Thing # 3 : RSS Feeds

I had never set up any RSS feeds before, but I have heard of how they work and I recognized the symbol. I started by adding startribune.com, Unshelved, a co-worker's blog, a couple MN library sites, and what else, my geocaching pal sir_zman's blog. I let 'er rip for a couple of days and checked the feed a few times. I received over 100 feeds from the startribune, a few from Unshelved, and that's it.

I can see this being very useful for the sites that post new content daily or less frequently, but the large amount of posts from a news site just are too much for me. I think I'll keep my subscription to all but the startribune for now. I think it would be very valuable to have RSS feeds available from our website or library blog. We'd want our users to get our updates asap.

I am subscribed in a similar way to a few sources. I get weather alerts by email, and I get emails when a website from a non-profit web magazine I used to work for posts it's new issue. Those emails work the same way, except it's a link in my email instead of a post. I believe both of these tools are very valuable to me when I want to keep informed.