Week 8 - RSS, Newsreaders

Thing 13 - RSS feeds and newsreaders

I used Digg Reader to subscribe to the blogs of my classmates. Fascinating. I like the concept, but I don't love everything about it. Remember a long time ago when if you wanted to talk to someone, you had to and when if you wanted information you had to look for it?

I do not look at or read probably 3/4 (75%) of the information I am sent. This is just another way to fill up an inbox with information I won't access. It would be a useful tool as a librarian to keep on top of new books, etc. if I had time to filter through it. But it's like picking Legos out of the vacuum bag. At first I do it because the pieces are useful and I don't want any piece to be lost. However, after weeks of filtering them through the hairballs, dust and unidentifiable particles, having to wash them and then find the Lego bucket to house them, I'm over it. It is likely that the Deathstar will never be able to be built because I've tossed that one essential piece, but it saved me time from having to look through everything I don't want to get what I do.

Thing 14 - Finding library blogs and newsfeeds

Blogs I added:
The New York Review of Books - I love New York so it seemed a natural.
New Yorker's Page-Turner - Did I mention that I greatly care for New York?
The Rumpus - Where the Wild Things Are. Anther book blog with various authors.
 Bookslut - What's in a name?


Speaking of what is in a name, I also added Information Literacy Weblog by Sheila Webber. It seems with a last name like Webber, one would be predisposed to use the web as a means of expression. Sort of like how Mark Hacking hacked up his wife or Lorainna Bobbit ... you can look it up, but it's fitting.

Once again, I added the blogs and I'll get updates, but until librarian is my main life-focus, I will probably not delve into much of the information I get.