Sunday, April 5, 2009

Lots of Fun 2.0 Tools Here!

From
2009: What’s Hot in RSS
via PLA Blog by KarenKeys on 4/2/09

Learn to search and create RSS feeds for YouTube tags for your library. What stories are being told about you?

Votes Database: from the Washington Post (and created by an intern). You can set up the RSS feeds for a particular member or all recent votes.Votes Database: from the Washington Post (and created by an intern). You can set up the RSS feeds for a particular member or all recent votes.

Ravelry: The social networking tools for knitters. (Trust us! We've been there and it includes crochet and fiber arts)

Open Congress: Taps into the Thomas page and features many different types of feeds. Cohen likes the issues option. After selecting on an issue, you can pick a feed option or choose “share this.”

Justia : Search and set up feeds for federal court filings.

compfight: a Flickr search tool that can also be limited it to Creative Commons. Still in beta. Once again, what story is your library telling?

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