[Web4lib] RSS on web page

Tue Dec 12 12:49:01 EST 2006

http://feed2js.org/ is really good.  It can be used in several ways-
as a service from their web site, or you can download the source code.
 It uses php, style sheets and javascript.  It is easy to install and
use, and it is open source.  The downside is that you can only display
one feed at a time with it, i.e. feeds cannot integrate, but you can
display several feeds separately.

Sigrid

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>   1. Re: Faceted Browsing - Looking for real live examples
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>   2. JOB: Digital Library Services Manager, Christchurch, NZ
>      (Roy Tennant)
>   3. RE: e-Readers (electric paper) (David Kane)
>   4. RE: Searchmash, the other Google serach engine
>      (Patricia F Anderson)
>   5. Re: Searchmash, the other Google serach engine (John Fink)
>   6. Including RSSon a webpage (Mark Costa)
>   7. Re: Including RSSon a webpage (Ken Varnum)
>   8. RE: Including RSSon a webpage (Danielle Plumer)
>   9. Anyone Have Experience With DDOS Attacks? (Blake Carver)
>  10. Re: Including RSSon a webpage (Jonathan Rochkind)
>  11. Re: Including RSSon a webpage (Mark Costa)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:13:42 -0800
> From: John Kupersmith <jkup at jkup.net>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Re: Faceted Browsing - Looking for real live
>        examples
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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> The recently re-architected Librarians' Internet Index might be another
> example.
> < http://lii.org/ >
>
> It uses Siderean's Seamark Navigator for searching and browse functions.
> < http://www.siderean.com/newsitem.aspx?pid=15 >
>
> --jk
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   John Kupersmith        jkup at jkup.net        http://www.jkup.net
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   Reference Librarian                 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
>   Doe/Moffitt Libraries
>   University of California, Berkeley
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Not speaking for UCB in this message~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Darryl Friesen wrote:
>  > I'm looking for some real live examples of faceted browsing, particularly
>  > sites using Flamenco or SOLR.  While the few demos linked off the software's
>  > sites are interesting, I'd like to get a sense of how and where it's being
>  > used in the real world.
>  >
>  > Many thanx,
>  >
>  >
>  > - Darryl
>  >
>  >  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:44:43 -0800
> From: Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu>
> Subject: [Web4lib] JOB: Digital Library Services Manager,
>        Christchurch, NZ
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> Digital Library Services Manager
>
> Christchurch City Libraries is the public library and information service
> provided by Christchurch City Council for the communities of Christchurch
> and Banks Peninsula. Each year, we welcome over 3.4 million visitors, loan
> 5.7 million items and deliver 9.7 million library website page views to
> users of our online information resources.
>
> Recognised nationally and internationally as innovative, customer-focused
> and forward-thinking, we are searching for an experienced manager to lead
> our provision of cutting-edge digital information services for our
> customers, wherever they are.
>
> This key role will lead our Digital Library Services team in the development
> and delivery of digital services and online resources.  These include
> facilitating the ICT needs of the organisation, identifying and harnessing
> opportunities to further enhance the customer experience through new
> technologies, and increasing the range of digital content available to
> customers through our websites and online services by ensuring they can
> effectively communicate with their library by phone, email and other means.
>
> You¹ll be our strategic thinker on digital development, while also managing
> our day-to-day ICT operations.  You¹ll also be expected to collaborate with
> peers across the country to ensure that Christchurch City Libraries remains
> at the forefront and contributes to the development of digital library and
> information services in New Zealand.
>
> Critical to your success in this dynamic role will be your ability to build
> effective partnerships, your proven leadership experiences and your ability
> to recognise ICT needs and facilitate solutions.  Your background will also
> demonstrate your strengths in planning, project and financial management and
> policy development.  Experience of coordinating digital services and
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> desirable.
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> services and resources and would enjoy working with a team of talented
> professionals in one of New Zealand¹s leading public library and information
> environments, we look forward to your application.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:41:27 +0000
> From: "David Kane" <DKANE at wit.ie>
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] e-Readers (electric paper)
> To: "Jim Campbell" <campbell at virginia.edu>, <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Message-ID: <457DC277.092E.0078.0 at wit.ie>
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> Hi Jim,
>
> That's an interesting rumor all right.  I suspect that the market does
> need to be jump started, because there are a lot people (like me) who
> are interested but who have never actually seen a reader of this type.
> I would pay $50 for a reader, in a heartbeat.
>
> David.
