Thursday, August 4, 2011

RSS feeds

I have had a Google Reader account for a couple of years now. While I love the idea I find I don't open it enough to really keep up with all the blogs I subscribe to. However, when I do have a minute it is nice to go to one place for them. More often though I read a blog when a Twitter comment gets my attention and points me there.

I have also taught a few more advanced classes how to use RSS feeds to push search results to themselves. This has great application for long term projects, though not too useful for the majority of kids who are doing research the night before the project is due. :)

Would love to hear if anyone else is using RSS to push messages out from their libraries. I have not tried that application yet.