Tame The Web

This week I had my regular Monday night LIS701 class and have 2 guest lectures scheduled as well. I’m talking Web 2.0/L2 and one of my points, of course, is that LIS students need an aggregator and some feeds. Starting in school sets the stage for using tools such as RSS to stay in the [...]

RSS Identity Crisis – Brian Gray’s Web 2/Library 2.0 Presentation Originally uploaded by mstephens7.

Take a look at Brian Gray’s presentation:

http://briangray.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/10/25/2446127.html

Good stuff…great examples!

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/30/newsgator-posts-roadmap-for-the-future-of-rss/

There ‘s so much here about the power and future of RSS, I’ll just quote the end:

RSS is the foundation of almost everything Web 2.0 – isn’t it? It’s what makes blog readership scalable, podcasts subscribable, wiki changes watchable and so much more. If Newsgatgor can succeed in offering the kind of innovative [...]

Via the Copyblogger: http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-sell-rss/

Recently released studies re-affirm that people love getting content by email, and don’t get why they should switch to RSS. Of course when you ask the question “Do you want to aggregate RSS feeds?” and get a negative response, it’s as if you had asked “Do you want to access Web [...]