Monday, May 30, 2005

Create your own feed

"Want more traffic? An easy way to distribute your news? Then you need an RSS news feed. To start all you need is content you want broadcast, and one RSS text file."

From: WebReference.com

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Variations on "on this day" theme

Let's not just stick to events "on this day". I have been playing with the javascript to include miscellaneous "of the day" services. Including quote of the day, lunar picture of the day, word of the day, Dilbert comic of the day and one for the kids -- Fact monster for the day.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Magpie RSS

How to display your latest blogger post on another page

Monday, May 09, 2005

RSS resources

"The RSS Compendium is designed to link you to information about RSS readers, resources, tools, etc..."

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

RSS incorporated into Library catalogue

National University of Ireland - Galway has incorporated at least two neat tricks into their library catalogue. Uses Aleph500 system.
1. RSS buttons to retrieve new titles meeting search criteria - I'll subscribe to check how this operates.
2. Permalink buttons to provide permanent links to search results or individual records.


http://opac.nuigalway.ie/ALEPH