Wendyhoo

Assignment #4

Well, I've now spent a great deal of time pouring through SO MANY feeds. What a blast! I never knew what RSS was, and now I do! Thanks Web 2.0. I've linked RSS feed from the Job Board for specific job categories from which my clients will benefit: an actual reason for me to spend work time on Web 2.0. (Though, admittedly, I'm typing this from home at the moment.)

There were some challenging moments, but mostly, "ah ha!", and, "Oh, that's how you do that". My most challenging moment was not reading the instructions carefully enough and going in circles when I subscribed to my first blog with multiple feeds. Didn't notice I was supposed to check off the feed I wanted. Did that about 3 times before figuring it out!

As for preferred method, so far, it's really just surfing and finding links that I like. Also, I've been going through my bookmarks and finding the RSS feeds. This will be great for keeping on top of informational sites such as job postings.

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, but I was bit underwhelmed by the amount of Can Con in Topix. I finally figured out that I had to go to the international selection to get away from the U.S. feeds. Feedster and Syndic8 were both not coming up. I will try them again another time. Perhaps my home computer is too slow and old fashioned! As for the Bloglines search tool, it's fine but I didn't find it overly useful. Perhaps I need to play with it some more.

This was a fantastic lesson. Now I finally get what all those kids are going on about! :p

Almost caught up. Two more to go....







Create a blog post about your experiences creating a Bloglines account AND using some of these tools to locate newfeeds. Eg. Did you enjoy this exercise or finding it challenging and why? Are there instances in which you think RSS feeds could be useful for your organization? Which methods of finding newsfeeds did you like best and why? Which were hardest to use? Etc.