“Did you ever want to get a help file for Gmail, Google Docs or for Google Desktop so you can print it or save it on your computer? All Google services have help centers that include information about features, tutorials, troubleshooting guides, but you need to find the information in a complicated hierarchy of topics… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: RSS
Upcoming Computers in Libraries Workshop – Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research
Workshop 8 Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM, Sunday April 6, 2008 – Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com. This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging the best of free and low-fee web sites as well as web-related services to support… Continue Reading
Tail Report – Survey of Web Revenue
“Tail Report has launched with the goal to map out how money is made in the blogosphere. Tail Report works by asking users to anonymously submit information about their site’s traffic, rank and monthly revenue. In return, the user receives a custom report detailing what other websites are making and how their revenue compares based… Continue Reading
Google Adds New Features to Book Search, Advanced Search and Google Reader
Google Launches New Features to Collect, Share, and Discover New Books – ComputerWorld: “Users may now…”create and search their own library built on Google Book Search, so they can organize, annotate and do a full text search through the books they have chosen…share their expertise by allowing them to annotate their libraries with labels, write… Continue Reading
Current Awareness Search Engine Indexes 1,400 RSS Feeds on Library Related Topics
“LibWorm Beta is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output… Continue Reading
Medical RSS Filter Engine Offers Over 4000 Authoritative RSS Feeds
“MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds…MedWorm collects updates from over 4000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical categories that you can subscribe to, via the… Continue Reading
Bivings Report: American Newspapers and the Internet: Threat or Opportunity?
Posted on July 19, 2007, By Erin Teeling in Newspaper Study, Bivings, Research (TBG): “We have recently completed the 2007 study of Americas top 100 newspaper websites, entitled American Newspapers and the Internet; Threat or Opportunity? As the newspaper industry continues to suffer declines in readership and circulation, using the Internet to expand a newspapers… Continue Reading
International News and Problems with the News Media's RSS Feeds
“A new ICMPA study takes a look at the media’s use of RSS and concludes that RSS feeds work very poorly for those who use news for more than infotainment. The study looked at 19 of the world’s top news sites to see which ones gave the users of their RSS feeds the same number… Continue Reading
Google Reader Launches Offline Access
Google Reader Blog: “…you can [now] use Google Reader offline…To do this, we’ve used the newly released Google Gears, a browser plugin that enables offline web applications. Once you’ve installed Google Gears, you can download your latest 2,000 items so they’re available even when you don’t have an internet connection. To get started, simply click… Continue Reading
Policy Center's Study Shows Flaws in News Media's Use of RSS
From the Center for Media and the Public Agenda at University of Maryland, College Park: International News and Problems with the News Media’s RSS Feeds: “This study was constructed to determine which news outlets use RSS wellwhich outlets give users the range of information that most closely approximates what can be found on the outlets’… Continue Reading
New, Free Searchable Database of Federal Register Rules and Notices
Tim Stanley and the Justia team keep rolling out new services for the legal community that assist us in accessing essential government documents via user-friendly websites, with accompanying RSS feeds and customized search capabilities. Today news is about the launch of a free, searchable database of Federal Register Regulations, Proposed Rules and Notices. This site… Continue Reading
RSS Service Tracks Price Changes on Amazon Products
“RSStalker.com provides RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon.com products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when you are done…Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a… Continue Reading
