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A new website was launched by the Congressional information services company Gallerywatch.com, called USCongress.com. The site, whose content and sources will expand in upcoming weeks and months, is already a significant resource for government documents on a wide range of issues associated with Katrina, both before the disaster and its aftermath. The site is focused …
GPO’s “What’s New” website updates which provide links to full-text versions of significant government documents, is now also available via an RSS feed.
The FDA has a website that provides links to all of the agency’s RSS feeds, which currently include: press releases, recalls, food safety news and medical device information and news.
“Gartner…released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade.” [press release] Key collaboration technologies in the “hype cycle” include: Podcasting, Peer to Peer (P2P) voice over IP (VoIP), Desktop Search, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Corporate Blogging, and Wikis.
How journalists use blogs.
The patent law experts at rethink(ip) have created RSS feeds for all news items and notices released by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Terrific resource, and thanks to Dennis Kennedy for the link.
From Jim Moore’s Journal: Reporting on systems evolving, the following posting yesterday provides step by step details on how researchers can easily and effectively leverage RSS: RSS-oriented search engines are appearing, including MSN search, with RSS output and one-click subscriptions to leading news aggregators.
Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding – Renaming to ‘Web feeds’ spurs debate among bloggers Another day, another story…Microsoft Rethinks RSS Name Change
From Google: About Feeds and Terms of Use: “Google News section feeds: You can get a feed for any Google News section. For instance, if you select a feed link while you’re on the Business page, you’ll get a feed of business news. Google News search results feeds: You can also get a feed for …
What is RSS and Why Should I Care?, presented by Marianne Lenox, Staff Training and Development Coordinator, Huntsville Madison County Public Library, July 2005. [Peter Scott]
Public Awareness of Internet Terms, 7/20/2005: “The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term phishing means.” The data memo is 7 pages, PDF.
Driven to distraction by technology: “The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.” See also RSS Goes Corporate – Information overload also affects companies, …
