Technically Random

I started playing around with the Google Dynamic Feed Control and Yahoo Pipes to see what it would look like to bring together all the RSS and blog feeds in the Libraries.  I put up a couple of test pages:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/test/rss.html
and
http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/test/rss2.html

The first example is just using the Google Dynamic Feed Control and the second is using Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the feeds into a single feed and Google Dynamic Feed Control to display the feed on the page.  I like the simplicity of the second view, but (as was pointed out to me) you lose the context of the feed source that you get in the first view.

I only include the half dozen-ish blogs and feeds that I could find.  If you know of any other UW Libraries feeds, let me know and I’ll add them to the list.

And, to give credit where credit is due, Jake was playing with both of these tools long before I was.  He has a test page using the Google Dynamic Feed Control at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/rss/intlstudies/newspage/newstest.html
and all of the new books lists that he does for International Studies is using Yahoo Pipes.

Corey

E-journal  RSS TOC (Tables of Contents) feeds are increasingly important for researchers in all academic fields. Scholars can track current and upcoming publications sometimes even before the articles actually appear.

News from ticTOCS:  http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/  is a discovery tool for new e-journal TOC feeds. The site is affiliated with the  ticTOC Project which aims eventually to be a central clearinghouse of information about  scholarly TOC’s.  The blog (of course) has its own RSS feed, and a growing Blogroll with direct links to related publishers and sites.