>
> > One interesting rumor is that Amazon will offer a
> $50 reader as a way of jumpstarting the market.
>
> - Jim Campbell
> Campbell at Virginia.edu
>
>
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> > [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of David Kane
> > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:26 AM
> > To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > Subject: [Web4lib] e-Readers (electric paper)
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > With the increasing availability of academic papers and other
> > literature online, might researchers in certain disciplines
> > benefit from using these new kinds of readers - based on the
> > e-Paper technology.
> > This kind of display is non-glare, and is as easy to read as a book.
> >
> > What are your experiences?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > David Kane
> > WIT Libraries
> > http://library.wit.ie/
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:15:04 -0500 (EST)
> From: Patricia F Anderson <pfa at umich.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Searchmash, the other Google serach engine
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Cc: Patricia F Anderson <pfa at umich.edu>
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> A number of people have sent me messages off-list asking what I liked
> about A9 that is different from the way it is now. I replied to one of
> them, and will paste that reply here for others to see.
>
> ---------------
>
> What's different is the functionality supported.  It used to be hugely
> customizable. You can still do some of it, but it is harder to do. They
> also kept your search history and pages visited, as well as your preferred
> search tools, and this history has now been thrown away. I had been using
> A9 to test search strategies for articles I was writing, and I was broken
> hearted to lose this databank without any warning. I wrote to them about
> getting back the history file, and they said no dice, they just threw out
> all the data.
>
> I had set up a lot of custom search sets, one group for history searches,
> another for image searching, another for medical and health. Loved the
> flexibility of it. Loved being able to sign in and get my favorite search
> tools all set up the way I like it from any computer. That went away, too.
> I can configure prefs, but they don't allow sign in and I have to set them
> up again everywhere I go. They set up THEIR prefs for easy access, but
> they aren't *MY* prefs.
>
> I set up a test custom search set in the new A9 at work, but can't get to
> it at home. And once I set up a test set, it won't let me make another
> test set for a different function. It also seems to have locked me out of
> editing the sets I already made. So I have a blank one with nothing in it,
> and can't edit it; and then I have another for "libraries" that supposedly
> contains every library with an A9 interface, and can't add new ones as
> they come up, or delete something if I find it isn't really a library
> opac. Maybe it is the browser I'm using or the platform I'm on, but I
> can't get it to work. Maybe this is me having trouble figuring it out, but
> wouldn't that say that there are some problems with the new interface and
> its usability?
>
> And I will never forgive them for throwing away my data without giving me
> a chance to save it. I would have gone through my search history and saved
> the whole thing as HTML rather than lose it. That is going to hurt me for
> a long time. Lots of things I didn't keep records of because I was
> trusting that it was in A9. That will teach me, eh? I was so upset I
> didn't buy anything from Amazon for a month. I'm thinking of switching to
> B&N, but probably won't.
>
> <http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/marginalspace/archives/2006/10/once_upon_a_tim.html>
>
> ---------------
>
> Best wishes, all,
>
> Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu
>
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Patricia F Anderson wrote:
>
> > The idea I'm seeing is that it is not so much a different algorithm or
> > different results as that this is their playground for how they might provide
> > the results in a different way. What I noticed in particular is the checkbox
> > for highlighting Wikipedia results. I am wondering if they are considering
> > the approach previously used by A9 as a net-wise federated search tool. I
> > absolutely *loved* A9, but then it went totally splat with their recent
> > changes. I don't use it anymore, and would be thrilled to bits if someone
> > else started offering the functionality that used to be at A9. If Google is
> > thinking about it, more power to them.
> >
> > Wishfully thinking,
> >
> > Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Gandhi, Adity wrote:
> >
> >> Google definitely comes up with interesting stuff every now and then.
> >> However, I am just wondering why does need to come up with yet another
> >> search engine, when it already has one (which is out there and well
> >> recognized).
> >>
> >> I don't understand by the term, "Different algorithm" cause I don't see
> >> any difference in the search results at all. They appear exactly the
> >> same.
> >>
> >> Shall we consider it as a strategy of marketing it differently?
> >>
> >> @dity Gandhi
> >> gandhi.adity at ocls.info
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> >> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Junus, Ranti
> >> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:26 PM
> >> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> >> Subject: [Web4lib] Searchmash, the other Google serach engine
> >>
> >> Google apparently just released another search engine with different
> >> search algorithm, SearchMash, at http://www.searchmash.com/
> >>
> >> Interesting.
> >>
> >> ranti.
