My friend (and LibWorm co-creator) Frankie Dolan spoke at Health 2.0 in Paris about MedWorm and I haven’t even posted the video of her talk until now. BAD David. Video is embedded below.

Frankie’s bit starts at about 10m 25s if you’d like to skip up to it.

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I wanted to announce my new blog, which details my MSc ILM research project on UK academic (i.e. university) library blogs:

http://ukbiblioblogosphere.blogspot.com/

On this blog I will

a) detail the progress and any interesting milestones in the research andwriting process itself

b) keep a list of relevant online resources, including openly available scholarly literature and related blogs

c) keep an updated “directory” of UK academic library blogs at http://del.icio.us/ukbiblioblogosphere

I warmly invite all readers of this list to follow my progress, leave comments and especially alert me to any new or closing blogs so that I can keep the list up to date.

I hope it contributes to research and practice in this field.

Keir, I expect to plunder your del.icio.us account for blogs not yet added to LibWorm- good luck with your project and thanks for making your collection available to others!

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• Added a feed from Google Blog Search (which uses a fairly narrow search) to the Superfeed.
• Added filters to the Superfeed to screen out a handful of false positives.
• Embedded Grazr widget (see end of post)

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To make sure I don’t miss any online chatter about Computers in Libraries 2008 (which starts next Monday), I’m subscribed to the following feeds:

• LibWorm
  [LibWorm feed]
• Feed for Twitter “CIL2008″
  http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/10313522.rss
• This feed aggregates all tweets from CIL08 and from various CIL-related searches in tweetscan.com:
  http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllCil2008Tweets
• CIL 2008 Wiki feed
  http://cil2008.pbwiki.com/rss2.php
• Technorati tag: CIL2008
  http://feeds.technorati.com/tag/CIL2008
• del.icio.us tag: CIL2008
  http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/cil2008
• YouTube: CIL2008
  http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/CIL2008.rss
• SlideShare tag: CIL2008
  http://www.slideshare.net/rss/tag/cil2008
• Flickr tag: CIL2008
  http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=cil2008&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

If you’re like me, you’d rather subscribe to one feed than several, so all the feeds above are included in the feed below:

Single feed that combines all of the above:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cil2008Superfeed

Grazr widget below will let you browse the Superfeed contents:

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24. LibWorm: This beta helps you “search the biblioblogosphere and beyond.” When you want to start your search on the Internet but only want to find library-related material, this tool can help. By pulling information from over 1500 RSS feeds in categories like academic libraries, government libraries, law libraries, podcasts: librarianship, medical libraries and more.

Thanks to Paul Pival for the heads-up!

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You can also check out what other medical libraries are doing by searching the Medical Library CSE for ovidsp.

You could even seek out specific instructional materials by searching for Ovidsp (handout OR instructions OR “how to” OR training)

For what the biblioblogosphere has had to say about OvidSP, see this LibWorm search.

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I love her description of how she used LibWorm to search the biblioblogosphere as a part of her research for a library school assignment:

…I was required to write a brief piece related to an assigned search tool. The point was to share with the class the latest news related to a particular site (I had the Librarians’ Internet Index). I used LibWorm to see what people were saying about LII. Julie Shen’s blog pointed me to a piece about Wikipedia’s plan to start Search Wikia, a community-based search service. I ended up using the article from the blog to discuss the niche LII has created in the market. Your site was really useful because the BBC article never mentions LII so I don’t know that I would have found the article without LibWorm.

This makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

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At the moment, I’m trailing Berci’s ScienceRoll- but not by a great margin.

This sort of contest is really about how many people one can motivate to go vote for one’s own endeavor- so the fact that I’m closing on Berci is probably due in no small part to bloggers like Michael Stephens, Wouter Gerritsma, Blake Carver, Zagreus Ammon (blogging under a pseudonym at Physician Executive) and Steven Cohen for encouraging others to vote for my blog.

