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Blogs Scoop OCLC on OCLC News. There's been some big OCLC news over the past few days:
Both pieces of news are ripe for discussion, but what I find most
interesting is that OCLC isn't blogging about either of these stories. It's All Good
has given OCLC "voice" for me and made names more concrete in my mind,
but it's not that blog's purvue to highlight such big moves. I find it
interesting that no one else at OCLC feels the need to give more of
their backstory.
Even worse, there's nothing about either story on the Latest OCLC News Releases
page on their site, so the RSS feed of which I was going to bemoan the
lack wouldn't do any good anyway. I guess I'm just surprised that OCLC
hasn't picked up on blogging and RSS in a bigger way. They could be the
500-pound-gorilla-like-Microsoft's-blogs of the library world, which
would go a long way towards customer support, reputation, image, and
flat-out communication. [The Shifted Librarian]
11:34:51 AM Google It!.
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My Yahoo Takes RSS Another Step Towards the Mainstream. Introducing the All-New My Yahoo!
"You still get all your favorite Yahoo! services like Mail, Movies,
Maps, Photos, Stocks and Sports. Now you can mix in cool stuff from
around the Web - Craigslist, BBC, CNet, plus blogs like Boing Boing,
Defamer, Instapundit and thousands more. Unlimited choice - nice
alternative to boredom, isn't it?
Whatever your interests, it's easy to track down what you want and
feed it into your page. Look for specific sites or type in a topic.
Global news. Gadget reviews. Travel logs. Baby blogs. It's all out
there. We've made it easy to find and pull on in.
Found something you like? Great. Preview it, and if you like it,
just click 'Add.' Presto! It's yours! Refreshed and updated whenever
you look. One click, no hassle. Shouldn't life be that simple?"
And on the side of the page:
"My Yahoo! now supports the various flavors of RSS and Atom,
allowing you to add virtually anything to your page. Choose from
thousands of sites that syndicate content."
While I don't think My Yahoo
scales well as an aggregator when you read 250 feeds like I do, I will
definitely be introducing RSS to my neighbors this way (without using
the term RSS). I'll just surreptiously add some sites to their
existing My Yahoo pages and then discuss it in a few weeks. In fact,
this is possibly the only way to pull the Chicago Tribune into an aggregator, although it still doesn't help with my local paper.
Jeremy Zawodny has more on this new development, but I hope you understand why it's becoming more and more important for your library to have an RSS/Atom feed. [The Shifted Librarian]
11:30:46 AM Google It!.
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Today's Morning Coffee Notes explains the open source release
of Frontier. Jeff Sandquist previewed the audio and said he had never
understood what Frontier was before. It's good that this event which is
probably one of the largest releases of open source code ever, may mean
that more people appreciate this interesting and unique piece of
software. Or it may be a time capsule, a message in a bottle, or a
bridge to the future, and that would be fine too. One thing it's not
is an attempt to boil the ocean, or a threat to your favorite scripting
language, Web content system or HTTP server. Just trying to preserve a
life's work of programming, so it doesn't end up lost or forgotten.
Peace brother. [Scripting News]
-- programming tombstones may live forever as open source software to
the benefit of future generations or cultural anthorpologists -- BL
11:12:52 AM Google It!.
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Is Your CMS a Small House?.
Likey Mickey's new dog house, sometimes a course management system that
looks swell at the store ends up being pretty much a tight squeeze to
live in.
He'd rather run around in the yard getting wet in the rain than live in there. [cogdogblog]
11:05:08 AM Google It!.
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© Copyright 2004 Bruce Landon.
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Small House
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