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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 blogsWhat Is the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site?: 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 betweenBlog Characteristics: Blog Characteristics Brief informational posts arranged in reverse chronological order Timestamp for each post Archives of previously posted content Comment feature offers interactivityThe Blogosphere: 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/weblogBlogs are Everywhere!: Blogs are Everywhere!The Importance of Blogs: 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 mediaExample: WisBlawg: 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 dayBlog Features: Blog Features Informational posts with links to relevant sites Images (optional) Comment featureFinding Blogs: 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 Finding Blogs: 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 blogsFinding Blogs: 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/ Searching Blog Content: 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/Evaluating Blogs: 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 Reading Blogs: 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 placeRSS: 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 RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs: 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 RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs: RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Other Newspapers Custom News Alerts Feedster Google News Alerts SEC Filings Product Recalls RSS for Library Content: 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=256RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs: RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Coming Soon? LexisNexis ECLIPSE Westclip – Already available with West IntraClip RSS: 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 RSS Readers: RSS Readers … into something readable Turns RSS feed…RSS Readers: 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 RSS Readers: RSS Readers RSS readers are also known as: RSS aggregators news readers news aggregatorsFree RSS Readers: 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/Free RSS Readers: Free RSS Readers Software FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/ RSS Bandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/Bloglines: 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 Slide28: RSS FeedsSlide29: Posts Drawbacks of RSS Readers: 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 RSSSlide31: “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 You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
orall Maitane Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 47 Category: News & Reports.. License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 08, 2007 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Searching the “New” Web: Blogs & RSS : Searching the “New” Web: Blogs & RSS ORALL Annual Meeting October 13, 2005 Presented by Bonnie Shucha UW Law Library bjshucha@wisc.edu What Is the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site?: 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 blogsWhat Is the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site?: 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 betweenBlog Characteristics: Blog Characteristics Brief informational posts arranged in reverse chronological order Timestamp for each post Archives of previously posted content Comment feature offers interactivityThe Blogosphere: 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/weblogBlogs are Everywhere!: Blogs are Everywhere!The Importance of Blogs: 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 mediaExample: WisBlawg: 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 dayBlog Features: Blog Features Informational posts with links to relevant sites Images (optional) Comment featureFinding Blogs: 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 Finding Blogs: 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 blogsFinding Blogs: 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/ Searching Blog Content: 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/Evaluating Blogs: 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 Reading Blogs: 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 placeRSS: 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 RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs: 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 RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs: RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Other Newspapers Custom News Alerts Feedster Google News Alerts SEC Filings Product Recalls RSS for Library Content: 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=256RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs: RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Coming Soon? LexisNexis ECLIPSE Westclip – Already available with West IntraClip RSS: 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 RSS Readers: RSS Readers … into something readable Turns RSS feed…RSS Readers: 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 RSS Readers: RSS Readers RSS readers are also known as: RSS aggregators news readers news aggregatorsFree RSS Readers: 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/Free RSS Readers: Free RSS Readers Software FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/ RSS Bandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/Bloglines: 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 Slide28: RSS FeedsSlide29: Posts Drawbacks of RSS Readers: 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 RSSSlide31: “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