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If you would like to stay abreast of the latest happenings on CTCVISTA.org, here's a few tweaks to manage being kept up to date on the happening's here. *NOTE: these are pretty Google reliant, though perhaps there are other services offering the same functionality? 1) Webclips in GMail. …read more

NOTE: I did NOT write this post. I found it on Robin Good's post: How To Create A RSS Feed From Any Web Page (you can scroll to the bottom of this post for the link if you like. …read more

Firefox is currently the most popular (http://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/by_popularity) tool in SSC, so it's pretty big news that Firefox 2.0 was released yesterday. I updated my version yesterday afternoon and so far it's been working great for me. More importantly, I haven't noticed any problems with SSC since I've been using it, although I will still be doing more testing. Along with the launch of Firefox 2.0, there has been an increase in activity among blogs and bookmarking sites listing add-ons for Firefox, most of which I've encorporated in Firefox's Useful Links field (http://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/show/51/support). …read more

"There's newsfeeds on the starboard bow! Starboard bow! Starboard bow!" <ahem>   (If you don't get the joke, click here).   Anyway, I've been spending much of my time recently having fun with RSS. Much of what I'm doing is searching for information around the web that I can aggregate onto Social Source Commons, and naturally blogs are very helpful to this task, as are the official websites for the tools. I've also been signing up for Google Alerts, and getting e-mail whenever a new hit on Google results for my search terms. …read more