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Searching the “New” Web:Blogs & RSS
ORALL Annual Meeting October 13, 2005
Presented by Bonnie ShuchaUW Law Library
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What Is the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site?
A blog IS a Web site However, the structure is slightly
different than a traditional website
All convertibles are cars, but not all cars are convertibles
All blogs are Web sites, but not all Web sites are blogs
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What Is the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site?
As with any Web site. . .
There are some really great blogs
There are some really rotten ones
And there are a lot of them in between
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Blog Characteristics
Brief informational posts arranged in reverse chronological order
Timestamp for each post Archives of previously posted content Comment feature offers interactivity
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The Blogosphere
There are 14.2 Million weblogs with over 1.3 billion links
The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months
A new blog is created about every second and over 80,000 created daily
From: Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere http://www.technorati.com/weblog
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Blogs are Everywhere!
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The Importance of Blogs
Help our patrons and ourselves: Stay informed about areas of interest Get up-to-the-minute news & information See viewpoints outside the
mainstream media
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Example: WisBlawg
http://wisblawg.blogspot.com
WisBlawg offers legal research and Internet news & information with an emphasis on Wisconsin
Blawg=Law-related blog
WisBlawg is viewed about 100
times per day
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Blog Features
Informational posts with links to relevant sites
Images (optional)
Comment feature
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Finding Blogs
Law Library Blogs 48 blogs associated with a library 20 blogs by law librarians 7 law library association or committee
blogs
For a list, see the “Shucha List” at http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/blogslistpublic.htm
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Finding Blogs
Other Library Related Blogs Blogwithoutalibrary
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links.html List of blogs by library type
Library Weblogs http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
List of blogs by country
LIS Blogsource http://lisblogsource.net/ Blog about library blogs
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Finding Blogs
Law Blogs (Blawgs) RSS News Feeds for Law, TVC Alert -
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html
Blawg: Law & Legal Related Weblogs - http://www.blawg.org/
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Searching Blog Content
Blog Search Engines Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/ Feedster http://feedfinder.feedster.com/ Technorati http://www.technorati.com/ Daypop http://www.daypop.com/
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Evaluating Blogs
BlogPulse - http://blogpulse.com/profile
Tool to help you evaluate the content and influence of a blog
who authors it how active the blog is how it ranks compared to other blogs what it's about
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Reading Blogs
Good - As a Web page Stay current but requires reader
to visit multiple sites daily to check for updates
Better - Via a RSS feed All updates delivered to one location Read multiple feeds in one place
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RSS
What Is RSS?Rich Site Summary OR
Really Simple Syndication
See LawLibTech (Cindy Chick) RSS Tutorial: What Is RSS, http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000098.html
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RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs
Law-Related Dockets Recent opinions Journal tables of contents Government agency news
See TVC Alert’s RSS News Feeds for Law, http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html
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RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs
Other Newspapers Custom News Alerts
Feedster Google News Alerts
SEC Filings Product Recalls
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RSS for Library Content
Databases ProQuest
-http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/rss/
SFX & Metalib (RSS Creator) - http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker/rss.htm
OPACs Innovative Interfaces -
http://www.iii.com/news/pr_template.php?id=256
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RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs
Coming Soon? LexisNexis ECLIPSE Westclip – Already available with West
IntraClip
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RSS
“Anyone who needs to monitor current news on a regular basis will need to understand and use RSS in some form going forward.”
Source: LawLibTech RSS Tutorial: What Is RSS, http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000098.html
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RSS Readers
… into somethingreadable
Turns RSS feed…
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RSS Readers
Click on or RSS link on blog or web site to get the URL for the feed
Subscribe to the feed with a RSS reader which displays it in readable format
With a RSS reader, multiple feeds are delivered to a single software or Web application
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RSS Readers
RSS readers are also known as: RSS aggregators news readers news aggregators
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Free RSS Readers
Web-based MyYahoo - http://my.yahoo.com/ Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com Pluck (Web or IE Plug-in) -
http://www.pluck.com/
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Free RSS Readers
Software FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/ RSS Bandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
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Bloglines
Free Web-based RSS reader Use to read:
RSS feeds Email Listservs!
Subscribe at http://www.bloglines.com/
Tutorial movie (UC Berkeley Library): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/rss.html
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RSS Feeds
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Posts
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Drawbacks of RSS Readers
Can’t easily reply to posts Posts not saved – unless you save
them May get ads from some feeds or
readers Predictions that spy ware will soon
invade RSS
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“We librarians, as information experts, do our patrons a disservice if we fail to make an effort at tapping into some of the information that may only be found in the blogosphere.”
From “Mining Information Gold in the Blogosphere,” AALL Spectrum, November 2004