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19 March 2006 @ 9pm

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conferences, rss

next up: CiL

I’m attending my very first Computers in Libraries this week & I can’t wait! I’m presenting at a couple of sessions (on IM) and a panel (Dead Tech), and I plan to blog the rest of the conference sessions I attend too, so stay tuned. There are loads of bloggers this year, keep [...]


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7 October 2005 @ 7pm

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rss

google reader

Google has launched an RSS reader in beta. I haven’t played around with it all that much yet, mostly because it’s slowlikeyouwouldn’tbelieve, also because it wouldn’t play with my OPML file whatsoever. I’ll probably have more to say about it over the next few days, in the meantime, here’s a pretty comprehensive review.
Later: [...]


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26 September 2005 @ 8am

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rss

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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5 August 2005 @ 12pm

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rss

google homepage

I’ve been playing with Google homepage to-day. Here’s a screen shot of mine (particularly liked the Bertrand Russell quote since my library houses the Russell Archives!). Nothing revolutionary here, I haven’t committed to it yet so I’ve only gotten around to adding feeds to my own blogs as a test. In good [...]


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14 April 2005 @ 10am

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op-ed, rss

libraries, plucked

Pluck, as most of you probably know, is an RSS reader that comes in both Web-based and downloadable varieties. What I didn’t know about Pluck is that they have this little “Feed of the Day” blog going, and (even better) they’ve recently tuned into the fact that libraries and librarians are tech-savvy like you [...]


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