Saturday, August 21, 2010

Feed me!

RSS feeds are another of my favourite Web 2.0 tools. I love having updates sent to my reader without having to go to each site to see if anything has changed.

I subscribe to many RSS feeds. My favourites are Library Link of the Day (which I used to receive via email), Miss Information's blog, Arts & Letters Daily, Merriam-Webster Word of the Day and any of the numerous ones from Library Journal and School Library Journal.

For pure fun and interest, I also subscribe to Mathematical Fiction and Mathematics in Movies.


BlogLines is another reader that I use. It has a great collection of feeds to get you started. For someone working in libraryland like me, it was easy to start with their "Quick Pics" lists for "Books" (Guardian Unlimited Books, New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly Best Sellers, USAToday.com Books) and "Libraries" (Librarian.net, Library Stuff, Resource Shelf, Shifted Librarian). Once I got started, I removed the ones that weren't of interest to me and added others. (Look under "What interests you?" and then select "more" from the BlogLines introductory pages.)

I have shifted most of me feeds over to Google Reader as I'm experimenting with organizing all my tools in one location by adding gadgets to my iGoogle page. I love all these tools but hate having to go to so many sites to access them.

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