Week 4: RSS and Newsreaders

4.8 Have created a Bloglines account and currently have 1397 feeds. I would recommend RSS feeds to researchers and students who wish to keep up-to-date with recent postings about a particular topic of interest but if used without discrimination it can become just another overloaded email account to read and check.

4.9. Subscriptions to various library blogs such as librarian.net and the shifted librarian are okay but I prefer to read the new technology related feeds (e.g. TechCrunch and Silicon Valley Insider)to find out the latest on new social software and how social networking is being used. I am sure there are many more interesting and useful blogs to follow. I have also found it very easy to just subscribe to Google Alerts using terms such as "information literacy" or "information skills" to keep up-to-date with recent posts in areas of interest.