If you haven’t yet, please head over to vote for davidrothman.net?

Thank you!

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(My emphasis here is on free and low-cost resources)

Explaining RSS

• Introduction to RSS for Librarians by Luke Rosenberger
• How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way by Stephanie Quilao
• Five Best Tips for Reducing RSS Information Overload by David Rothman
• Video: RSS in Plain English
  

Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator

• RSS Compendium-RSS Readers
• A Directory of RSS Aggregators
• Comprehensive List of Aggregator Options
• 20 Free Aggregators Reviewed and Compared

(My favorite is Google Reader)

RSS Plugins for Outlook

(2003 or earlier- Outlook 2007 has a feed aggregator built-in)

• RSS Popper
• BlogBot for Outlook
• Inclue!
• IntaVnews
• NewsGator Inbox (Now Free)

Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins

• Two more ways to trick out Google Reader
  (Includes Greasemonkey Userscript for Google Reader Subscribe and Google Reader Notifier Firefox extension)
• More toys for tricking out Google Reader
  (Includes Gordita, Google Reader Optimized userscript, and Controlling Google Reader with a Bluetooth Phone)
• Unofficial Google Reader Notifier (for OSX)
• Unofficial Google Reader Notifier (for Windows)

RSS-to-Email tools

• SendMeRSS (formerly R-mail)
• RSSFWD
• Squeet
• FeedBlitz
• FeedBurner
• ZapTXT (Also does neat things like RSS-to-IM)
• Feed My Inbox
• Turning Feeds into Emailed Alerts by David Rothman

Publishing RSS content on Web Pages

• Screencast: Using RSS to Add Currency to the Library Web Site (via streaming server – faster for those on slow connections | via blip.tv) – Melissa Rethlefsen, Education Technology Librarian, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Web page to supplement presentation.
• Live examples of various tool outputs

Web-Based RSS-to-Web-Page tools

• BlinkBits
• Feedo Style
• Feedroll
• FeedSweep
• Rss2Java
• RapidFeeds
• RSS to JavaScript
• RSSxpress-Lite
• Feed2JS Build JavaScript and Preview
• FeedTwister
• Grazr

Hosted RSS-to-Web-Page Tools

• Feed2JS
• JSMFeed.pl
• rss2html.com
• rss2html.php
• SimplePie
• zFeeder
• RSS-PHP

Feed mashing and filtering tools

• BlogSieve (mashing and/or filtering)
• FEEDblendr (mashing)
• FEEDcombine (mashing)
• FeedRinse (mashing and/or filtering; step-by-step tutorial here)
• RSS Mix (mashing)
• FeedSifter (filtering)
• FeedTwister (mashing)
• FilterMyRSS (filtering)
• FeedSifter (filtering)
• ReFilter (filtering)
• Yahoo! Pipes (Massively versatile and powerful feed manipulator, much beloved by David)
• Microsoft Popfly (Microsoft’s answer to Yahoo! Pipes)

Creating feeds for pages that don’t offer them

Sometimes called “scraping”

• PonyFish: Perhaps the easiest and most intuitive to use
• Feed43: May be among the most powerful, but has a steeper learning curve. Detailed walkthrough available here.
• WotzWot
• Feedfire
• Feedwhip
• Feedity
• Page2RSS
• Dapper
• FeedYes

Creating feeds from PubMed

• PubMed RSS Tutorial (From the NLM)
• How to: Generate a Custom RSS feed from PubMed
• How To: Create an RSS Feed for a Feedless Journal with PubMed
• How to: Create a PubMed RSS Feed for 30 Journals

Creating feeds from LibWorm (/MedWorm)

Although structured slightly differently, MedWorm and LibWorm have similar interfaces and identical search operators.
LibWorm FAQ
LibWorm-Fu for Beginners
Intermediate/Advanced LibWorm-Fu (Power Searching)

Okay, your turn: What good stuff did I miss?

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