[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Urban
Hi Ari, This is just my personal opinion, but may be informative. I do most of my blog reading these days in little snippets of off-time via my iPhone, while on or waiting for the bus, etc.What I've noticed is that I tend to stick to blogs with complete texts on my iPhone and save blogs

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Ari Davidow
Hi Richard, In the end, the chorus of people who preferred to have the entire post in the RSS feed was so strong, primarily in the use case you describe (reading on mobile devices), and the prevalence of using the entire post so common, that we're just going that route. I think that eventually

[MCN-L] History teachers in Ottawa needed for Focus Group

2010-08-26 Thread Kristy Martin
Hi All, I am working with the Canadian Museum of Civilization to conduct a focus group of high school history teachers on what THEY want out of museum internet resources. There will be two groups (one French one English) and they will be held in the Ottawa/Gatineau area on a Monday, Tuesday or

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Hoover, Joseph
I have to agree. I do most of my blog reading from my iPhone on bus rides back and forth to work. I general skip blogs that are truncated, since reading the complete post requires me to switch over to a web browser and leave the RSS reader app. However, that is a personal reading habit, and I

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Ari Davidow
Well, it's the next phase of an ongoing experiment. If you are already subscribed to our feed from http://jwablog.jwa.org (http://feeds.feedburner.com/JWAblog) then you are now getting the whole feed. If you want to check it out, the subscription address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/JWAblog

[MCN-L] Announcing the Keep MCN2010 Green Totebag Contest!

2010-08-26 Thread Museum Computer Network
Dear MCN-L: We need 300 totebags for the MCN 2010 Conference in Austin, Texas, October 27-30. In an effort to stay green and keep conference costs down, I am looking for donations of totebags from your cultural organization or museum. The owner of the winning bag, the one that strikes our