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Jaiku?s dead, Long live Jaiku?

Posted on January 15, 2009
Google has announced that it is pulling the plug on Jaiku - the once very promising Twitter competitor. Or, at least, it is stopping developing it as an ‘official google service’ - along with doing the same or killing off: Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball and the Google Mashup Editor...

Finnish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on January 15, 2009
This is the 20th country I have done so far. Complete list here Government Portal [Website] Feeds Tiedotteet http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/import/DocumentFeedServlet?collect=rss&type=pressrelease Puheet http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/import/DocumentFeedServlet?collect=rss&type=speech Ministry of Finance / Valtiovarainministerio [Website] Feeds Tiedotteet http://www...

The right Byline

Posted on January 14, 2009
If you use Google Reader as you main RSS reader (and I do) and also have an iPhone (I do) then the chances are there will be times when you want to read your feeds via your phone. Google steps in and provides an handy mobile version of Google Reader, that has been tweeked to [...

Much Ado about Librarians

Posted on January 14, 2009
Thanks to the Notes about Libraries blog for bringing my attention to this early April fool from Edinburgh council reported in the Torygraph. If the story is to be believed then the powers that be in the capital of Scotlandia think the term ‘Librarian’ is a bit out dated, and needs jazzing up a bit...

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It?s not just about RSS readers

Posted on January 13, 2009
“A market without enterprise use of business class RSS readers is like a flock of sitting ducks. Any company that steps up to make serious strategic use of such software should be at an immediate advantage in terms of early and efficient access to information...

Resolutions

Posted on January 09, 2009
Well, I’m going to make a bit more of an effort to write more on library and information related issues on Information Overlord than I did during 2008, where much of my blogging was more about media and telecoms news/cases. I’ll still be doing that kind of thing too, but looking to get a bit [...

Sea of Poppies

Posted on January 09, 2009
Despite iOverlord’s protestations that there would be more library content on this blog, this is instead another foray into the seemingly endless task of blogging the Booker nominees.� Sea of Poppies as it happens, and not my favourite read… Interminable, unbearable, trying far too hard and not succeeding - all completely reasonable and pertinent descriptors [...

Burnham?s related rights and wrongs

Posted on January 07, 2009
Back in December I had one of my rants about the proposal the extend the protection in sound recordings . Following that rant, Andrew Gowers and Andy Burham traded letters in the FT, with Gowers calling Burhams position ’silly’. What follows is most of Burhams response and my comments on it...

Top 10 Films of 2008

Posted on December 23, 2008
Now I have to confess I have managed to miss a number of films such as Wall-E that i should have seen, but of what I did see, these were the best (and most came out at the beginning of the year and were Oscar nominated) 1. There Will be Blood - Seeing this at the [...

Albums of the Year

Posted on December 23, 2008
This was quite hard, as outside of the top half dozen or so there were a lot of good solid records that could have made up the numbers. Also there were several albums that may well belong on the list but, I just have not given a good enough listen too to include, so, sorry: Elbow, [...

The Birds and the Bees - An English lesson

Posted on December 17, 2008
So, there I was sitting eating my lunch - a Cajun chicken baguette (thanks for asking) when I started wondering about the birds and the bees. Thankfully, I also came to some conclusions, which I will share with you all now. Mock Duck : An instruction...

Rouken Glen Park

Posted on December 17, 2008
A bit of a different post from me today - yes, no rss feeds from Andorra or the like. Calm yourselves. Anyway, an old school friend’s children - Mia & Sam - entered a competition to write about fun places to go in Scotland and their entry about their local park, Rouken Glen Park has [...

Danish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on December 15, 2008
“That it should come to this!” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2 Udenrigsministeriet / Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Website] Feeds Nyheder Udenrigspolitik http://www.um.dk/CMS.Web/Modules/RssFeeds/default.aspx?channelUrl=http://localhost/www...

More ?B? government departments with rss feeds

Posted on December 15, 2008
Belarus Ministry of Culture [Website] Feeds News http://kultura.by/rus/news.rss Ministry of Public Health [Website] Feeds News http://www.minzdrav.by/tools/rss/rss.xml Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) [Website] Feeds News http://mvd.gov.by/rss.php Ministry of Transport and Communications [Website] Feeds News http://www...

