Week 4 - Item 8 RSS Feeds

I am so thankful to finally learn about RSS Feeds. I have been seeing the symbol and the initials all over the place so it is now good to understand what RSS is all about. I selected Bloglines to investigate and arranged an account. It took some tinkering and I am not really sure I found feeds I would want to continually read but the process is interesting.

Last week I installed Office 2007 so I was also able to set up RSS Feeds to open in Outlook. That seemed to be a more convenient process for me since it saves going to another place to look for information. I was also successful, after some play, in adding our district RSS feed to Bloglines. So now I can add an outside source that does not list Bloglines if I am interested.

One of the concerns I have is keeping up with everything. There is so much information out there and I can see it as hard to regularly follow the feeds.

An application I am thinking of for the library is for public access for students to find articles for Current Event class requirements. Students come to the library, waste all sorts of time and often miraculously find an article to print at the last second of the period. If feeds of science and news sources were available then the process might move more efficiently. It is something to look into.