The wonderful thing about blogs is that I can re-edit what I wrote after I had a chance to ponder. Of course, there's no posterity involved and I can deny I ever wrote such things - especially if I was in a foul mood when I posted the blog. Let's talk about RSS feeds, shall we?
RSS feeds remind me of the season pass manager on Tivo. I get that concept :)
Here are some I subscribed to:
Astronomy Picture Of The Day
BBC News
Librarians' Index To The Internet
National Geographic News
Scopes
Sky And Telescope
Unshelved
as well as my fellow coworkers blogs.
I have to admit to being thrown off of the interface of bloglines but I believe it's just because I am not used to it. I can see using this professionally and personally - but I would need to remember to check. I'm pretty bad about checking my personal email (averaging once a week or so) so I would need to add this to that to-do list. I did see that you could have these emailed to you but seeing an inbox with that many messages would probably lead to me ignoring it more :)
I am thrilled though that the Librarians' Index To The Internet has a feed - I check this out every time I think of it and I can see how it would help me keep up with websites I could use to refer patrons to at the reference desk. Feeds (and I see we have those) at the library could be used to alert patrons of new titles at the library, reader's advisory blogs (here's where a personal account of a title would be great), and your library funding news (especially if your library could use the funds). Up to date information about local issues affecting your library.
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