Week 4

I used Feedster to find blogs by gardening enthusiasts. Found a few like '52 weeks in the california garden' and 'gardening club covent garden'. The search also brought up items like 'Bon Jovi and band announce world tour' and 'affordable dentures'!!! The search must have brought up any blog with the word 'garden' in it! Technorati also looked for individual words and brought up lots of unrelated blogs. Do they expect us to do boolean searching???

I found topix.net useful in finding newsfeeds.

I had used the Google blog search before, so I tried that to find something library related, and I found a 'flipfloplibrarian's weblog' on - Library 2.0 and web 2.0 a heathen's thoughts.He says "Life is all about change. We must grow and learn and improve. So what others call “library 2.0,” I call another step in the evolution of the library".


I had heard about RSS feeds, but never got to explore what it was. So it was a good discovery exercise and setting up Bloglines and RSS feeds was much simpler than I had anticipated. It is good to have all the links to our favourite sites together and getting rid of the advertisements is a bonus.I dislike the pop up ads especially.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/USERNAME

Libraries can have RSS feeds to good reading sites from their websites.