The CAT?s whiskers

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has re-launched its website. [For those outside of the UK, the CAT is a specialist judicial body whose function is to hear and decide cases involving competition or economic regulatory issues.] The old version of the site was hit by a javascript malware infection in May/June, which caused the site [...

More ?B? government departments with rss feeds

The CAT?s whiskers

Danish government departments with rss feeds

Norwegian government departments with rss feeds [ALL of them!]

Posted on December 11, 2008
It had to happen one day, and today is that day. My (pointless?) quest to create lists of rss feeds offered by government departments around the world (or Europe, at least) has at last found a winner. Take a bow Norway, who offer feed for EVERY single government department...

Andy & Charlie show tells music industry what they want to hear

Posted on December 11, 2008
Andy Burnham seems to have been finally hooked by the Music Industry and now wants to support calls for extending the term of protection for recorded performances from 50 years. At the moment he is still stopping short of the EU’s proposal to extend it to 95 years, instead calling for “An extension to match [...

Greek government departments with rss feeds

Posted on December 10, 2008
Before listing the couple of sites with feeds, i just wanted to stop to nominate the Ministry of Commerce site as one of the most horrible I have ever seen. Ministry of National Economy [Website] Feeds All http://www.mnec.gr/el/press_office/rss/rss.xml News http://www...

IWF admits Wikipedia blocking counter productive

Posted on December 10, 2008
The Internet Watch Foundation announced today that they have unblocked access to the wikepedia page that contained the image from the Scorpions album cover Virgin Killer. According to the press release from the IWF “Following representations from Wikipedia, IWF invoked its Appeals Procedure and has given careful consideration to the issues involved in this case...

Twitter from the past

Posted on December 09, 2008
It’s competition time on Informationoverlord. For the chance to win absolutely nothing - or as it is Christmas maybe something that I have (and don’t want) - just add your suggestions for tweets from the past. Jesus: “At mount. Getting busy...

Legal publishers start to join the RSS train

Posted on December 08, 2008
They may be coming late to the party, but at long last the legal publishers are starting to add RSS delivery options to their content. The last few months has seen Westlaw UK, Lawtel, PLC and Justis all add feeds. This is good news, and great news if you sign on through individual passwords...

Scorpions album cover - child porn?

Posted on December 08, 2008
A number of sites seem to have picked up this story from Wikinews that a number of the UK’s main ISPs are using filtering software to block access the sites - and in this case Wikipedia entries - that contain material that has been flagged by the Internet Watch Foundation as containing [...

The Sun Never Shines on the Poor

Posted on November 27, 2008
“If I only had a dollar for every song I’ve sung/ I’d catch the next train back to where I live.” - John Fogerty (’Lodi’ - Creedence Clearwater Revival) A bunch of musicians this week sent a video message to prime Minister, Gordon Brown, urging him and the government to support plans by the European Commission [...

Polish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on November 26, 2008
Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego / Minstry of Culture and National Heritage [Website] Feeds Gorace http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/dziennikarze/mkidn_gorace_tematy.xml Aktualnosci http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/dziennikarze/mkidn_aktualnosci.xml Ministerstwo Gospodarki / Ministry of the Economy [Website] Feeds Aktualnosci http://www...

Romanian government departments with rss feeds

Posted on November 26, 2008
Ministerul Apararii / Ministry of Defence [Website] Feeds Stiri si informatii de presa http://www.mapn.ro/cpresa/rss.php Ministerul Educatiei, Cercetarii si Tineretului / Minstry of Education, Research and Youth [Website] Feeds Flux noutati - ultimele articole publicate �n site http://www...

Chitty

Posted on November 25, 2008
Joseph Chitty releases his latest update of his legal book all about contracts. This is the 30th edition of the book, which he first published in 1826. I believe Mr Chitty is a vampire, which explains why he is still writing updates to his book 182 years after he published the first edition...

Lawfirm doesn?t understand internet

Posted on November 21, 2008
I read this morning (thanks Outlaw.com) that US lawfirm Jones Day have launched, what can only be described as, a stupid lawsuit against BlockShopper.com for publishing a link to a Jones Day lawyer profile on their site. Blockshopper describes itself as “a local news and market data service for current and aspiring homeowners, home buyers and [...

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