I didn't have too much trouble with this excercise. I've been a regular user of RSS for sometime although I have preferred Google reader to Bloglines. The really cool thing I discovered was that I could export all my feeds from Google Reader into a file and import them into Bloglines. Too easy.
I then used the share feature to send my blogroll straight into the sidebar of my blog. Unfortunatley it looked fugly as I had far too many feeds there. I decided to trim the list down a bit.
Reading my feeds is a daily activity for me. I follow a number of book and library related blogs as well as technology & web info. I also track some eBay searches and forums with RSS. My list of feeds can seem overwhelming, but I don't always read everything. If I'm too busy I just click "mark all as read" for the feeds that are less important to me.
A simple use of RSS in libraries would be to keep users informed about upcoming events and other useful information.
A brilliant use of RSS by libraries would be to have feeds for new books added to the collection. For example, it would be great if I was able to do a search for "Tim Winton" and on the results page click an RSS button so that I am notified whenever a new Tim Winton book is added to the collection. Simple as that. How cool would it be?
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
#5 - flickr
For this exercise, we have two options: post a pic to flickr or find a pic & blog about it. I don't have a camera with me at work today so I'll take the second option.
I decided to the flickr's "blog this" function. It makes you write the blog post within flickr so I'm not exactly sure how it will organise the layout, although I seem to recall it asking if I wanted to set a layout template when I linked my blog to my flickr account. I guess we'll see what happens.
I chose a picture of the Children's section of the Seattle Central Library taken by flickr user brewbooks. I visited the library earlier this year and thought the kid's section was pretty cool. Lots of computers for them with signs saying they were for kids only.
I decided to the flickr's "blog this" function. It makes you write the blog post within flickr so I'm not exactly sure how it will organise the layout, although I seem to recall it asking if I wanted to set a layout template when I linked my blog to my flickr account. I guess we'll see what happens.
I chose a picture of the Children's section of the Seattle Central Library taken by flickr user brewbooks. I visited the library earlier this year and thought the kid's section was pretty cool. Lots of computers for them with signs saying they were for kids only.
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