What a hot day today! Good for staying inside and learning about RSS and newsreaders.
Thing # 8 required that we get to know a little bit about RSS feeds or Really Simple Syndication, create a Bloglines newsreader account and subscribe to a few feeds.
I’m not completely new to RSS, because I have a list of feeds that I access through Internet Explorer 7, so I check those everyday. I like that I don’t have to go to all the different websites to get the news I want, instead the content has been aggregated in one place thanks to RSS. How did we ever live without it (and I truly mean that!).
There were one or two feeds that I couldn’t subscribe to with IE, so I had looked briefly at freely available newsreaders a while ago, Bloglines being one. I soon got bogged down with other things. However, I was determined to return! And I’m glad 23 things has given me the opportunity to. My reaction to Bloglines, is that it is easy to sign up, subscribe to
and organise feeds. It’s great that you can subscribe to flickr photo sets and news sites (I added ninemsn news and ABC news) along with blogs, which you can’t do with Internet Explorer’s functionality.
I may end up deleting most of my blog feeds in Bloglines though, because I find IE convenient for this, but certainly for other types of news, I would use it.
I think libraries would find RSS useful, to keep clients updated on the latest news, new materials, and as a way for clients to create profiles of their interests, favourite books, subjects and authors so that when relevant information becomes available, this can be pushed to them.
I have made my blogroll publicly available at http://www.bloglines.com/public/Dan-G.
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