Saturday, July 31, 2004

Nation's First City-Wide WiFi Network Completed [Slashdot:] 8:45:42 PM      Google It!.

IBM Announces Chip Morphing Technology [Slashdot:] the future is already here 9:15:16 AM      Google It!.

On some OAI service providers. Gerry McKiernan, Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship, a PPT presentation from the WILSWorld Conference 2004 (Madison, Wisconsin, July 27-28, 2004). Abstract: "The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. There are two classes of participants in the OAI-PMH framework: Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata from digital collections or repositories; while Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. In this presentation we will profile several major OAI-PMH Data and Service Providers, and describe and discuss their innovative content, features, and functionalities." [Open Access News] 9:11:31 AM      Google It!.

The Power of Grouping RSS Feeds. I've been using my CDB Bloglines site mainly to run a master copy of my regular RSS feeds (keep my home and work computers in synch). But playing with grouping of feeds, I've found some new tricks to play with. I had just been dumping all feeds into one Bloglines folder, organized alphabetically. I run them on the sidebar of the main entry to CogDogBlog-- yes, "blogrolls" are like, so, 2002, but I have used it myself numerous times to share the URL of a blog I read. And when I visit new blogs, I very much like to scan who they read and it has helped me to uncover new blogs. It was the low tech Friend of a Friend approach. Anyhow, Bloglines provides a JavaScript cut and paste that puts my current RSS list on the blog page. I had noticed James does something similar, but his generated feed has labeled groups, which is what I found Bloglines does for you know for the different folders you create on the BL site. So I made a few general feed categories. But the fun stuff came when trying to use this with my desktop RSS reader... [cogdogblog] 9:09:35 AM      Google It!.