Thursday, September 11, 2003

The three cross-posts below are all related to blogging, each gives some worthwhile information about using various blogging tools. JH ____ Blogging News: Share Bloglines Subscriptions & Blogger Pro Now Free. As Will Richard mentioned, Bloglines now lets you share your WebLog subscriptions. You can view my subscriptions at http://www.bloglines.com/public/edtechdev or import an OPML list of them into your own Bloglines account. Also, Blogger, the WebLog hosting service, is no longer charging for Blogger Pro features, which include an RSS feed for your WebLog. Update - I guess RSS will not be included in the free version, you still have to pay or else just use RSSify. [Ed Tech Dev] 10:04:55 AM    COMMENT []

Sharing Bloglines Feeds. In case anyone is interested, Bloglines now makes it possible to share your RSS feeds with the public. Now, this is a cool development, for reasons I haven't fully developed yet. I have some fuzzy idea that I could use this to create a "Master" list of all the relevant feeds coming from my school. Then, I could just let people know that if they wanted to get a snapshot of all the news going on at Central, they just need to access that page. Hmmmm...that's a pretty good step. Not all of the feeds might be relevant, but at least they could click the ones that were. Especially useful for committees and such. Imagine the list with all of the links to all of the minutes and relevant stuff in one place!!! Ok...now we're getting somewhere...more, I'm sure, later when I get some rest. I swear, it's like a "This is your brain...this is your brain on RSS" commercial. Too many possibilities. [Weblogg-ed News] 10:03:33 AM    COMMENT []

Personalized RSS Subscriptions Via Bloglines!!!!. I cannot begin to write how absolutely psyched I am right now. Thanks to some help from Mark Fletcher at Bloglines, I've created a hack (yes, me, a hacker) to use Bloglines as a personalized news aggregator allowing people to check boxes from a list of my school's feeds and view them in a Bloglines account. I don't even know if I'm describing it accurately, but you get the idea. Now I can say to parents or administrators or whoever, you want an easy way of keeping track of what's going on around here? Go here, click the info you want to track, hit submit, create your Bloglines account (or login) and start reading. WAY TOO COOL! It takes a little bit of html to update the subscription page, but it's not much more than copy and paste. And considering what I think will do to promote the concept, it's well worth the time. Please check it out and tell me what you think or if you have any problems. RSS at HCHRS...Perfect Together! (For the uninitiated, that's an old NJ promo from the 80s...remember them???) [Weblogg-ed News] 10:02:44 AM    COMMENT []