Well, I’ve just spent the afternoon looking at many sites and subscribing to just a few of them. I’m very interested in how RSS works and the ease of having information come to you instead of the other way around. That’s why I wanted to work on this lesson to post to begin with. Anyway, I’ve read all the links again and they do have a wealth of info. Still like the Plain English one, but the preetamrai.com was quite good-lots of detail on what you can do.
Theoretically, I can subscribe to different library sites and keep up with the newest and greatest. Even though this is a time saver, it still takes time to read everything coming in. I guess you just have to try and budget for it but not get too caught up and spend hours reading articles and posts.
I’m looking forward to getting more RSS feeds on our website for our patrons. The hard part will be to get them to know about and want to subscribe to them.
It’s amazing what’s out there.
1 Comment
October 31, 2007 at 11:07 pm
I think that managing RSS input is a skill that can be learned and practiced, just like any kind of research. Being able to skim through a feed list with hundreds of posts and pick out the handful that are really worthwhile comes with experience…just like culling through hits in a search engine or database results for the right piece of information.
-Garrett