Well Done

This is too cool (Amphetadesk-creator's response to Ed Murray re peccadillos). Now there's another news aggregator I have to give a whirl. And I promised Ernie I'd download Radio. And it's raining writs (and briefs, and oral arguments, and...) still at work. And things keep popping up from Frank. And guests and fathers are descending for the weekend, which will (happily) require interaction with close-range humans over the keyboard and LCD. You'll all keep me up on things until the electronic agents can jump in, won't you?

The Big Questions

Daniel Taylor and an enduring philosophical dilemma (06/03): "If she's nude, how do you know she's Batgirl?" (Wow, and click the "shoes to match" link while you're there.)

Alternatively Speaking

Author Alan M. Schlein (Find It Online: The Complete Guide To Online Research) offers reviews of non-Google search engines, including Daypop, Kartoo and, of course, BuffySearch. [Via The Screen Savers]

RSS Primer; Blogger Pro RSS; Auto-Discovery

Steven Cohen's article on RSS for non-techies is up at llrx. Thanks Steven, we non-librarians appreciate this too.

Hey, and the Blogger Pro RSS generator now works for blog*spot users! So, if you're subscribing here, I suggest updating to http://bgbg.blogspot.com/rss/bgbg.xml, which is RSS v. 0.91 and includes post headings. (I'll leave the Voidstar code in the template for anyone who prefers v. 0.92 and no headings, and/or has no time for this sort of thing.)

Finally, as I understand the RSS auto-discovery talk -- "you can subscribe to an HTML page, and if it has a suitable 'link' element in its 'head', the aggregator will subscribe to the RSS feed it points to" -- I have done the deed to Bag and Baggage. If you are auto-discovering my RSS (will this require local anesthetic?), do let me know that it worked.

"An Anguished Bunch"

Good story about knowledge management software company RecomMind and its management:

"[C.O.O. Derek] Schueren doesn't know much about lawyers. Like everyone else at RecomMind, he's never worked at a firm, or sold to lawyers before, but he believes they are an anguished bunch. 'There's a great amount of knowledge at law firms, and it's frustrating [for lawyers] not to be able to tap into it,' says Schueren."

[Via Law.com]