TechnoBiblio has a great post about the coming convergence of social software and instant messaging in libraries. A must read.

"I'm cleaning out my RSS feeds. Things that'll get feeds removed:

1) If I haven't read you for months.
2) If you don't publish full content feeds.
3) If you haven't published for months." [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Emphasis above is mine. If I'm busy and I only have so much time to read what's in my aggregator on a given night, the feeds with the 20 words of content definitely get the shortest shrift (pun intended). It's an efficiency thing for me and I know I'm not alone in this, which is why I hope libraries that offer feeds either provide full text or provide two feeds, one abridged and one unabridged.

"Google is your friend. All smart people use Google. You appear to not be one of them." [via MetaFilter]

Meet Joe Blog

"Not that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. The word blog — it works as both noun and verb — is short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like — mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball, haiku, car repair. There are blogs about blogs." [Time]

Nothing new in this article, and actually it's suprisingly late, but what did strike me is the way it ends, with "five sites that make it easy to find, organize and keep tabs on your favorite bloggers." Kinja, Technorati, and Blogdex are all no-brainer inclusions, but the list is rounded out with Bloglines and Feedster without ever once mentioning the words RSS, syndication, or aggregator.

This is how RSS goes mainstream. The next article will just have to figure out how to explain that both sites offer more than just blogs.