RSS, Blogs & Resource Discovery
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RSS, Blogs & Resource Discovery
HALL Meeting, 11 Jan 2006Steven C. Perkins, J.D., M.L.L.
Coordinator of Reference Services
University of Houston [email protected]
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The Evolution of Web Pages Before there was a World Wide Web there was
Dr Ted Nelson and XANADU®, http://xanadu.com/
The first browser, WorldWideWeb, created editable web pages, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
Later web browsers did not allow you to interactively edit the web pages on the server.
Static web pages ruled the WWW until . . .
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The Introduction of the Wiki In 1995, Ward Cunningham established the first
Wiki, at the Portland Pattern Repository, and interactive web page editing was back in the WWW, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory
29 Dec 1997 saw the first use of WebLog on the RobotWisdom website, http://www.robotwisdom.com/log1997m12.html
Originally hand-coded, blogs were quickly automated, and are now mostly maintained through a browser-based application
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What is a Blog? A Blog is a Web Log, an interactive web page
that allows readers to post comments on the items posted to the blog.
See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog for a detailed explanation.
Blogs can be used with RSS feeds to keep your readers notified of important information.
Many organizations use blogs to ensure that everyone receives information in a timely manner.
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Questions to ask before starting a Blog What are you using it for?
Alerts Updates Discussion Who will manage How many editors Public or Private
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Types of Blogs Audio blogs, includes PodCasting,
http://www.Audioblog.com/, http://www.Podshow.com/ Videoblogs, http://www.videoblog.com/ Moblogs for mobile phones,
http://go.blogger.com/mobile-start.g PhotoBlogs like Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/ Klogs, Dashlogs, and Linklogs can be used to
point users to information sources
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Blog Directories Bloglines is a blog aggregator where you can
search for blogs on the subject of your choice, http://www.bloglines.com/
Law Professor Blogs links to legal blogs, “blawgs” by law professors, http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/
Library weblogs can be found at http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
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Some Law Blogs: LLRX, http://www.llrx.com/ Legal Periodicals from W&L,
http://bloggery.wlu.edu/lawrevs/ Law Library Technology, http://www.lawlibtech.com/ BeSpacific, http://www.bespacific.com/ Lawrence Lessig, http://www.lessig.org/blog/ The Becker – Posner Blog,
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/08/the_ten_command.html
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Problems with Blogs Most blogs are abandoned after being started.
LiveJournal has nearly 8 million blogs but only 3 million are actively maintained.
Open blogs can be subjected to comment spam. Hosting a blog on your own server may be very
troublesome. Using an off-site host can also cause problems. You could get sued. See, the EFF: Legal Guide
for Bloggers, http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
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Problems (cont.): Legal problems include Intellectual Property,
Defamation, Privacy, Employment, http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
Legal protection is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode47/usc_sec_47_00000230----000-.html
Bloggers reporting the news and those reporting on public records have some protections beyond Sec. 230, http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
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Who is Using Blogs in AALL? The AALL Annual Meeting,
http://weblog.law.ttu.edu/aallamo/ The CS-SIS, http://cssisblawgs.blogspot.com/ Law Libraries,
http://cssisblawgs.bloki.com/index.jsp?name=blogs&folderId=93662
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BLOG Resources: Blogging and RSSing the Librarian Way,
http://www.sla.org/Presentations/05Toronto/DITBloggingRSSingtheLibrarianWayTrends.ppt
All About Blawgs, by Robert Ambrogi, http://www.abll.org/pdf/ambrogi.ppt
Blog Software Breakdown, http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm
Blogger Tour, http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g Blogging: Reading and Creating Blogs,
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/uploads/media/blogging_notes.pdf
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Blog Software Three of the main software tools used for
blogging are: Blogger, TypePad, and Movable Type
Blogger is owned by Google, http://www.blogger.com/
Six Apart, owns TypePad, MovableType, and LiveJournal, http://www.sixapart.com/
Radio UserLand is another widely used blogging tool, http://radio.userland.com/
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RSS:
RSS has several meanings
There are different versions of RSS
Most Blogs have the capability of automatically generating RSS feeds
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Who is Using RSS for Law?
The Federal and State Governments Law Firms AALL Law Schools and Law Libraries Individual Lawyers and Librarians Everyone else you know
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Federal and State governments: FirstGov:
http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/Podcast_RSS.shtml
GPO:http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/index.html
Utah State Courts, Appellatte Court Opinions, http://www.utcourts.gov/
Louisiana Supreme Court Opinions, http://www.lasc.org/
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RSS and Law Firms Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Clark Wilson LLP Stark & Stark
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AALL: AALL TS-SIS, http://
www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/index.htm
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Law Schools and Law Libraries: Washington & Lee Law Journals Feeds for tocs:
http://law.wlu.edu/library/feeds/ RSS at Harvard Law,
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5
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What an RSS feed looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel>
<title>The Channel Title Goes Here</title><description>The explanation of how the items are related goes here</description><link>http://www.directoryoflinksgohere</link>
<item><title>The Title Goes Here</title><description>The description goes here</description><link>http://www.linkgoeshere.com</link></item>
<item><title>Another Title Goes Here</title><description>Another description goes here</description><link>http://www.anotherlinkgoeshere.com</link></item>
</channel></rss>
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Creating RSS Feeds: Code it by hand: write, save, validate, announce
Add it to a Blog page, supported by Blogger, Typepad, etc.
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Serving an RSS feed: Use your own RSS server, Slashcode and
Slashalikes, http://www.skybuilders.com/Users/Derek/research/slashalikes.html
Use your Blog, most Blog software supports RSS feeds
Register your feed with a service, Feedburner, www.feedburner.com/, Technorati, http://www.technorati.com/ping/
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Validating an RSS Feed: Userland validator, http://rss.scripting.com/
Feed Validator for Atom and RSS Feeds, http://feedvalidator.org/
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Finding RSS Feeds: RSS News Feeds for Law,
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html
Bloglines, www.bloglines.com/ Technorati, www.technorati.com/ My Yahoo and Google Homepage or Google
Reader
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Reading RSS Feeds: Some web browsers can read RSS feeds: FireFox, Safari,
Opera sage.moxdev.org/ Live Bookmarks, http://
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks Use Mozilla Thunderbird email client,
www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ Many people use separate RSS readers to manage their
RSS feeds: FeedReader, and BlogLines http://www.feedreader.com/ http://www.bloglines.com/ Google Reader reads RSS http://www.google.com/reader/things/intro
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More RSS Readers: Jeremy Wagstaff's list,
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/a_directory_of_.html
Lockergnome list, http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/resources/articles/quickstart.phtml
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RSS Resources: RSS for Content Publishers and Webmasters,
http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/
RSS Resources from MALL, http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/mall/inet_rss.htm
RSS Specifications, everything you need to know about RSS, http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-specifications.htm
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Thanks for your attention and time Steven C. Perkins, JD, MLL Coordinator of Reference
Services University of Houston M.D.
Anderson Library 713-743-9775 [email protected]
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