Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Thing #3 - a dangerous, distracting Thing

I have spent a fair amount of time on this one, and will probably spend even more time once I get home. RSS feeds are dangerous - sometimes it's better NOT to know what all is going on around you; I am now mere clicks away from overwhelming amounts of information about the slightest thing that catches my fancy. And my fancy is caught quite easily. Ah well. With that said, in general it was fun. I had some trouble at first, but once that smoothed out I managed to waste all my time browsing around. I haven't actually read that many of my subscriptions - I'll save that for when I'm at home.
So, I can see how it would be easy to keep up-to-date on what different libraries are doing, as well as on your own personal obsessions (I found more than one joss whedon related feed, and I haven't even tried looking for favorite author things). I'm not completely sure how media specialists and what-not might use it, not being entirely sure what all their jobs entail; however, I'm sure it makes finding up-to-date info on any topic easier.
I haven't experimented yet with different tools for finding feeds - so far just what was available on my page. Perhaps I will have brilliant discoveries to share later.
Over and out.

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