Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Still in the First Coming of Library Feeds. The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds “Dave Winer recently pointed to a post by Adam Green, which explored similar territory. Adam thinks 2006 will be the year the Web explodes: "The explosion I am talking about is the shifting of a website's content from internal to external. Instead of a website being a ‘place’ where data ‘is’ and other sites ‘point’ to, a website will be a source of data that is in many external databases, including Google. Why ‘go’ to a website when all of its content has already been absorbed and remixed into the collective datastream." His post specifically referenced Google, but I think this trend is much larger than even Google. The thing which is going to tie all this together is of course feeds. Mainly RSS, but perhaps Atom's much-vaunted extensibility will come into play too. This gets to the heart of the matter and I think Feedburner is onto something big here. Feedburner now views the item (e.g. a single post from your blog, or a specific search result in a topic feed) as ‘the atomic unit of measure in the feed’, which will in turn lead to Feedburner managing syndicated content ‘at a more atomic level by attaching 'threads' to the item.’ It reminded me of the Design for Data and ’content will be more important than its container’ themes I was big on at the end of last year and beginning of this (and which I will be re-focusing on now)[sigma]. If you think about it, focusing on the feed item is a profound change in how we think about RSS feeds. Up till this year, most of us thought of RSS feeds as a way to subscribe to single sources of content. But over 2005 it's become apparent that content is being remixed, mashed up and re-published across many sources - leading to heated ethical debates over content rights and confusion amongst publishers on how to 'monetize' (sorry I can't help but use that word) their content. Fred Wilson had a nice post on this theme recently, entitled The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed).” [Read/Write Web] Ask yourself if your library is ready for this type of shift, because overwhelmingly, the answer is no. Librarians just aren’t thinking like this yet, and we need to change this. It’s at the very core of the whole “Library 2.0” discussion, and this is why it’s so critical. If we keep our content locked up on our own websites and don’t get it out there for people to use as they want to use it, then our content will fall by the wayside. [The Shifted Librarian] 1:34:14 AM

Novell scores desktop Linux wins. Novell has signed an agreement to deliver 1,600 Linux powered desktop computers to high schools in the state of Indiana. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 1:32:01 AM

	Monday, November 21, 2005

TiVo Connects with IPod, PSP (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Digital video recording pioneer TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has tweaked its TiVoToGo service to let subscribers transfer recorded TV content to Apple iPod or Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation Portable (PSP) devices. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 6:45:15 PM

	Saturday, November 19, 2005

Michael Covers Library 2.0 Whitepaper from Talis. Today is turning into a very lucky day for me, because I was also going to write about the recent Talis whitepaper on Library 2.0, along with some context for what libraries should be starting to talk about in this area. However, Michael beat me to it on the ALA TechSource Blog. It's a great post, too, so click the link and go read it! [The Shifted Librarian] 11:05:06 AM

	Thursday, December 2, 2004

Open Source Multimedia Center For Windows. An anonymous reader writes "A new opensourced multimedia center for Windows has been released. Media Portal boasts the ability to turn your PC into an advanced HTPC (Home-Theatre PC) and PVR/DVR (Personal/Digital Video Recorder). It allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio, watch all your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a Modded Xbox to run." [Slashdot:] 7:43:13 PM

BBC: Blog picked as word of the year. Slow news day. [Scripting News] 6:57:17 PM

	Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Microsoft Debuts MSN Spaces for Bloggers (AP). AP - Hoping to keep more Internet users in its branded universe, Microsoft Corp. has become the latest company to offer blogging to the masses. [Yahoo! News: Technology] 8:24:15 PM

Google Local is sooo cooool Google Local. Better than the yellow pages [Cool Tools] like the man says, my wife and I like East Indian food, typed in that put in our city, Edmonton, Alberta and bingo bango a map with a list of East Indian food restraunts. I will never let my fingers do the walknig again!!!!YAHOO FOR GOOGLE LOCAL!!! 8:17:57 PM

	Wednesday, October 27, 2004

iPod Photo is Alive. It lives: iPod Photo. Back in a minute with details. Lots of tasty details in this post, if you're coming in from a direct link. iPod Photo: First Details [Gizmodo] [Gizmodo] 6:58:18 PM

	Sunday, October 24, 2004

Google Desktop Outshines Windows' File-Search Capabilities (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Google is famed for its Web search engine, but over the past few years it has acquired a different role: Microsoft's No. 1 foreign aid donor. First, Google fixed some of Internet Explorer's worst defects with its Google Toolbar, a free add-in that blocks pop-up ads and provides a shortcut to (naturally) Google's search engine and an auto-fill option to complete Web forms. Now it has released the Google Desktop, another free program that fixes an equally glaring weakness of Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities. [Yahoo! News: Technology] 8:14:58 PM

Zope 2.7.3. Application server for building web sites. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:25:14 AM

More podcasting noise.... One of my favorite writers, Rory Blyth, takes on the podcasting hype and anti-hype. Meanwhile, Carl Franklin is starting another audio show, since his first one, .NET Rocks, was very successful. They are having a contest to figure out a tagline for the show, which is named "Mondays." In another post Carl defended podcasting. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:18:40 AM

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