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This has probably been the most difficult thing for me to do so far... finding the blogs was perhaps the most challenging part of the exercise but once I got into it there was no stopping me...I could have gone on and on... enough's enough
Here are the feeds I added:
The obligatory Powerhouse Museum's picture of the day blog- which I really liked.
One for my favourite hobby which is scrapbooking, this blog updates me on the new products that are available.
The next one I added was for work and has easy crafts on it that I may be able to utilise for my Storytime activities- I'm always on the lookout for new ideas...
I then tried to add the Sydney Morning Herald 'Undercover' blog but had some difficulty- it eventually went through but had the whole entertainment blogs not just the one I had picked.
I added a Vietnamese cookery blog as I love the food- Yum...
Even though I read a lot about RSS I did not think that I really understood what I was doing or why I was doing it...I guess I'm Real Simple. Anyway I decided to delve further into this subject and found quite a good article...except for the technical bits I began to understand a bit more- The article is called " What is RSS and how it can serve libraries?" by Zeki Celikbas.
I then went looking for libraries that provided RSS feeds to their clients. I was impressed by the Minneapolis Public Library which provided RSS feeds under the following categories:
New items in the Catalog
What's new at the Minneapolis Public Library
What's new in the List
Today at the Minneapolis Public Library
Live Bookmarks in Mozilla
I feel this site is really worth looking at and shows some of the ways RSS can be used effectively in public libraries.
I have been trying to add a feed to my blog but have not been successful so far... I will keep trying...
"Our best thoughts come from others" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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