Webfeeds: bizjournals.com

Another collection of feeds, arranged by industry (46) and city (42). You do need to register to access the articles. [link via TVC Alert]

BusinessLogs

I just linked to one of their articles, but the site itself is worth a mention. What I like most about BusinessLogs is that they're writing about best practices with blogs (including this one about having content ready to go when your blog goes live).

"Fear of RSS"

From Paul Scrivens on BusinessLogs, a good article that promotes the use of feeds by comparing them to the other ways we try to keep track of the web sites we regularly read. [link via Furl/RSS]

There are many sites that I keep track of and I will never remember them off the top of my head. I don't remember all the sites in my RSS reader, but I don't have to since it does all the remembering for me.

ACS Wrap-Up

In between my poster sessions and other activities at last week's ACS National Meeting, I gave a crash course on RSS to two reps from the ACS Publications Division. I had been corresponding with one of them over the summer (following up from SLA in Nashville) about the possibility of creating feeds for their journals. They currently have one feed, for the Nanofocus section of Chemical & Engineering News. I showed them Bloglines, we looked at the other journal web sites that are using feeds like BioMed Central and IOP, and we discussed the challenges of offering feeds for licensed resources when readers may not have access to the articles themselves. Hopefully, they'll move ahead quickly on adding feeds for C&EN and the journals.

I also stopped by the Nature booth and asked that they consider adding a feed for their book reviews. The RSC and PNAS reps had no idea what I was talking about but gave me business cards for the people I should contact.

Webfeeds: Computerworld and EContent

Two computer science magazines with extensive sets of webfeeds:

Computerworld has the standard "breaking news" feeds, plus 70 topical feeds (.net to XML), 16 Knowledge Center feeds, 10 industry feeds, and another 40+ feeds for special coverage topics like electronic voting and viruses/worms.

EContent has set up their feeds based on their research centers: KM & Collaboration, Content Management, Search Technology, etc. They also have a "breaking news" feed, and you can set up your own search-specific feeds. Wired also has this customized search feed option.

Brief Hiatus

I'll be in Philadelphia next week for the American Chemical Society Meeting, presenting a poster on our library's content management system. I'm also going to meet with someone from the ACS Publications Division who wants to talk about RSS (I spoke with one of his colleagues at SLA in Nashville). I would love to see them set up feeds for their journals.

I'll report back when I return.

.Gov Feeds

If you're interested in how government (local, state, federal and foreign) agencies and departments are using RSS, then RSS in Government is a must-read. They also have some good category-specific feeds.

I'd like to see more federal agencies and departments embrace feeds for news delivery, particularly the ones that release reports that would be worth a mention in our science blog at GSU. However, I did some searching and found these:

• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - a feed for product recalls.
• National Weather Service - The NWS has embraced RSS with its Experimental Listings of Watches, Warnings, and Advisories by State and Territory. You can get a severe weather alert feed for your state, which is a bit experimental. I have to admit, if Atlanta's under a severe storm warning, checking the Georgia feed in Bloglines is not going to be my first thought. They also have feeds for lots of observation stations (39 in GA) of you want to keep up with current weather conditions.
• National Hurricane Center - Feeds for Tropical Cyclone Advisories: one for Pacific storms and two for Atlantic storms (English and Spanish)
• U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program - keep up with recent earthquake activity for the past day and past 7 days (magnitude > 2.5 and magnitude > 5.0)
• Department of Defense - 6 feeds: press advisories, news releases, contract announcements, transcripts, speeches, and American Foreign Press Service news articles. I wish this page were a little more prominent (it's under Press Resources on the DOD site) , but it's a good start and I'd love to see more departments offer this at the top level.
• US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) - I've never even heard of this agency, but they have several feeds for broadcasting cyber security alerts, bulletins and tips - for techie and non-techie audiences.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse - a "what's new" feed
• U.S. Census Bureau - a feed for the "New on the Site" page, very helpful for a site that gets updated as much as this one.
• National Institutes of Health - for press releases
• State Department, USINFO - feeds for top stories: Washington File, democracy, economic issues, global issues, human rights, international security, + 6 for regional news.

All Headline News (a webfeed for beer)

All Headline News - you get the typical "top" headline feeds, plus the "More Headlines" menu offers dozens of additional, specialized feeds on topics from Aboriginal to Zoos. Want a feed for news about coffee? Yoga? Genomics? They're all here. [via TVC Alert]

internet, web, net

Wired announced this week that they would no longer capitalize internet, web or net, effectively placing them on the same level with books, television, and radio. Cool. They're not proper nouns, so they shouldn't be capitalized.

Now if someone could finally settle "one-word-or-two" confusion over web sites and webpages.

Webfeeds: NPR and Greenpeace

National Public Radio has added more feeds, including ones for their programs. I tried the Fresh Air feed and got links back to the audio segments. And kudos to NPR for placing a link on their homepage! [link via LawLib Tech]

Greenpeace has 5 feeds, including "clippings" feed of Greenpeace mentions in the world press. [link via Library Stuff]