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Posts from March 2006

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30 March 2006 @ 8am

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rss

rss auto-discovery

Are Firefox and Safari “finding” your library’s RSS feed?* I realized the other day that neither browser was picking up ours, so I did some scouring around and found some really basic code you can include in your <head> tags to facilitate RSS auto-discovery. The code (and a short but good explanation) is here. [...]


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28 March 2006 @ 12pm

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wikis

the coolness of wikis

Since wikis were so hot at CiL, I thought I’d pass along a great resource I just stumbled upon: eastwikkers, a technology blog, is running a fun project called “33 Wikis” where they highlight a wiki a day for the next 33 days. I’ve already seen a couple that look absolutely amazing (Fluwiki, anyone?), [...]


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28 March 2006 @ 10am

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op-ed

carnival!

A bit delayed with this but, a heads up: the latest Carnival of the Infosciences is up at Open Stacks, a nice co-celebration with OS’s 3rd birthday! Plenty of good conference stuff in this edition.
Also, since this edition marks my first “official” submission to the Carnival, I’ve signed up to host the week of May [...]


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26 March 2006 @ 6pm

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talk/teach

course: blogs, rss, and other 2.0 technologies

Just barely catching my breath from CiL (quick! exhale!) and my 6-week online course through the Education Institute begins tomorrow. I usually try to have all the content done and delivered a few weeks before the start of the course, but with CiL this year, I only managed to get the first 2 weeks out [...]


CiL: run-down, wrap-up, overall impressions

What I’d really like to do is write a perfectly cohesive narrative wrapping-up the past three days neatly, but the fact of the matter is, my brain is still abuzz with ideas and impressions that relate to each other only in the most tenuous of ways. And I thought the 11-ish hours of sleep I [...]


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