Marsco Information & Research

I rely on Bloglines for reading blogs, but occasionally you come across a blog that doesn’t have a feed, what to do?  I’ve had a post about RSSPect sitting in my Bloglines saved items for over a year now so thought I should finally investigate.  RSSPect requires a simple sign-up process, and then automatically takes you to a page to create feeds from your own content.  If you want to create a feed from someone else’s blog, you need to click on the AnySite tab.

You insert the url and then choose what sort of updates you want, major and minor are the default.  If you choose all you will probably find out every time they change links, do something to the sidebar etc.  Once you’ve completed that page it takes you through the final stage, what you want to do with the feed.  I use Firefox as my browser and it is set to subscribe any new feeds automatically to Bloglines.  I clicked on the feed url and then was taken straight to the Bloglines page where I could set it up.  Simple!

Several months ago I used Meebo Rooms for an online discussion group for a research project I was working on. It was really successful (although due to the subject we attracted tech-savvy participants) and I would definitely use it again. I’ve blogged about it in the post below and I would definitely use it again as it is so easy and simple.

LibrarianInBlack linked to an article about adding Meebo’s instant chat widget to a library catalogue, seems like Meebo has loads of uses and this one is particularly good.  Can’t find something in the catalogue?  Chat to library staff online who can help you.

It’s ok, this isn’t going to turn into a Meebo fan site!  It could do with more content though.  Sorry.