RSS : RSS for the Real World.

An interesting article on RSS that came over my aggregator via my customized Google News search feed. A few good quotes:

"RSS is the hottest thing in Web communication, and the beauty of it is that it really is simple. Just like that first cell phone."

"There is no such thing as “SPAM RSS.” Your RSS feed is an intravenous link into a user’s news aggregator, and nothing can come between the two."

I'm glad that Heuvel mentions the No Spam issue. I always compare RSS to e-mail in my talks and thats the first difference I discuss. Its the biggest difference (and the most damaging to e-mail).

A few random thoughts about the article. Huevel mentions a few disadvantages with RSS that, in my opinion, in due time, will be quickly overcome. She also mentions that RSS is just text and not images, which is incorrect. Its easy to syndicate images in your RSS Feed. Last, she mentions that companies should allow employees to download aggregators to their desktop. What she fails to mention is that web-based aggregators like Bloglines and Feed-Me are available. No need to download anything.

Oh, and a big Hip Hip Hooray for the Michael Fagan quote at the top.

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Libraries : The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine (Nov. 2003) v. .... The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine (Nov. 2003) v. 9, no. 11 has the article New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information The LEAF Project by Max Kaiser, Hans-Jorg Lieder, Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant.

This article presents an overview of the LEAF project (Linking and Exploring Authority Files)1, which has set out to provide a framework for international, collaborative work in the sector of authority data with respect to authority control.

Other articles include:

• "Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library" by Jeroen Bekaert, Patrick Hochstenbach and Herbert Van de Sompel
• "Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System" by Ronald Jantz
• "The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System" by Eva Muller, Uwe Klosa, Stefan Andersson, and Peter Hansson

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Metadata : Newsfeeds : RSS. The government of Canada is using RSS to deliver information. The have an intro page, links to readers and more info and provide links to government feeds. [Catalogablog]  10:42:42 AM   [Feedback ]