Introducing Qrius, RSS for the other 90%
A new RSS service, Qrius (pronounced, I assume, “curious”), is aiming to bring RSS to the vast majority of Internet users who don’t read it. While the Qrius site is devoid of details, an article in...
View ArticleGoogle Reader Latest Victim of Google’s Spring Cleaning
Oh nos! Google announced on March 13, 2013, that Google Reader would be shut down on July 1, 2013. When Bloglines shut down (and then was resurrected in a slightly different form in 2010), Google...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Feedly Offers an API
Screen shot from http://developer.feedly.com/ Feedly, the web service that inherited a large number of Google Readers users when Google pulled the plug on it, is now offering an API for developers who...
View ArticleNo Personal Spacecraft or Colonies on Mars
I’ve been thinking recently about how yesteryear’s promises of technologies to come have missed the mark. In the classic science fiction novels I devoured as a child in the late 1970s and early 1980s,...
View ArticlePerspective on Discovery
I’ve been reading with interest the items that have been written in the past few weeks about library discovery by Lorcan Dempsey, Dale Askey, Aaron Tay, and Carl Grant, among others. Library discovery,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apple Takes on RSS
One of the features of Apple’s soon-to-be-released Mavericks operating system is Safari “push notifications.” Similar to what you might be familiar with on an iOS device, these are updates that you can...
View ArticleInternet Archive Tries to 404 the 404
The Internet Archive announced today a new service — creating a permalink for a web page that leads to copy of the page at the Internet Archive. So, for example, I just created a permanent snapshot of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Making Maker Libraries — LITA Forum Keynote
I’m attending LITA National Forum 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky. I’ll be posting some conference notes sporadically. The opening keynote session is a talk by Travis Good, contributing editor of Make...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 4th Floor and Library Transformation
This is the second keynote address at the LITA Forum in Louisville. The speaker is Nate Hill, assistant director of the Chattanooga Public Library. Follow him on Twitter at @natenatenate. The 4th Floor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Discovering Discovery at LITA Forum
Notes from a talk by Annette Bailey of Virginia Tech at the LITA National Forum, “Discovering Discovery.” Virginia Tech has been a Summon customer since 2010. They have leveraged Summon to change...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How the Feed Changed the Web
Mashable published an interesting post and infographic about how the “feed” changed the way we consume information. The author notes: “The feed now dominates online content consumption, from the news...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things
These are the notes I took during today’s OCLC Symposium on “The Internet of Things” at ALA Annual 2014. For tweets from the presentation, please see the Tweets at #oclciot. The presentation was by...
View ArticleTechnology Priorities for the New Library Reality
These are lightly edited notes from Sarah Houghton’s talk at ALA Annual 2014. Tweets from this presentation may be found at #alaac14. Starts off with results of a survey: ‘Why are we talking about this...
View ArticleWhat Could the “Internet of Library Things” Be?
At the recent ALA Annual Conference, I attended the OCLC Symposium on the Internet of Things, hosted by Lisa Carlucci Thomas and presented by Daniel Obodovski, co-author of The Silent Intelligence: The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Year in Reading (2014)
My personal reading for 2014 has been mostly for entertainment. The list is shown in chronological order. My favorite five from the list below are noted with bold text. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of...
View ArticleIn Today’s Internet of Things, YOU Are the Thing
The Internet of Things was a hot item at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month. A vast array of Internet-enabled devices was on display, everything including the Baby Glgl smart...
View ArticleA Decade of Blogging
Do you remember May 2005? I do in some respects, but not in others. Being the parent of a six month old at the time, I have to admit a lot of non-family things are lost in a blur. But I do remember...
View ArticleA Year in Reading (2015)
TweetI did a bit better reading (and perhaps worse blogging) this year, upping my total to 26 books for the year, or one every other week. My top 5 books of the year are in bold text; interestingly,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Estimate PDF Views on Your Site
TweetProbably old hat to many astute RSS4Lib readers, but this was new to me, so I thought I’d share this solution to getting a reasonable minimum number of PDF downloads from your site, assuming that...
View Article
