Thing 5

Oh bloglines, how do I love thee?
You've helped me stay on top of library blogs, technology news, fashion, and now you are helping me organize my wedding! Yay!

I find most of my feeds by hopping around the internet. I'll be reading a blog and see that they've linked to another blog-- so I'll sub to that one! A friend will tell me about a cool site, and I'll sub to it! It is very haphazard and can get cluttery. I try to cull my feeds every few months, deleting the old ones I no longer read.

here are some of my favorite feeds at the moment:
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
http://jezebel.com/

Thing 4

OH bloglines. How I love thee!

Anyhow! RSS!!
One of the cool things is now RSS can be used to deliver content to folks- by pushing out updates, people can get the latest news without leaving their bloglines account or igoogle or netvibes page.
One of the things our IT Director did was create these cool feeds that push out the latest titles in our catalog:
http://fergusonblog.org/anewbooksrss.htm

Now our site can be updated automatically with the latest books! Staff aren't required to update the page, and patrons will get the most up to date content. It's a win win situation!