Sunday, June 14, 2009
RSS feeds continued
I have seen in the last week that RSS feeds can be a great way to keep up with information in fields that you are interested in. The trick is identifying which blogs/sites one wishes to keep up with. I guess that's a matter of trial and error. I've found some LIS (Library and Information Science) ones interesting, and at home I'm keeping my eye on a couple of personal ones also.
I noticed also on some blogs that you can not only keep up with posts by the blogger, but with comments that may be added by others after you have read the blog, and which may add supporting or contrary opinions.
Will have to consult others this week about adding Page 2RSS to my browser toolbar ... perhas getting help via See'n'share, which is hte next brick in the 23 road. but I've added it to my favourites and managed to get it to work, notifying me of changes to a page that had no built in RSS link.
Will have to think about the suggested questions to blog about ... am just glad to have got as far as this!
I noticed also on some blogs that you can not only keep up with posts by the blogger, but with comments that may be added by others after you have read the blog, and which may add supporting or contrary opinions.
Will have to consult others this week about adding Page 2RSS to my browser toolbar ... perhas getting help via See'n'share, which is hte next brick in the 23 road. but I've added it to my favourites and managed to get it to work, notifying me of changes to a page that had no built in RSS link.
Will have to think about the suggested questions to blog about ... am just glad to have got as far as this!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Second post: Topic 4 -- RSS feeds
Well, it has been a log time between posts ... life has got in the way to some extent. However, I've re-jigged my planning as to when I'm going to do this, and hope to be a Better Blogger.
I've been doing this RSS feeds thing and have followed John Nebauer's advice and added way too many .. but I'll prune them, as he suggested, once I see which ones seem to take up too much brain time for the amount of payoff. I do see the usefulness of having the content come to me, rather than my having to seek it out, maintain a list of bookmarks, weed out the ones that are not so active, use them on ohter computers, etc etc.
My feeds are mainly from library related sites (other 23 things people, the ones suggested in the notes and a couple I found by myself) but I'll branch out and add a couple of general 'new technology" ones or ones related to program areas once I get better at finding what look like useful ones.
I'll be roaming other people's blogs bit by bit, looking for what you have discovered. Don't be offended if you are not on my 'followed' sites yet, I ran out of time, but would like to connect with others, as it is amazing at times what others see that one does not. For that matter, add a comment of you find something fab that you want to share ... please!
I've been doing this RSS feeds thing and have followed John Nebauer's advice and added way too many .. but I'll prune them, as he suggested, once I see which ones seem to take up too much brain time for the amount of payoff. I do see the usefulness of having the content come to me, rather than my having to seek it out, maintain a list of bookmarks, weed out the ones that are not so active, use them on ohter computers, etc etc.
My feeds are mainly from library related sites (other 23 things people, the ones suggested in the notes and a couple I found by myself) but I'll branch out and add a couple of general 'new technology" ones or ones related to program areas once I get better at finding what look like useful ones.
I'll be roaming other people's blogs bit by bit, looking for what you have discovered. Don't be offended if you are not on my 'followed' sites yet, I ran out of time, but would like to connect with others, as it is amazing at times what others see that one does not. For that matter, add a comment of you find something fab that you want to share ... please!
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