RSS in GovernmentNews about how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local governmentsFresh Patents Served Weekly- December 6, 2004 You can search for newly published patent applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but if you want the latest patent applications served to you by RSS syndication and email alerts, you'll need to visit FreshPatents.com. Industry list RSS feeds filtered by USPTO class number are particularly valuable. The content is crawled and indexed by Google as well.http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000137.html HubMed is PubMed on Steroids- December 6, 2004 If you're one who monitors the latest news about a drug or treatment, or if you're doing serious medical research, you'll absolutely love the assortment of alerts and exporting features provided by HubMed, an alternative search to the PubMed medical literature database.http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000136.html Blog Revolution in China- December 3, 2004 While the government may not be enthusiastic over offering RSS news feeds, the Chinese people themselves are embracing RSS news syndication in the form of blogging. NewScientist.com reports that despite official censorship of blogs in 2003, blog services are now sprouting all over China. By the end of October 2004, China had more than 45 large blog-hosting services. According to China's biggest blogging service provider blogcn.com, the number of subscribers has soared from 10,000 in June last.http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000135.html California a Dollar Short, a Day Late- December 1, 2004 State CIO J. Clark Kelso wants to make government more accessible to the citizens of California. His November "California State Information Technology Strategic Plan" presented to Governor Schwarzenegger provides a blue-print for providing greater efficiences in IT services, offering more accessible service, and doing it for lower costs. What's missing The plan neglects RSS, a low-cost, open source technology that many states are using to save money and make their services more...http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000134.html Blog -- Dictionary Word of the Year- December 1, 2004 Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's reports that "Blog" tops their list of the 10 words of the year. Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was the most looked-up word on its Internet sites this year. The list is compiled each year by taking the most researched words on its Web sites and then excluding perennials such as affecteffect and profanity..http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000133.html Are you Chief Blogging Officer Material- December 1, 2004 Does your state or agency have a Chief Blogging Officer Government is already rife with chiefs, why not one more HighBeam Research, Inc. has set the pace by announcing today the appointment of Christopher Locke as its Chief Blogging Officer (CBO). HighBeam also announces a pilot program offering a select group of bloggers exclusive use of its new "blog this document" tools and free access to the company's premium archives.http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000132.html Feeding the Utah Legal Community- December 1, 2004 The Utah Administrative Office of the Courts and the Utah State Bar have been experimenting with the syndication of news and publications for quite some time. They've now published links to their first public syndicated feeds on their homepages.http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000131.html |