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Posts from September 2005

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26 September 2005 @ 8am

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rss readers for Mac

I’m pretty well wedded to Bloglines as my aggregator of choice, but lately I’ve been feeling like I should be more on top of what’s out there, especially for Mac (I “switched” in April of this year). So, this round-up and review of Mac RSS readers has been particularly useful and timely.


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21 September 2005 @ 9pm

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IM

meebo

I fiddled around with meebo tonight. It’s a web-based multi-client IM tool which allows logins to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Jabber and Google Talk. Currently, we’re using Trillian at my library, which is great, but limited in that you have to be on a machine with the software installed to do an [...]


BlogU 1.0

I was at the very first BlogU yesterday and it was fun and interesting and inspiring, at least for me, hopefully for the participants well. One of the best bits (there were many!) was getting to talk blog (and rss and web and tech and gadgets and…) with some very smart people who I enjoyed [...]


everything to get you started on blogs & rss

That intro to blogs/RSS course I said I’d be teaching? The course description is up & it’s open for registration. FYI, it starts the week of October 31st and it’s a six-week online course, and yes, you can enroll no matter where you are (although it’s a bit cheaper for members of these library [...]


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11 September 2005 @ 8pm

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blogs & usability

I’ve had this one furled since it was published in July (pdf): “”Net rage”: A Study of Blogs and Usability”, by Catalyst Group Design. I just got around to reading it. The methodology is a bit problematic, for example, the study only reviewed reactions to one blog, and the participant pool was way too [...]


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