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An Introduction to: Blogs and RSS

An Introduction to: Blogs and RSS. Ronda Grizzle 17 October, 2006. Blogs. A blog is … a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

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An Introduction to: Blogs and RSS

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  1. An Introduction to: Blogs and RSS Ronda Grizzle 17 October, 2006

  2. Blogs A blog is … • a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. • often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. • primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

  3. Blogging Sites One of the earliest personal bloggers was Justin Hall who began 11 years of blogging while a student at Swarthmore College in 1994. • Xanga.com (1996) • Open Diary (1998) • Livejournal (1999) • Diaryland (1999) • blogger.com (1999) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

  4. RSS • RSS is a family of web feed formats. The initialism "RSS" is variously used to refer to the following standards: • Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) • Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0) • RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) • specified in XML • delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed," "webfeed," "RSS stream," or "RSS channel". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

  5. Feed Aggregators • Also known as feed readers. • Software that tracks a list of feeds and displays new articles. • If you use the Firefox web browser, a website with a feed will be shown in the address bar with a feed icon similar to this one: • Many web pages now publish a feed of their content. Usually, they’ll use a graphic to show readers that a feed is available. • Feed readers can be downloaded to your computer, or you can use an online feed reader. • For a list of available desktop and web-based feed readers, see http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

  6. Questions? Please feel free to contact me! Ronda Grizzle Office: Alderman 505 (just look for the monkey!) Phone: 4-3965 Email: rgrizzle@virginia.edu

  7. Library Blogs and RSS Feeds Leslie Johnston October 17, 2006

  8. Library Blogs & Feeds –Technology in Libraries • Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog: http://orweblog.oclc.org/ • The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/ • D-Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/ • ALA Tech Source: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/ • Free Range Librarian: http://freerangelibrarian.com/ • It’s All Good: http://scanblog.blogspot.com/ • planet code4lib: http://planet.code4lib.org/ • web4lib: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib • rss4lib: http://www.rss4lib.com/

  9. Library Blogs & Feeds – Technology in the World • TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/ • Wired News technology: http://www.wired.com/technology.html • Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/ • c/net news.com: http://news.com.com/ • BoingBoing: http://boingboing.net/

  10. Library Blogs & Feeds -- Cataloging and Metadata • Catalogablog: http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/ • OCLC Cataloging and Metadata news and updates: http://www.oclc.org/news/cataloging_metadata.rdf • FRBR Blog: http://www.frbr.org/

  11. Library Blogs & Feeds – Academic Library Topics • Association of College and Research Libraries: http://www.acrlblog.org/ • Chronicle of Higher Education news: http://chronicle.com/news/ • The Kept-up Academic Librarian: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/ • If:book: http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/ • Library and Information Science news: http://lisnews.org/ • Library History journal feed: http://api.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/lbh/ • Hanging Together: http://hangingtogether.org/

  12. Library Blogs & Feeds: Intellectual Property • Larry Lessig’s blog: http://www.lessig.org/blog/ • LibraryLaw Blog: http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/ • CopyCense: http://www.copycense.com/

  13. Library Blogs & Feeds: Subject Areas • News Channels and Newspapers: News Feeds for science, technology, politics, book reviews, etc. • Journal publishers and aggregators: some offer alerts via RSS when news issues of journals are published. • Most require that you register as an individual user to activate this service.

  14. Local Blogs & Feeds • Robertson Media Center new videos: http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/avarch/rss/newVideos.xml • UVA Today: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/ • Erika’s Semester at Sea: http://librarianadventurepants.blogspot.com/ • beTech at UVA: http://indorgs.virginia.edu/betech/ • The Daily Progress: http://www.cvillenews.com/feeds/progress/ • cvillenews.com: http://www.cvillenews.com/

  15. Discussion • What Blogs and Feeds do YOU read? • What do you think our Library could do with Blogs or Feeds?

  16. Thanks! • Questions? • Contact me: • Leslie Johnston • Alderman 509 • johnston@virginia.edu Why spend time blogging when you could be sleeping instead …

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