Apperantly, Vanderbilt News also has RSS feeds.It will definitely make me follow the news more closely from now on. You can subscribe to the RSS feeds here. Seems like the news feed is the same as the podcast feed.
May, 2005
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May 05
Vanderbilt News Podcast
I was surprised and happy when I read this. It is great to see that Vanderbilt is following the trend with the new and changing media. Mike Schoenfeld, vice chancellor for public affairs says:
The emerging media forms, such as podcasts, RSS feeds and blogs, allow people to access the specific news they are interested in without sorting through all the other information that is generated every day. We want to be sure that anyone interested in news from Vanderbilt can access it in the way that?s most convenient for them, and podcasts are an innovative new tool they can use to do that.
One thing that I noticed though is that, the piece says that a special software ?must be installed? to listen to the podcasts. Although, special software makes it easy to receive podcasts it is not necessary.
According to the Vanderbilt News Podcasts page, the podcasts will actually be Vanderbilt?s radio show That?s Vanderbilt. It is also said that listeners will be able to listen to the speeches given at Vanderbilt as well as the Senior Day Commencement ceremonies.
The podcast feed can be found here.
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May 05
Computing Research Policy Blog
I just discovered the Computing Research Policy Blog. It is a blog maintained by Computing Research Association (CRA) which “seeks to strengthen research and advancedd education in computing and allied fields” as stated in their mission statement.
There seems to be no comments but trackbacks are enabled for the posts. Archieves date back to January 2004.
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May 05
Newsgator’s Acquisition of Feeddemon
The news is that Newsgator acquired Feeddemon (actually Bradbury Software who develops Feeddemon, and TopStyle). Feeddemon is definitely the main interest of Newsgator since they are the developers of the Newsgator Outlook add-in.
I think this is a logical move since the RSS/feedreader market suddenly became too crowded and forces have to be joined in order to be able to go beyond simple feed reading capabilities. Reading Nick Bradbury’s post about the acquisition, it seems as though the initial plan is to tighten synchronization on multiple platforms.
Certainly. The most obvious will be that FeedDemon will integrate very closely with NewsGator’s online synchronization platform, enabling using FeedDemon on multiple computers while maintaining state between all of them. You could even use FeedDemon on your home computer, NewsGator Outlook Edition while at work, and NewsGator Mobile Edition while traveling, and still have everything synched between devices.
Beyond that, having a server-side piece offers a lot of interesting possibilities. Coupling a rich desktop client with a first-rate server-side aggregator provides the best of both worlds: you get the power of a Windows application and all the flexibility of a web-based approach. There have been a number of features I’ve been wanting to add to FeedDemon that required a server-side piece which I can now provide.
Nick Bradbury also mentions that current Feeddemon users will be given a two year business plan subscription to Newsgator. This seems like a good deal but it would not mean much to people who do not use Outlook.
So, it will be interesting to see how this acqusition will affect the RSS market and how it will work for Newsgator and Nick Bradbury. I had tried both products and both had their positive sides. I am going to be a part of Newsgator’s newest beta testing, which promised several synchronization features. I wish they could bring Feeddemon in that beta phase at some point for us to test out.
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May 05
Link Blog
Are you following my link blog? Just wanted to remind you that I have a link blog as well. If you click on the link at the top of this page you will be directed to that blog. I try to post the posts that I find interesting among the feeds that I read regularly. You may find good stuff there. So check it out. Oh, and I post to that blog with a single click from Onfolio while reading my feeds. You can read how I do that here. Isn’t it cool?
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May 05
Firefox 1.0.4
Firefox people were prompt at coming up with the patch to the security problem (I don’t have a link now, sorry)that was made public the other day. I updated to version 1.0.4. If you haven’t done so yet, I recommend doing that as soon as possible.