Archive for the ‘RSS/RSS Aggregators’ Category

RSS to Email Suggestions

Posted by Nicole on June 5th, 2008 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Hi all! I’m looking for recommendations for the best RSS to Email tools out there. I still get people asking me how to get RSS updates via email so I want to offer them good suggestions and I haven’t played with any of these tools.
Comments are open for suggestions.

What happened to Bloglines?

Posted by Nicole on May 19th, 2008 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Why are my folders all wonky?

Is anyone else seeing this on Bloglines Beta?
[update] Looks better now - must have been a glitch [/update]
Technorati Tags: bloglines

RSS for TV Addicts

Posted by Nicole on May 10th, 2008 under Just for Fun, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Well - real TV addicts have DVR or Tivo or some such way to get new episodes, but if you can’t afford those and want to keep up with your new TV shows, mytvrss looks pretty neat!!
Select your favorite shows below, and then click “Create feed” to generate your own personalized RSS feed. We’ll then [...]

My RSS Feed

Posted by Nicole on December 30th, 2007 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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After upgrading to the new release of WordPress I went from 2000 readers to 900 - that means that my plugin that counts those of you not using my FeedBurner feed doesn’t work with the new release (or over 1000 of you got annoyed at me for something I wrote ). So - [...]

Yahoo Pipes - Take 2

Posted by Nicole on December 6th, 2007 under Online Tools & Tips, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I wrote a short while ago about finally understanding how to use Yahoo! Pipes and since then I’ve been playing. I have come up with a pretty complicated looking Pipe that does something so simple - something we’ve wanted for a while.
Just click the image to the left to see the full screenshot - [...]

Yahoo! Pipes

Posted by Nicole on November 16th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators, Web 2.0
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Okay - I have to admit, I had no clue what the heck Yahoo! Pipes were all about. I read about them in the beginning and was lost, but thanks to Mashing Up Multiple Web Feeds Using Yahoo! Pipes, an article By Jody Condit Fagan in the recent issue of Computers in [...]

College & University Feed Directory

Posted by Nicole on October 8th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I can’t personally find a use for this - but it’s so neat I still want to share it with you (who knows you might be looking for just this thing). Peterson’s now has a College & University Feed Directory broken down by some broad categories including Libraries-General and Libraries-New Acquisitions.
[via RSS4Lib]
Technorati Tags: rss

More on Bloglines Beta

Posted by Nicole on August 30th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I didn’t get a chance to do a thorough testing of Bloglines Beta yet, but there is a detailed post over at Read/Write Web that you might be interested in.
I’ll continue to test it out, but for now: Bloglines has me back as a fan!
Technorati Tags: bloglines beta, bloglines

Bloglines Beta

Posted by Nicole on August 27th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Most you know that I’m one of those people who stuck with Bloglines when everyone migrated over to Google Reader. Well, the pay off is here! Bloglines has announced a new Bloglines Beta and it’s slick! I’ve only been playing for a few minutes (I have to get to work!) but I [...]

Penguin RSS

Posted by Nicole on June 23rd, 2007 under Books, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Via RSS Compendium Blog:
Penguin, the UK book publisher, has published a page containing its RSS feeds
This is very neat - mostly because when I lived in England they had a promotion going on. 1 pound classics. Penguin classics all cost £1 (approx $1.55 when I was there). I came home with so [...]

Google Buys Feedburner - it’s official

Posted by Nicole on June 3rd, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators, Search/Search Engines
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Boy - today I just keep finding confirmation of every buy out I’ve talked about in the last month. First it was Ebay and StumbleUpon now it’s Google and Feedburner.
FeedBurner, which has more than 400,000 publishers on its network, will beef up Google’s own AdSense publisher network, particularly among blogs, where FeedBurner is stronger [...]

Google Burner?

Posted by Nicole on May 28th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I just read that Google is considering buying FeedBurner. At first it didn’t really surprise or worry me - but then I read this:
With this deal, Google can integrate both AdWords and, soon, DoubleClick into FeedBurner’s feeds as well as create more sophisticated RSS search tools.
I have just one thing to say - if [...]

Back to Bloglines

Posted by Nicole on May 15th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Well, you can’t say I didn’t give it a real try - after sticking with Google Reader I just couldn’t get over the problems I was having - so I’m back at Bloglines with an updated (shareable) list of feeds.
Basically I liked the reading interface and the fact that I couldn’t accidentally click on a [...]

