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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

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!.

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!.

Utah colleges, universities are embracing future with Web classes - Stephen Speckman, Deseret Morning News. The time is not far off that all college courses will have "some Web aspects" to them. So says Jerry Fullmer, director of information technology for the Utah System of Higher Education. Soothsayer? Nope. In fact, that time is already here for most Ut [Online Learning Update]
11:16:14 AM      Google It!.

OA info sharing reverses power in the pharma industry. Cheryll Barron, Big Pharma snared by net, The Guardian [Open Access News]
11:14:26 AM      Google It!.

A picture named bridge.jpgToday'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!.

Tim Berners-Lee on the semantic web. Mark Frauenfelder interviews Tim Berners-Lee on the semantic web in the October issue of the MIT Technology Review [Open Access News]
11:06:14 AM      Google It!.

Is Your CMS a Small House?.
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Small House
Small House
available on my flickr
Mickey has a new house but it is a bit of a squeeze
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!.

PDA Designed for the Great Outdoors [Slashdot:]
11:03:42 AM      Google It!.

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