Monday, November 22, 2010

RSS feeds

I actually think that RSS feeds are one of the aspects of web 2.0 which have the most direct application to libraries.  I have noticed this since doing the feeds and plan to actually subscribe to some in my normal working role.   Not sure which yet.  I actually subscribed to one before I noticed that there was a cost involved and quickly un subscribed again.  This is one of the things about the net which I am not so comfortable with.

I think I will discover the feeds I want as I trawl through the net looking for things for my work, although I don't tend to surf so much as search the net. 

The other thing that I have discovered is that not all interesting sites have feeds and I have actually ended up putting a lot more sites in my favorites to go back and look at.  So now I have to figure out a way to manage my favorites file!  Learning never ends

So what have I subscribed to you ask?  I have had a look at a few of my hobby's and subscribed to those as well as to the training one and some of the sites of my fellow students (of web 2.0).  I am not subscribing to all the blogs, just the ones I am particularly interested in as I am going to eventually look through all of the blogs of the participants. I have also included a couple of library sites including state library and the movember site of one of my colleagues.  I had a bit of a mental blank when looking for feeds - as usually happens. 

I must confess to finding other library blogs a bit dry.  I think the best example I have  seen so far is the book club site from my fellow students blogs - so onya to you :)

XXX
Harry

2 comments:

  1. Glad you are sticking with the course Harry and managing to make sense of it all :) Well done!

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  2. I agree the book club blog is great, and could definitely see something like that being used for patrons.

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