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.

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