Library instruction, technology, and ethics: Computers in Libraries 07, Tuesday

Steven Cohen, “What's hot with RSS!” (A204)

His presentation is at http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/CIL2007, and he uses pbwiki over powerpoint for presentations.

He prefers Google reader. One feature is to subscribe to others shared items from their feeds (thru Google reader).
Windows Vista now comes with feed list (titled “news”) on its desktop.
Internet Explorer 7 has feed reader built in.
Libworm.com – librarian rss search engine. You can save your search as an rss feed too.
Page2rss.com – changes websites into rss feeds so you can track a URL.
News feeds are not that good anymore. Some times the email alert, like from Yahoo, provides a very different amount of results from the RSS feed.
Techmeme.com – ranks blogging by topic. It shows what is hot.
OpenCongress.org – kind-of mash-up about bills, issues, and politicians covered in the news.
Dockets.justia.com – federal district court filings & dockets.
University of Oklahoma Libraries has great RSS feeds from their catalog. It tells you when they add a new item on your desired call number. They also have feed for added electronic sources, but that could also be used for what has changed (new years added, trouble accessing, more journal coverage, etc.)
LibraryThing has a lot of feeds.
Twitter – you can set up a feed for every friend, so as they add things, you get notice in your rss reader.

His top 10 – or 12 – favorite tools

Internet archive – archive.org (also great for reference)
Snapper – firefox add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2703) which allows you to do screenshots of parts of webpages, and saves it as a .png file.
Browster
Bugmenot
tinyURL
googlegroups – groups.google.com
citebite – provides links to part of a page so you can someone to a specific part of a page.
picnik
missing-auctions.com
twitter
meebo
pbwiki

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