Session B302 - What’s Hot with RSS! October 31, 2007

Steven Cohen, Senior Librarian, Law Library Management Inc., & Creator, Librarystuff.net

“RSS is neither simple nor syndicated: discuss”

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I’m not going to blog all the notes, since his presentation is up on pbwiki: Presentation site

Some points of interest:

• You can analyze trends with Google Reader, find your subscription numbers (this is fairly new), share items (which creates a new page of shared items, and another RSS feed of those shared items - this could be a really great item for sharing information among organizations)
• Tumblr - can share snippets, images, other feeds (Twitter, blog RSS feed, Flickr) - again provides another feed - can grab stuff from lots of folks, again could be good for organizations sharing information.
• Windows Vista has an RSS feed directly on the desktop, IE directly on the browser.
• Libworm.com - searching the biblioblogosphere and beyond. Run search results and then grab the feed.
• Techmeme Meta RSS for Tech bogs
• Wesmirch - Meta RSS for celebrity gossip
• Page2RSS - can create a feed from any page, whether they have one or not.
• Ebsco databases have feeds for searches now - after running a search for someone doing a big research project, subscribe to the feed and email them with new articles that come out. “You look like a hero.”