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How to follow the plot

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How to Follow the Plot

Aggregators:

RSS--Really Simple Syndication -- or Feeds

New web content comes to you -- rather than you having to go get it...

The basic premise of RSS is built on a subscription model, rather than surfing for content or searching through an engine like Google. You decide what you want to be automatically watched for new content (whether a blog, a wiki, a newspaper website, Amazon, whatever) and when it happens, you get sent that information -- to your e-mail address or to a site like Bloglines

It's about allowing a machine or program to aggregate content for you.

-- Here's a good intro article: \"RSS for Non-Techie Librarians\"

-- Content feeds with RSS 2.0-- 23 Dec 2005 article by James Lewin

-- Rojo

Rojo means "RSS with mojo" and in this spirit our company is dedicated to providing the best feed reader around so that busy people can discover and read content as efficiently as possible.

Blogs to watch

E-mail newsletters

Websites

WWWTools, especially their Interesting links 2006 page

"wwwtools is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web. Each article is on a particular topic or issue related to Web-based teaching and learning. The articles take a skilled researcher between 10 and 20 hours to research and prepare."

Listservs

Tools to help you manage your own information

-- Suprglu -- gluing your information together

-- School Library Blogs--Good Example of a Superglu

-- Swiki

A swicki is a natural extension of personal publishing on the web. Just as you can create a webpage, blog, or podcast, now you can publish a community powered search engine, tailored to produce only the targeted search results that you and your community want!

-- Elgg offers teachers and students an impressive suite of tools: Weblogging, social networking, privacy control, tagging - a popular way to search and find other objects and people of similar interest, customization resources, wikis, syndication, and podcasting.

-- FreeMind

A premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.

-- Action Outline helps you organize your bits of info into the intuitive Explorer-like outline form.

-- Writely

The Web Word Processor--another collaborative sofware tool that allows you to share, edit, and store documents.