Thing 8: I like RSS and newsreaders because I find the amount of information available overwhelming and spending time on the computer extremely time consuming. This will hopefully get you to what you want to read faster. I already found lists of summer reading at Education World and lists of top book choices that will help with my book ordering. I can see libraries using the RSS feeds to highlight the latest in news, sports,etc. but I am curious to see the many other ways that this will be used. In using it more and more myself, I then may become more familiar with it to think of some ways on my own!
Thing 9: I went ahead and set up an account using Bloglines and then chose some of the url’s that were listed. I then added the Vt 23 things participant’s blog page and then tried to add specific parts of the Burlington Free Press: sports, local news, and top breaking stories. I had to go to the Free Press site and click on News Reads and then copy and paste the URL into the Bloglines subscribe box to add to my list.
