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December 7, 2004
Mozilla Firefox Live Bookmarks
Mozilla's Firefox browser has the capability to recognize a webpage that is pushing out an RSS feed, such as blogs and news sources. If you go to such a page, look for the image on the bottom righthand corner of the browser window. It looks like this: 
Your first thought is probably "How is this different from any old bookmark?" The idea is that you can go to your bookmarks and see if there is a new headline from the live bookmarked blog or news feed and if you see one, and want to read it right then, you click it. I think for faculty tracking student blog posts, it's an easy way to aggregate your student blogs and keep an eye out for new entries.
Here is what it would look like. I went to the NY Times homepage and it had the RSS image in the lower righthand corner. I pointed my mouse over it to display "Add Live Bookmark for this page's feed," clicked it and selected "Subscribe to 'RSS'" which puts that page into my Live Bookmarks. As new stories are pushed out, my Live Bookmark picks them up and when up go to my bookmarks and select the NY Times bookmark. It looks like this [I made this a pop-up because of its size so you may need to allow pop-ups in your browser to see it]. Now I just click a headline and I'm displaying the story.
Get Mozilla Firefox 1.0 so you can try this feature out.
Posted by stuartg at December 7, 2004 7:24 AM