Discover RSS Feeds

If this exercise has done nothing else, it has reinforced how much I am enjoying personalising everything I do online. I love the idea of being able to define the news or info you want to receive, and just leave out the rest. The currency is very appealing, and delivery via RSS feed seems so much neater and more sophisticated than the prospect of a gazillion emails, and , you can just look at them is you want to or not if you don't.



I realise that I already have and look at various RSS feeds, without really knowing it. Am still coming to grips with the variety of RSS feeds can arrive. Bloglines is fine, and I don't mind having them in my IE favourites, and I also quite like the odd feed added as a gadget to my i-google page. Haven't explored Google Reader at this stage, but it might suit me more than Bloglines because it is a click away. One of my good friends uses Bloglines to receive new recipes via RSS. She and I both like feeds about new books and movies. We also both have girl children, so some of our feeds are inevitably 'Twilight' blogs.....



I added various sites to my Bloglines list:

Librarians' Internet Index

The Shifted Librarian

librarian.net
Curious expeditions (my fave - beautiful libraries of the world)

OPAL training

ABC and BBC news feeds, and the Guardian and New York Times reviews of books.


At work, I can see how RSS could be useful for sending news of new available titles (great for selection), and useful websites (good for compiling links or finding and verifying info). These things already come to me, but arrive as an emailed list from time to time. I would definitely prefer the feed. Our library could and already does have an RSS option on a number of blogs. I think the exhibitions blog or something similar is a great way to engage and remind audiences about library activities. The summer reading club blog is also a nice little way to encourage participation from kids, wherever thay are.