Nov 06
7
PaperRSS trails
One of my favorite tech authors, Jeremy Keith, has posted an interesting bit about streaming his life away. It seems that there could be library applications that would benefit from a similar effort if someone aggregated the RSS streams created while doing research.
For example, I just recently wrote an article with a colleage (have not heard about acceptance/rejection). We used Writeboard as a collaborative authoring tool. It produces an RSS feed for monitoring when someone updates the work. I could imagine combining this with a stream from a service like the Refworks citation manager. Pulling these feeds together with a citation database’s RSS or alert service feed the way Keith pulled together feeds from his iTunes, blogs, flickr, etc would provide an interesting picture of a person’s research activities.