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myOnlineLife. Wow - while I was on vacation, I missed the release of myRadio.
That's one giant leap.... If you've installed this tool, can you please let me know how it's working for you? My mind is exploding with the idea of how to set up this type of digital dashboard for each member of our staff at SLS. Of course, masukomi is correct that we need authentication built into aggregators for the next logical steps in this process. Imagine if database vendors RSS-ified their databases so that you could offer authenticated monitoring to your patrons. For example, what if my library subscribes to NewsIllinois (a database available to millions of Illinois residents, thanks to subsidized funding from the Illinois State Library) and I want to monitor it for items about libraries. If I could enter my library card number into my aggregator and the database sent out RSS notifications, summaries of new items could appear in my aggregator automatically. I could click on the link to view the full text because the link would already have the authentication embedded in it. Just think what this type of functionality could provide for lawyers, doctors, journalists, and other specialists. All flowing through the library's resources! [The Shifted Librarian]
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MSNBC Embraces Blogs. Creatures From the Web Lagoon: The Blogs
Wow - portal of regularly updated blogs arranged by subject. I sure hope they brought in some librarians and information architects to help build it. [The Shifted Librarian]
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Another Blog Hiatus. Derek Powazek writes in his personal log that he'll be taking a break from it for a while, to pay attention to his many other irons in the fire. I respect this. Knowing when not to blog is as important as knowing when to. The daily-or-more habit is great but only if it's working for you. Derek is an inspiration to me in many ways. For example, I like how he aggregates multiple weblogs on his home page, so I'm going to try to learn how RSS Monkey works. [Radio Free Blogistan]
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Architecture Matters: The Rebirth of Public Discussion. Ray Ozzie hits the nail on the head, detecting the architecture of the blogosphere and the benefits it confers through decentralizing the content management and enabling people to make the connections: But blogs accomplish public discussion through a far different architectural design pattern. In the Well's terminology, taken to its extreme, you own your own words. If someone on a blog "posts a topic", others can respond, but generally do so in their own blogs, hyperlinked back to the topic's permalink. This goes on and on, back and forth. In essence, it's the same hyperlinking mechanism as the traditional discussion design pattern, except that the topics and responses are spread out all over the Web. And the reason that it "solves" the signal:noise problem is that nobody bothers to link to the "flamers" or "spammers", and thus they remain out of the loop, or form their own loops away from the mainstream discussion. A pure architectural solution to a nagging social issue that crops up online.[Radio Free Blogistan]
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How to Make a Blogroll with Radio's Outliner. Here's a link to the Radio-native way of making a blogroll: "Blogrolls are a collection of links on the home page of a weblog that point to sites that are somehow related to yours. They serve several purposes, they direct readers to the sites that are important to you, and serve as a set of bookmarks for you. They also help build page rank in search engines for sites you wish to bestow page rank on." [Radio Free Blogistan]
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