Friday, August 29, 2008

RSS Feeds

I am waiting on email verification from Bloglines in order to move on to adding feeds. I am torn between how neat it would be to get updates on topics that interest me and fear that this will be more information that I will need to absorb every day and I think I'm at overload already. I already read every day: professional journals, multiple newspapers, several magazines of personal interest, and books for fun---still love those printed pages. I often watch the beginning of the Daily Show and we've started to DVR Craig Ferguson's monologue (those count as news sources, right?) . I get the library comic, Unshelved, sent to my email at home and all kinds of other miscellaneous email information I've subscribed to--from restaurants, theaters, AACPL BookNews, etc. Can I really add more alerts with even more information to my day? Noticed a feed that would alert you to the newest urban legends added to snopes.com--that sounds fascinating. No, No, Mrs. Whatsit! Don't go there! Once I start adding feeds like that I'll never be able to tear myself from the computer to do my job or talk to my family.....

3 comments:

orangerful said...

Are there feeds available from the resources you are already actively reading? I know Unshelved has an RSS feed (I get it sent to my reader instead of my email) and many magazines have websites that feed their articles too (or special "web only" articles).

If bloglines gives you any trouble (someone else said their spam filter was eating the emails) Blogger has an RSS reader application in its "customize" section, and you can get feeds sent to your blog sidebar. Of course, then everyone can see what you're reading...

rhythm rays said...

I could not get on bloglines either. It just never responded to my request for setup. Google Reader seems to be working fine.

Mrs.Whatsit said...

I'm able to set up RSS feeds now using Google Reader. I've set up "Unshelved" as an RSS feed and would be interested in signing up for some library related feeds--anyone have interesting/valuable ones to recommend?