Week 4 saw us looking at RSS Aggregators /Feeds, which is probably the one part of the course I was familiar with. I receive RSS feeds for the YPS blog and 'Unshelved' straight to my email address. The RSS feeds are a great idea as they allow you to keep track of new entries on blogs or sites you are interested in but without having to go and check the site constantly. Updates are there in your mail box, you can read and deal with it straight away. It all sounds great doesn't it.
Then came this week's assignment, to go and subscribe to a number of feeds and add them to your google reader account. To help, you could use google blog search to look for blogs on topics you were interested in. I used it to look for blogs about books, and found the Guardian Book Blog http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog, I have looked at books before on the Guardian site, especially for children's books, so my list was started.
I changed track and went looking for the movie show (ABC TV with David & Margaret), I had been on their webpage recently looking at the movies featured on the final program for 2010. I found they didn't have a blog, but found a link for the Australian Screen website, http://aso.gov.au, linked to the National Film & Sound Archive which is located in Canberra. Great place to visit with fascinating exhibits to see. While I was on the ABC website, I looked up Classic FM, maybe they had a blog I could subscribe to. I listen to them daily, no blog, they only 'tweet'. But on further searching I found, http://blogs.radionational.net.au/bookshow/
the Book show blog, so I added that to the list and also found, http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/, it looks interesting, so added that to the list.
Then I thought about the other TV station (in my small universe there are only two TV stations), SBS, and how much I enjoy their food programs, so this time I went to the SBS website and I found their food blog, lots of yummy recipes, http://www.sbs.com.au/food/ - check it out. While I was on SBS, I added World news Australia, as they have a wide range of current affairs, http://www.sbs.com.au/blogindex.
I had also heard about a website which sounded interesting, the Free Word Centre, thought I would check this out also, http://www.freewordonline.com/, and so added it to the list.
I think you can begin to understand my choice of title for this blog, Too Many Choices, and there are still so many sites to visit out there and even though I am now receiving the daily feeds, I still have to find time to read them!!
Maybe this is why, I have tried to keep the internet at a distance, it can become all-consuming.
Thats one reason I don't like them in my e-mail or browser. I like having to make to effort to view them.
ReplyDeleteI use google homepage to display my feeds, and I can just run my eye over the post headings to see what catches my eye
I used the RSS feed from FESA when the bushfires were down Lake Clifton to keep up to date on its progress, really useful and I will continue to use this service. (Now I know what the orange box is on these websites!)
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