Library clips

everybuddy has linked to one of my posts on RSS content without the platform.

That is information via feeds, but the information doesn’t have a place on the web…there is only the RSS version of the content.
So if it’s not available on the open web to read at a URL address, you need to be able to read it by subscribing to it, and reading it with your own client…the only thing is where do you find it to subscribe to it, if there is no web…you have to rely on people sending you the details.

Is this true RSS conversations.

I love the quote:

“The web will disintermediate itself.”

I didn’t really think about this concept till now.

Just came across zookoda which is a free full featured push email subscription for your website or blog.

I liked the idea that the last week or month of blog posts can be sent out in a newsletter…it would be good if FeedBlitz could have an option for users to receive the latest blog posts by date or month, with posts organised by category, and all formatted in a newsletter form.

Sometimes people aren’t interested in receiving the latest posts everyday, and would rather to wait a month, and have all the posts for that month organised into a newsletter form and sent to their email box.
This is still based on the pull email idea of RSS to email, only in a time based formatted newsletter.

The newsletter would have all the months post organised by category, and maybe a TOC…this would be a hyperlinked webpage

…maybe you could even generate newsletter archives for your blog.

Instead of seeing a stream of entries for a given month, you could view a newsletter report and view the months entries in a more formal presentation.

I posted on RSS newsletter ideas a while back eg. every week grab every post you have done (organised by category) and put it in one long post, then file it in a category called “newsletter”…this category could have a feed that people could subscribe to rather than your main feed.

Instead of creating this newsletter post in the same blog you could maybe do it in a new blog…a bit of a manual process, where’s the automation.

The Nucleus blog service seems to have an RSS feed called MyNewsetter:

“This plugin adds the possibility to Nucleus to send a daily/weekly/monthly/…, or just manually, newsletter with the latest X entries of your blog or the entries of today/yesterday. Your newsletter is completely customizable since it uses a normal Nucleus Skin to produce the newsletter! “

I think there is defintely a market for this: FeedBlitz could poll feeds as usual but hold the posts in a waiting area where at the end of the week/month they are placed into one email, or better still into a form where it generates a newsletter.
Based on your reading behaviour or some sort of attention data, the posts could be displayed as a newspaper (some stories having a big space, others a small space), throw in a few ads.

A while ago I posted on how Davey P experimented with tags in an OPAC.

Well this has now been implemented from Upenn’s OPAC into a local folksonomy, including feeds to keep up with the latest…here are the instructions (they have their own toolbar and bookmarklet). What else is cooking in the librarians kitchen.

Actually I first thought this was incorporated into the OPAC, but instead it is a local folksonomy for any type of webpage including the catalogue.

Here’s their catalogue, and you can’t browse by tag, unlike Davey P’s experiment…nonetheless it’s great to see a local (university) folksonomy being run by the library.

See the tag cloud.

See the tag violence.

See a user space.

The there is something called Projects, which seems to be lists, similar to H20 Playlist, here’s an example.

I can only imagine that OPML is next.

[via Library “good” Stuff]