Saturday, March 15, 2008
RSS Feeds
I have subscribed to a few RSS feeds. However, one of them (ABC Online ~ Local area news) is way out of date, with nothing new on the feed since 2007. This is a bit of a trap for beginners. How to determine the usefulness of the feed for your needs & how to determine the validity of the information? I guess it is just like assessing the value of a reference book! PASTA (See mnemonics post).
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Well, now I knoe a little bit more about this component of Web 2.0. Have been looking at Google reader & have set up a folder with a "blog" list of all our library staff. I think this will make it easier than checking each one individually! I think having news feeds on Google reader will be better for me than using Bloglines, simply because it puts everything on the one starting point ie Google.
I could see an RSS feed being a way of setting up a virtual "BookClub" with a library service blog to announce a book to be discusssed, and then public / staff participation to discuss the book on line.
Also added Blog search button to my toolbar - instant library information from a number of Blogs. Wow, the housework / shelving will never get done now!
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