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Posts from October 2005

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25 Oct 2005

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feeds for static pages

Have a look at FeedTier: FeedTier is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing sydincation options. I’ve been wanting to set up feeds for the subject guides at [...]


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22 Oct 2005

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RSS hacks

From Steve Rubel, 10 RSS hacks. Hint: there is a library application lurking in almost all of these! [via j's scratchpad]


web 2.0 forum

If you’re online at all next week, you might want to join in on the Web 2.0 event going on over at TechSoup. From the accouncement: Join CompuMentor’s community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 technologies and illustrate how using new socially oriented [...]


working group blog

In the spirit of “why reinvent the wheel?”, I love it when library working groups publish their research and findings to a blog. Most recent discovery: Federated Search Engines and Link Resolvers, from a working group out of the University of Pretoria [via Web4Lib]. If your institution is investigating federated search engines & link resolvers, [...]


blog usability

When I was researching for the blog design talk I gave at BlogU, I mostly found that I had to adapt general web usability to blogs (easy enough to do), because there wasn’t a whole lot out there on blog usability (surprisingly). So it was nice to come across RSS4Lib’s link to Jakob Nielsen’s Top [...]




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