LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

Notify.me

This is a neat looking software that allows you to sorts and sends your RSS feeds by subject in whatever manner you want. You can get the latest Iphone news txted right to your phone. It even alerts you through instant messaging client.

This is a great little service could be very useful if you find that all the rss posts are starting to pile up. This at least allows you to organize in a manner you wish.

I came across this blog about RSS feeds.  I was strangly excited about the RSS icons that resemble glasses of beer.  Creating icons that clearly use the orange RSS look with your site's subject seems to be a great idea.  A little Photoshop and I could make a bookRSS icon.  I thought this was a neet idea.

The legal field is slow to adept to thing as a whole. I mean some lawyers are quick to change with the times, but if you ever read a law school syllabus (you know because its fun to do), you will see 100 year even 200 year old cases. Lawyers do not like to recreate the wheel.
However with mashups a lawyer who is interested in one field, like say special education law. No wait why no something more unique: how about lawsuits that involve chainsaws. Now it might take hours a week looking for cases that involve chainsaws, and forget the hours it would take to read the legal newspaper.

For this week, you get to choose between two different exercise options. The first involves using Pageflakes and the second involves using Yahoo! Pipes. I will warn you that the Yahoo! Pipes exercise is significantly more difficult to accomplish than the Pageflakes activity. If you're looking for a big challenge, that exercise may be just up you're alley. If you don't have a lot of time to fool around with a complicated mashup engine, then Pageflakes would probably be the better choice.

I came across this webpage from The College of New Jersey that talks about how their patrons can subscribe to RSS feeds for their new acquisitions. It’s great! It’s divided up by subject area, so one can subscribe to the feeds for only the topics they are interested in rather than get every item that’s added. Another thing that I really liked about it is the video they included on the page.

I think RSS is a good way to stay on top of current trends, especially for academic librarians.  For example, this site for the American Medical Association provides an RSS feed for their articles.  If I was a medical librarians or supported medical students in an academic library, this tool would be very important.  Combined with some of the filtering software, a librarian could facilitate setting up professor and student feeds so they too can stay informed.  The neet thing about RSS is it allows you to be as specific or broad as you

There are two main reasons I think Libraries should take notice of RSS.  The first is that it is a great way to keep their patrons informed about interesting events.  For example, an RSS subscriber can learn of book club updates  without logging onto the library's site.  The email notification is very user friendly.  Secondly, RSS is a great tool to provide material recomendations.

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When I first installed Drupal for our class, I wanted an RSS feed that would allow me and all of you to follow the comments posted ot our site. For some reason, the Comment RSS module didn't work with our Drupal installation. However, the developer of the module recently came out with a new version and after installing it, I see that it does work! You can subscribe to our comment feed with this url http://sociallibraries.com/libr246-12/crss.

My fascination with RSS really stems from my interest in following the news for pertinent information I care about. That is why when I read about Alerts.com from ReadWriteWeb, I was intrigued. According to blogger, Sarah Perez (I’m starting to like her blogs a lot!), this allows you to configure alerts and have it arrive via SMS, voice, email, IM or your desktop via Adobe Air.