Teaching 2.0

One of the tasks for the CJRLC Tech Challenge is to teach some 2.0-ish stuff to someone else.  In 2 weeks I’ll be teaching several staff members at MPOW about blogging, but in the meantime I thought I’d write about some more impromptu teaching I did not long ago.  I was happily minding my own [...]

Taking Netvibes for a Spin

Early on in this blog I waxed poetic about Bloglines, my trusty feed reader.  However, enough people were telling me about using other newer, better aggreagators that I started to get nervous.  Some of my subscriptions weren’t coming through — was it the site’s fault, Bloglines’s fault or my own?  I couldn’t quite tell, and [...]

The Wondrous, Wondrous World of RSS: Part II

In my last post I discussed how RSS feeds are used to subscribe to the content of websites.  How can libraries use RSS feeds to better serve their customers?
 Since becoming an RSS convert last summer, I have found myself getting increasingly annoyed at sites that do not offer RSS feeds.  At this point, it’s simply [...]

The Wondrous, Wondrous World of RSS: Part I

Once upon a time, about a year and a half ago, I read something about RSS feeds but balked at installing something new on my desktop.  I then forgot all about it, and happily went about my way on the Internet, visiting all my favorite sites everyday, hoping there would be new content.  Everything seemed [...]