(SOURCE:"42")-I'm all over this! Next Radio thing to try on my list. Sounds a little like LiveTopics with an RSS file attached!
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I was inspired a decade ago by reading Vannevar Bush's 'As We May Think', written in 1945. Ever since reading that piece I've been fascinated by the idea of sharing 'trails' of information or as Bush put it "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.". So anyway, I've been thinking about RSS and thinking about trails. RSS feeds are certainly not the trails that Bush described but I like the analogy, particularly the emphasis on sharing. I want to be able to create a trail through the web that I can share with you, that you can read in any number of ways, using RSS aggregators or using directly in your weblog, that you can repurpose and share with others. For those who are brave enough to humour me in my wild ramblings I've created a new tool for Radio UserLand that allows you to make and publish your own RSS trails. I call it my trailBlazer tool! It's in alpha right now but you're welcome to give it a whirl. Comments are particularly welcome
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:Scripting News)-'nuff said! Preach it! <QUOTE> Blogs are organized with items appearing in reverse chronological order (the most recent postings appear first). Typically they include links to other Web pages on the Internet. As an application, they look something like a combination of e-mail, Lotus Notes and a free-form discussion group. Sometimes blogs form rings, which connect sites with like topics together, so a reader can see different sides of an issue. Some important technology visionaries are already using blogs. Pioneering veterans such as Dan Bricklan, Mitch Kapor and Ray Ozzie have active sites. Given that these are the inventors of spreadsheets and groupware, that's an impressive list. For certain types of communications, especially those overloaded with e-mail and voice mail, blogs could be heaven-sent. Rather than attaching comments about a topic and 15 documents to one e-mail and then sending it to 35 people who might care, the information could be posted to a blog and appropriate parties could add relevant comments. With a blog collecting all the comments and information about a topic, it could be easier to focus on one topic at a time. It also could be helpful to projects, especially development projects. A developer could attract customers and put in feature changes before an application enters the beta stage. </QUOTE> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

Library Stuff found "three new articles from Search Engine Watch about RSS and weblogs:

1. RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content
2. Making An RSS Feed
3. Loving Each Other More: Search Engines & Blogs"
4. Plus, Steven reports that OCLC Research news now has an RSS Feed.

Scripting News overflowed with news of new RSS feeds today:

1. "Cisco Systems has 12 new RSS feeds. Latest News Releases, Content Networking, Partner, Routing, Security, Software, Standards, Storage Networking, Switching, Voice, Wireless, Features.
2. Apple has four new RSS feeds.
3. Fast Company has an RSS feed too."
4. Even Microsoft has hopped on the bandwagon!

Methinks I see a tipping point approaching....

[The Shifted Librarian]

I'm pretty happy with SlimBrowser so far.  It's got a nice tabbed interface and a zoom feature that is cool for pulling up documents on the projection screen in a meeting.  I was surprised at the number of web browser shells that have been built for IE.  All of the nabobs talking about how "closed" IE is had me fooled; in actuality it looks like there are far more innovative extensions available for IE than for Mozilla (or Phoenix or whatever).

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Joe Bork has some great information on SxS assemblies, and points to Brad Abrams new public blog.  When I look at the list of "bloggers who happen to work at MSFT" I still am amazed that all of these people have blogs.  Within the past year, the number of bloggers who happen to work at MSFT has multiplied dramatically, and the representative quality of these bloggers is fantastic.  These people are forces of nature within MSFT, and collectively span most pieces of the business.  I have ready access to most of these people at work, but I still monitor them all with my news aggregator (RSS Bandit), because I'm finding at least one useful thing per day on their blogs that I never would have found otherwise.  Scanning co-workers public blogs to find information that helps me at work -- how ironic is that?

[Better Living Through Software]