Week 8-RSS and Newsreaders

Thing 13
1. Read so you will understand what Bloglines is. Check.

2. Create a Bloglines account. Check.

3. Add our learning 2.0 blog as a feed. Check.

4. Go to Google news and create a search on something you find interesting. Check.

5. Remember Flickr? You can also subscribe to people's photographs so every time they post new photos you'll get them automatically! Check

Thing 14

1. Try out a blog or feed search engine or two and find additional blogs to subscribe to. Check.

2. Explore one of the lists to see if they point you to additional blogs. Check

3. Create a blog post on your personal blog about your RSS feed search and subscription experience.

First I didn't know that Google had a subscription feed at the bottom of the news search. I think that is pretty neat. Second, I love RSS feeds, they are so simple. It is nice to be a follower of a blog and be notified if they have added something new without having to go and check on it. Now I specifically tried to find blogs on library technology or school librarians. What I found was, A. I don't like blogsearchengine.com and B. There are some cool librarians who are doing all the stuff we have talked about in class. They are spreading information about libraries to the world. The 2 blogs that I am now a follower of is 1. librarywebhead it is a librarian who has posted articles and things that she has learned from conferences on technology in the library. She covers topics like webdesign and having your patrons try using technology things that you have designed to see if they are user friendly. The blog posts are a bit long but they have a ton of information. 2. Ilibrarian this is a neat site that has blog titles like Amazing Facts about Instant Messaging and Google to Digitize anciant Italian books. I like this site because it looks like a "what is happeneing with libraries and technology" while the first blog is more about how to use technology in your library. I think that subscribing to RSS feeds of blogs and other sites is one of the easiest ways for librarians to keep up with what is going on with technology. That is why RSS feeds and knowing how to use them can be so important for librarians. Check.