Inside the Barrell!

Inside the Barrell!

Week 4 of Learning 2.0 looks at RSS feeds.

What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? I found Bloglines very difficult to follow and unpleasant to deal with. However things were looking easier after about five tries so it was good the exercise got me to go that far.

What sites did you select for your RSS reader?
Blog of a Bookslut (1) (0)Dictionary.com Word of the Day (0) (0)Genealogy Librarian News (0) (0)Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week (0) (0)Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day (0) (0)The Shifted Librarian (0) (0)

How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work? I think I hate Blogs and Newsfeeds. Who needs stuff getting fed at you. I say go looking when you need stuff and you're interested. Flicking through a paper is a luxury these day. Blogs that were genuine digests would be good to find, but mostly they increase rather than decrease info overload.

How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology? If they can get users to subscribe to feeds they can be good ways to keep them informed on 'what's on'. Special libraries could provide digests of useful info for their clients but it's harder for public libraries with broad and unpredictable clientele.

Did you find any good examples of other library blogs? One user's meat is another user's poison so goodness is really about relevance - relevance arises in an interactive relationship with feedback to finetune requirements -

Diogenes

Inside the Barrell!

Inside the Barrell!

The Rome Pantheon in the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome.

Diogenes travels from Athens to Rome in this episode.

The Piazza della Rotonda was where Diogenes' 21st century avatar stayed when he was in Rome in 2007. It was enjoyable to look through the many photos in flickr of this edifice. This one was selected for showing the nightlife of the piazza, where ancient meets modern.

It was hard for Diogenes to find a place to put his barrell among all the hawkers and beggars and wanderers who populate this popular area!

Diogenes

Greetings from The Barrell! What bottom scrapings can we share today? This is a Learning II experience. Yes, we weather-beaten Original Cynics can give it a go (even if we haven't discovered the decimal point yet).
Ah what indeed is the point of it all! I wonder what other philosophers of the bibliotechnical (pardon the Greek) world have to say in this Electronic Alexandria.
OK even us crusty old barrell-bottom-dwellers are starting to enjoy this learning experience.
Next week we get to see the bigger picture.