Thoughts on Google Reader

Posted by Nicole on April 20th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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So today I switched to Google Reader. My husband has been raving about it - and a bunch of librarian buddies were using it at CIL. Here are my first impressions.

I can’t share my subscription list - just individual posts (unless someone tells me otherwise)
I can’t widen the left column to see full titles [...]

Are people writing less?

Posted by Nicole on April 12th, 2007 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Is something up with Bloglines or are people writing less? I usually have hundreds of things to read (thousands if I do my homework like I should) - and yet I’ve been able to keep up lately. Also, all del.icio.us feeds are looking wierd and not very helpful at all. I might have [...]

Track Prices on Amazon with RSS

Posted by Nicole on March 29th, 2007 under Books, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Thanks Sarah for pointing this out to me!!
There’s a tool called RSStalker that lets you track price changes on Amazon by RSS. You can have feeds for your entire wishlist or a specific item.
Also, from the RSStalker site:
Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a 30 day price drop policy. If you bought [...]

For us it was Homework - Today it’s RSS :)

Posted by Nicole on January 28th, 2007 under Just for Fun, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Just had to share this - it’s kinda funny.

via: RSS Compendium & bLaugh

Oh Cool - More Ways to Find RSS Feeds for Journals

Posted by Nicole on December 15th, 2006 under Journals, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Christina quotes an email from Ulrich’s Web:
The new “RSS Available” Advanced Search limiter makes it possible for users to identify the growing number of periodicals that are providing headlines, recent issues or other content via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). An RSS feed provides content via XML files that are then read by an RSS reader [...]

Wanna Keep Up?

Posted by Nicole on December 1st, 2006 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Thanks Steven for pointing me to Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post on keeping up.
RSS feeds make it possible to consume far more information at a faster pace than would otherwise be possible for the human brain. That said, many people experience a new level of information overload once they begin reading feeds. Here’s an overview of how [...]

LibWorm Announced

Posted by Nicole on November 26th, 2006 under Library, RSS/RSS Aggregators, Search/Search Engines
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Yesterday, while I was working on my final projects, news of LibWorm spread throughout the biblioblogosphere. LibWorm is a “Librarianship RSS and Current Awareness Search” by MedWorm's Frankie Dolan and David Rothman.
LibWorm let’s you search for library news across over 1000 RSS feed (including blogs, journal tables of contents and more). I need [...]

Pinging RPC Services

Posted by Nicole on November 7th, 2006 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I just found this list of 56 services you can ping with your new blog posts - I’m not going to ping them all, but I did find a few I didn’t know about.

What’s in your ego feed?

Posted by Nicole on November 7th, 2006 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators, Search/Search Engines
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I’m wondering what everyone searches for and watches in their ego search feed. My search (blended by FeedBlendr) reads:
Blogdigger search for nicole engard, Technorati Search for: http://web2learning.net, Yahoo! Search: “nicole engard” or “nicole c. engard” or “nicole c engard”, Technorati Search for: “what i learned today” AND (nicole OR engard), Technorati Search for: nicole [...]

More on Feed2JS

Posted by Nicole on October 29th, 2006 under Programming Tips, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I am considering using Feed2JS on our intranet (after listening to Meredith & Paul at Internet Librarian) - I’m still going to give it a whirl, but I’ll be more cautious before I use it on any of our sites outside of the firewall after reading this warning from RSS4Lib.
If you run your own copy [...]

Compare RSS Readers

Posted by Nicole on October 29th, 2006 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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If you’re still unsure of what RSS Aggregator to use, you might want to give CNET’s comparison chart & reviews a look. They offer a comparison chart for Bloglines, Rojo, Google Reader, FeedDemon, and Newsgator Inbox 2.6 for Outlook.

The RSS & JavaScript Cookbook

Posted by Nicole on October 28th, 2006 under IL2006, RSS/RSS Aggregators, Web Design
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Meredith Farkas & Paul Pival gave a fun presentation on RSS (something I use tons of) & JS (something I don’t use much of).
Using JS and RSS Paul & Meredith showed us how to create a dynamic subject page for your library site. The problem with traditional subject pages is that they aren’t updated [...]