Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Week 4 Task #8


Well after some very entertaining times, we have discovered that it's actually not us doing something WRONG with Bloglines that's creating the problem - it's our blessed security software at work! Thus the fact that it is now some ridiculous hour at home and I am busy playing with feeds. Oh well. Bloglines is very interesting and I'm very pleased that I can pop RSS links into my own Blogger blog also. I couldn't see the tab to make it public, so have included a small screenshot of the feeds I have subscribed to.
Plenty of applications for this technology in a public library - people can subscribe to our blogs (for instance, latest events or new items in the library), we can set up feeds to sites we think people might want to check out, etc. etc. For myself, I've subscribed to a large number of extremely frivolous sites. So for right now, it seems like a new way to spend even more time online doing frivolous things, but now that I actually know what that RSS button does, I will see where it takes me!

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