Cheating in RSS Feed Subscriptions?

Everybody knows the importance of lists and rankings. Or maybe I should rephrase that into "People just love lists and rankings". The lists itself are not important, but the relative positioning of Scientists, Journals, Universities, Companies and even Bloggers or Twitterers amongst their "competitors" gives their presence a visual positioning. Everybody wants to find its right place in the world. To show off that what théy do is being measured as valuable. The number of sites to calculate the hard currency value of your web presence are growing rapidly! The position can be shown easily everywhere, and can be used for many purposes. It is pretty normal to put those counters and banners all over your blog (and I do it too). By accident I experienced that a brand new Feedburner count, had 100+ subscribers within a day! The New Books RSS feed from the Central Medical Library actually got those counts because I added it to the CMB QuickSearch Library Toolbar! The count is scanned once a day, and in fact values each and every Toolbar active in any browser at that time. By channeling my blog feed through Feedburner and replacing that feed into our Library Toolbars (we also have a special Student Library Toolbar) my Feedburner count for the blog changed within 2 days from 140 into 348. The stats of the Feed show that a great part of them come from "Outlook 2007"!? There is a statement that says: "This number may be inflated, since some requests from Internet Explorer 7 also identify themselves in this manner" What does this mean? Are this the Toolbars open in Internet Explorer 7? I can not imagine that much people read my feed in Outlook. More info on "cheating"with Feedburner counts

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Updates from Journal Apps (BrowZine, docwise, ReadbyQxMD, Docphin)

Here a short overview of all new updates around the Journal apps we are supporting. Personally I am most excited about the anouncements of " docwise " making big steps to keep up with BrowZine & Read (Integration -"Open in"- with Dropbox, Evernote and more, save and email full text articles), but making a hug jump with unique features, like shareable Folders with docwise users ánd a RSS reader feature (boldly called Google Reader replacement!). Bring it on! BrowZine : just published the Android Version of their App to which the CMB UMCG now has a subscription. To be downloaded from Google Play Store or Amazon App Store the following publishers have been added Project MUSE Cambridge University Press American Marketing Association Academy of Management Royal Society of Chemistry Institute of Physics American Physical Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) American Geophysical Union International Society for Optics a...

KOPERNIO extension to find PDF's : plus Open Access button, Unpaywall, Google Scholar and Connect UPDATED!

UPDATE: Clarivate Analytics Acquires Research Startup Kopernio to Accelerate Pace of Scientific Innovation I am currently testing 4 browser extensions in Chrome that can help me find the PDF i need. They seem to be popping up like dandelions in the fields ;-) (Please read my post on ALL possible options to get to a PDF: http://digicmb.blogspot.nl/2017/03/how-to-get-pdf-infographic.html ) Here is a first glance of what they do. For testing i used this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.008 (not free or open access) Kopernio (previously Canary Haz ( http://kopernio.com) Note this is a .com extension. This new company has been founded just 8 months ago. The Kopernio extension was released just in March 2017. Currently the Kopernio button is in alpha-testing and so far it seems free. The previous name appeared to be a tribute to the #ICANHAZPDF movement (requesting pdf's via Twitter with this hashtag). ...

Make RSS feed from any Facebook Page

You could ask why on earth do you want that.... Well, simply to insert the feed into a feed reader or make all posts/updates available in an "aggregator" like Rebelmouse.com. With Rebelmouse you can create your own social media Frontpage (and blog) based on various social media accounts, searches AND RSS feeds. ( More on Rebelmouse and the power of curation ) Say I want to add Facebook posts ánd images from the page Inuit Art Zone into a Rebelmouse I made about Inuit Art . Rebelmouse offers to add My Pages via my facbook account, but other pages can only be entered via RSS. You only need TWO things : the base url string for the RSS feed: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id= the Facebook ID of the page: Find the Facebook (Page) ID Add the ID at the end of the url string and you have a complete working RSS feed! For Inuit Art Zone the RSS feed would be: http://www.facebook.com/fee...

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