More on RSS

I have now managed to go public and my URL is:
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/Librarypolyanna
I am enjoying using Bloglines and particularly like the Financial Times book reviews, which are quick and easy to skim to see if they are of interest. Similarly, getting news feeds in the form of headlines is so time-saving as you're not so tempted to read articles of minimal interest.
Setting it up was quite easy - once a colleague had shown me how! I had a look at Technorati and Topix, but preferred to choose my own feeds.
We are so snowed under with information these days and RSS feeds are a brilliant way to manage your own information needs. This is something that I will definitely use in my personal life, and also as a way of keeping up to date with the book scene for work.

RSS adventures

Right, blog set up, now to get down to RSS feeds. It was a bit of a headache and I even managed to subscribe a colleague to a National Library feed ( don't ask how I got into her bloglines account - I have no idea) and then found the site was blocked when I tried to subscribe for myself. However, today all is working well and I've set up some interesting feeds including some from my fellow bloggers. One interesting thing I came across was the The Times (of London), does not supply RSS feeds - how archaic is that!

Getting started at last.

I haven't got very far with my blog because I haven't known what to write - but here goes. The library is noisy and happy today with lots of little ones joining in the holiday programme. They're busy being creative and making mobiles. Some older children have settled in at the computers to play games, while our more mature patrons have retired to the quiet corners to read in peace. We had an important visitor this morning and had muffins for tea. Thank goodness that we're so busy and constantly running around or the kilos would pile on with all the cakes we have for visitors, birthdays and any other excuse! Can't wait to do the next lesson and learn about RSS.