Thing #7 RSS feeds

Took a while to work out RSS because if I wanted to add a blog feed while I was working at home, it automatically added it to my Favourites on Internet Explorer because it has a feed reader built in, rather than using Bloglines which is what we are meant to do.
Now I know that if I click on the RSS icon, then copy the resulting url address, I can enter that in the box in the Bloglines subscribe page.
Not sure how useful these will be for work. I find that I have plenty to read daily without more!
However, it will be good for the Any Questions operator blog, The Fitch, and the NSLWeb 2.0 programme.
This technology would be a great service to send patrons new book reviews like PLCMC library system does (when somebody writes them on a regular basis!!) or events as they are announced.


I found that I was looking out for the RSS logo on blogs I visit regularly and subscribed to a couple this way.
Of the sites to search for blogs, I found technorati quite interesting, but with a very US bias. Syndic8.com looked less sophisticated but I quite liked that as there was a lot less to read through. I clicked on a country flag to see feeds from a particular country, but there were only 7 and it took ages to load, so not that successful.

I used Bloglines itself to search for blogs - I clicked what interested me and it added blogs to my list. I only thought one was useful though and unsubscribed from the rest.

This is one of those things that I will use more as I become more familiar with how it works and the advantages there are.