Friday, October 12, 2007

#8 RSS and #9

This exercise took a long time. Most of the websites I vist or enjoy did not seem to have an RSS or related feed. Sometimes they had a button, but when I attempted to add to my feeds, was told no feeds were available. One problem solved after viewing the rest of the 'lessons' was that if 2 potential feeds appear, you must choose one.
In some ways I prefer 'ikeepbookmarks' where I store websites I am interested in. I look at these when I am in the mood.
Attempting to find sites of interest gave me information overload. Here we are working in libraries, with thousands of books, papers, archives, and the net has just added to the amount of written material and images to be sifted through. I sometimes think that Henry Miller was right when he said 'read less, not more'. I'm sure most of us pass on with a wish list of books we wanted to read, but simply ran out of time. I started my blog with a haiku, perhaps one of the shortest poetic styles developed. There's something in that.
Anyway I did subscribe to 10 feeds and 3 co-workers blogs after all that.
For #9 I subscribed to some State Library feeds

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