portal now offers a wide selection of RSS feeds, along with information on how to access them. Other Canadian provincial and territorial government sites that offer RSS feeds are Alberta, the Northwest Territories’ Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority Event Calendar, Nova Scotia, and Ontario.
Raincoast Books in Vancouver, BC, Canada, launched its first literary podcast series on November 16, 02005. You can access these MP3 files through iTunes (search for “raincoast”), from a Feedburner RSS feed, or from the Raincoast Books blog.
The Times-Colonist newspaper published an overview of podcasting on Vancouver Island on November 8, 02005 (“Podquake Alert” by Mike Devlin, p. D5). Here are the sites they described in a sidebar, “An Island Podcast Primer”: Island Podcasting: A podcast show about life on Vancouver Island: Exploring culture, natural history and events on the Island by [...]
The RSS feed URL for D-Lib Magazine is http://www.dlib.org/rss/dlib.rss.
Gardner Campbell, “There?s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education” (Adobe Acrobat PDF or podcast read by the author), Educause Review 40, no. 6 (November/December 2005). Source: WEB4LIB list, 02005 10 27
Google Reader (beta) for syndicated content (RSS) feeds, what more need be said. You need to set up a Google Account or have Gmail in order to use it. Half an hour after signing in with my Google Account and I’m still waiting for the Google Reader to load. Speaking of waiting, whatever happened to [...]
The current version (5.1) of Winamp includes a new feaure: SHOUTcast Wire, “the solution for Winamp and Podcast lovers who want a lightning-fast way to discover new feeds, subscribe to favorites, and listen, all without any additional software or websites.”
HawaiiUP, Podcasting in Paradise is a WordPress site devoted to podcasting in the Hawaiian Islands or with a Hawaiian theme. I learned a new term today, podroll, just like blogroll, except it’s links to podcasting sites. Another great podcasting resource is the University of Calgary Wiki entry on Podcasting, through which I found the HawaiiUP [...]
According to a story in The Register by Gavin Clarke (“RSS moving to third release”, 02005 08 18), “The first public draft of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 3 Lite specification was released for review and comment on Thursday. RSS 3 Lite is designed as an “efficient” and “succinct” form of RSS that is meant [...]
Update for 02005 08 01: Thanks to Tim Yang for alerting me through his comment to a revised and collaborative version of his list, Things you can do with RSS, accessible through an open wiki interface. Original post, 02005 05 08: TimYang.com contains an activity list for those who wonder what you can do with [...]
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 Compared at http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared Source: Marcus P. Zillman, Internet Happenings, RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0, Compared (snapshot version on Tim Bray’s site), 02005 07 25
In addition to Talkr.com, which can convert text-only blogs to speech, another option, noted by Gary Price in SearchEngineWatch.com note and Jenny Levine on her blog, is SpeakWire.com, which converts individual RSS feeds to speech. SpeakWire also provides this convenient definition of the differences between podcasting and autocasting: ” ‘Podcasting’ is making audio files (most [...]
Update for 02006 01 27: FeedLounge is live. The hype is, well, just that, hype. It’s not any better than Bloglines. In fact, you have to pay to use it. The cost is $5/month. This money does not get you access to any commercial feeds so far as I can tell. I tried the demo [...]
While looking over the Talkr.com site, I see they recommend the iPodder application that runs under Windows, Macintosh and Linux as the free software for tracking and downloading podcasts. If you’re looking for some free podcast-creation software, give EasyPodcast a try. It runs under Windows and Linux, and comes in English and Spanish versions. Some [...]
“Talkr converts text-only blogs into podcasts”. Is this too cool or what?
The European DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries RSS feed URL.
The RSS 2.0 feed for NewsBreaks on the Information Today Web site is http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/rss.
Installed the new Opera 8 final release and discovered that its support of Atom for syndicated content includes the ability to autolink to Technorati Tags where a post includes tags or keywords. Since I’m using Jerome’s Keywords Plugin for my tags and include my categories, this provides exposure via Technorati to my categories, assuming, of [...]
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