Sunday, May 11, 2008

The end of the (RSS) feed-ing frenzy .....

Good morning, all.
I enjoyed Ellen's comment that I seemed to be having a "very interesting time exploring RSS" - what a broad application that word 'interesting' can have ....
The good news is that on the third attempt I got feeds to appear in Bloglines - was easy once I included the vital step of setting up a "Sub with Bloglines" in Favourites. I set up the following feeds

ABS Blog for Librarians (10) (0)
FOLK AUSTRALIA (10) (0)
NEWS.com.au | Africa (10) (0)
Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day (10) (0)
Tag: Diabetes - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (10)

I tried to set up a feed to the Lonely Planet podcast and videocast but got an 'unspecified error' message so maybe this hardware could not cope with that.
RSS feeds are certainly a great timesaver at an individual level and would be very relevant in a specialist library or in professional development.
I can't see me using RSS feeds in my work unless I got a sudden urge to become more involved in the theory of the profession and needed to be au fait with professional material and posts.
I must confess I didn't really go hunting other library blogs ....

I tried very hard to set up a news feed to this post. There are items showing up but I don't know whether it will automatically update as I would have thought it should .. Anyway I tried!! (the story of my involvement in this course ..!!!)

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