RSS Feeds and Readers

I've always understood the idea behind RSS and Feed Readers like Bloglines, but I never got to play around with the tools until today.

Bloglines was surprisingly fast and easy, although it did take a little while for me to copy/paste the RSS feeds into Bloglines and get them saved. It also took me a little while to figure out that I could create different folders for my various feeds. One such folder I created linked to all the Web 2.0 Blogs created and maintained by North Carolina government librarians as part of this Web 2.0 Brown Bag Lunch. You can my RSS feeds by clicking here:

http://www.bloglines.com/public/digitizationdiva

Next, I played with creating a feed for a search ("State Library" "North Carolina") on Feedster. I have to say, I wasn't too impressed with the search results that I got through Feedster, so I'm not sure how often I'll check this feed.

I also added a tag feed from Flickr. All newly created images that are tagged with "statelibraryofnorthcarolina" will now pop up in my Bloglines account.

Finally, I added a podcast feed from the Department of Cultural Resources' podcast site. Unfortunately the URL in their feed was incorrect and was directing users to: http://www.ncculture.com/podcast.htm rather than their correct URL which is: http://www.ncculture.com/podcast.asp

Oh well... Except for this one slight technical difficulty, all went smooth!!

Yay for RSS!!!