> >>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:21:59 -0500
> From: "John Fink" <john.fink at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Searchmash, the other Google serach engine
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Message-ID:
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>
> My understanding as to why Searchmash exists and has little or no Google
> branding is that Google wanted a place to try out new features without
> having the experience skewed (either positively or negatively) by the
> presence of the Google name.
>
> jf
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:24:42 -0500
> From: "Mark Costa" <markrcosta at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
> To: "Web4Lib (web4lib at webjunction.org)" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Message-ID:
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>
> All,
>
> Has anyone found open code that allows you to include RSS feeds on a web
> page? I cannot use PHP, ASP, etc, nor can I use externally hosted
> javascript.
>
> Am I stuck trying to code something like that myself?
>
> Thanks,
>
> mc
>
> --
> Mark R. Costa, MLS
>
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man."
> --- George Bernard Shaw
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:30:48 -0500
> From: Ken Varnum <Ken.Varnum at tufts.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Message-ID: <D047A7C4-6614-42D5-8F13-42F2E51FF907 at tufts.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=US-ASCII;       delsp=yes;      format=flowed
>
> Try Feed2JS (http://www.feed2js.org).  It's javascript that can pull
> an RSS feed from another server.  You can use feed2js.org's web site
> to host the application, so all you need to do is include the
> javascript in your HTML page.
>
> For examples, see my library's home page:  http://
> www.library.tufts.edu/ginn/  (note that I'm running my own copy of
> the script, but there's no difference other than pride of ownership
> from using the hosted version).
>
>
>
> ----------
> Ken Varnum
>  Associate Librarian & IT Manager
>  Edwin Ginn Library, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
>  160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
>  Tel: 617 627 3826        Fax: 617 627 3736
>  http://www.library.tufts.edu/ginn/
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Mark Costa wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Has anyone found open code that allows you to include RSS feeds on
> > a web
> > page? I cannot use PHP, ASP, etc, nor can I use externally hosted
> > javascript.
> >
> > Am I stuck trying to code something like that myself?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > mc
> >
> > --
> > Mark R. Costa, MLS
> >
> > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> > progress
> > depends on the unreasonable man."
> > --- George Bernard Shaw
> > _______________________________________________
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:05:37 -0600
> From: "Danielle Plumer" <dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us>
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
> To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Message-ID:
>        <45057232A4AC6444B0F9452131E7446E0410C742 at exchange.win2k.tsl.state.tx.us>
>
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>
>
> You might look at the list of RSS resources at http://allrss.com/rssresources.html Most are PHP or JS based, but there might be somthing there that would work for you.
>
> Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
> Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
> Texas State Library and Archives Commission
> 512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
> dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Mark Costa
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:25 PM
> To: Web4Lib (web4lib at webjunction.org)
> Subject: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
>
>
> All,
>
> Has anyone found open code that allows you to include RSS feeds on a web
> page? I cannot use PHP, ASP, etc, nor can I use externally hosted
> javascript.
>
> Am I stuck trying to code something like that myself?
>
> Thanks,
>
> mc
>
> --
> Mark R. Costa, MLS
>
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man."
> --- George Bernard Shaw
> _______________________________________________
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> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:36:56 -0500
> From: "Blake Carver" <lists at lisnews.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Anyone Have Experience With DDOS Attacks?
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I'm looking for any ideas that anyone might have to help defend
> against a DDOS attack I may have over looked. I'm currently using a
> combination of mod_evasive, mod_security, 3 shell scripts I wrote, and
> a modified version of SSHBlack. These are all watching for patterns in
> httpd access and error logs, and then firewalling the offending IP via
> iptables.
>
> I'd love any novel ideas that might help me keep things running
> smoothly till this blows over.
>
> Here's a bit of the back story:
>
> One of my hosted sites came under attack starting on Friday by a
> pretty big botnet doing Trackback, comment and link spam. They're
> targeting quite a few different domains on the server, but hitting one
> extremely hard.
>
> They're hitting mostly MT and WP comment forms, but they're also
> throwing in some referral spam for good luck. It also looks like
> they're adding new computers to their network all the time because
> there seems to be a big jump in new IPs around 7 am EST, and then
> again about 4 or 5 hours later.
>
> I still don't think they're out to bring down the server or that one
> site on purpose, but I can't be sure. If I had to guess they simply
> have something misconfigured on their botnet and as a result one site
> is getting destroyed.
>
> I'm fine tuning the scripts I use to detect & block the bad guys, and
> I think they're getting pretty accurate. I added a new one last night
> that did a great job in finding several hundred new IPs. From what I
> can tell I'm doing a good job at only blocking bad computers, I've
> only heard from one person that I can't seem to unblock for some
> reason.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blake
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:13:16 -0500
> From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind at jhu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
> To: "Web4Lib (web4lib at webjunction.org)" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Message-ID: <457EB8FC.2060606 at jhu.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> An RSS feed is an XML file in the RSS format.
>
> There's nothing stopping you from writing such a file by hand in the
> editor of your choice, and then hosting it on your web site, and then
> linking to it.  There are certain methods of referencing the RSS file in
> your web page that allow RSS readers to 'auto-discover' it, you would
> want to look into those.  If you did it this way, you'd have to edit the
> RSS by hand every time you wanted to add a new item.  You would probably
> want to make sure and check the RSS you are writing by hand for validity
> before deploying it, because it's easy to accidentally include a typo or
> error.
>
> Of course, this would be a pain to do. Hardly anyone does things this
> way, because it's rather inconvenient. So most people use software to
> automatically generate RSS from some list of something.  But if you
> don't want to use javascript, and you don't want to use PHP or some
> other scripting language hosted locally, then I'm confused about what
> you DO want to do.  I suppose there might exist an application that
> let's you edit RSS files offline on your desktop computer and then
> upload them---like the solution in the first paragraph, but you aren't
> using a text editor, you are using something meant for creating RSS.
> But it doesn't sound like that's what you want either.
>
> What do you want?  What are you trying to do?  The first step is
> identifying what you are actually trying to do.
>
> Jonathan
>
> Mark Costa wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Has anyone found open code that allows you to include RSS feeds on a web
> > page? I cannot use PHP, ASP, etc, nor can I use externally hosted
> > javascript.
> >
> > Am I stuck trying to code something like that myself?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > mc
> >
>
> --
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
> 410.516.8886
> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:35:36 -0500
> From: "Mark Costa" <markrcosta at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage
> To: "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochkind at jhu.edu>
> Cc: "Web4Lib \(web4lib at webjunction.org\)" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Message-ID:
>        <b4a061400612120835p7a49f64cre6aa2680ccae1194 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> RefWorks has an option that generates an RSS feed from resources entered
> into your personal database. What I would like to do is display the 5-10
> most recent additions on our department's web page. In essence, it would be
> a running bibliography, with the most recent, hand selected items displayed.
>
> This is easy to accomplish if I had access to PHP, or probably even ASP. I
> know it can be done with 3rd party web sites that will generate the
> javascript and host it for you. Unfortunately, the externally hosted
> javascript would not fly at my institution (Army War College). I am looking
> for a solution that I can host on my internal site, so that if need be, the
> information security officers could review the code for security issues.
>
>
> On 12/12/06, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind at jhu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > An RSS feed is an XML file in the RSS format.
> >
> > There's nothing stopping you from writing such a file by hand in the
> > editor of your choice, and then hosting it on your web site, and then
> > linking to it.  There are certain methods of referencing the RSS file in
> > your web page that allow RSS readers to 'auto-discover' it, you would
> > want to look into those.  If you did it this way, you'd have to edit the
> > RSS by hand every time you wanted to add a new item.  You would probably
> > want to make sure and check the RSS you are writing by hand for validity
> > before deploying it, because it's easy to accidentally include a typo or
> > error.
> >
> > Of course, this would be a pain to do. Hardly anyone does things this
> > way, because it's rather inconvenient. So most people use software to
> > automatically generate RSS from some list of something.  But if you
> > don't want to use javascript, and you don't want to use PHP or some
> > other scripting language hosted locally, then I'm confused about what
> > you DO want to do.  I suppose there might exist an application that
> > let's you edit RSS files offline on your desktop computer and then
> > upload them---like the solution in the first paragraph, but you aren't
> > using a text editor, you are using something meant for creating RSS.
> > But it doesn't sound like that's what you want either.
> >
> > What do you want?  What are you trying to do?  The first step is
> > identifying what you are actually trying to do.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > Mark Costa wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Has anyone found open code that allows you to include RSS feeds on a web
> > > page? I cannot use PHP, ASP, etc, nor can I use externally hosted
> > > javascript.
> > >
> > > Am I stuck trying to code something like that myself?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > mc
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Rochkind
> > Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> > The Sheridan Libraries
> > Johns Hopkins University
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> > rochkind (at) jhu.edu
> >
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> --
> Mark R. Costa, MLS
>
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man."
> --- George Bernard Shaw
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