Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Library Stuff posts several feeds

Library Stuff has, by far, the most feeds. In the last 48 hours there were twenty of them, while Librarian.net had one, the Shifted Librarian only four. The single post on Librarian.net was quite interesting. It linked to the Open Library Project, a demo website started by multiple people, mainly Aaron Swartz. This would be an internet library, literally providing (ideally), every book to every person. It seems to encourage the participation of the public, with them creating and governing its content. This almost sounds like a blog, an interactive community where people can have their say in what happens and what decisions are made (concerning the library).
Other issues and topics covered in the blogs were libraries and gaming, internet filters and pornography, and expired domain names.
After having subscribed to these three blogs, I will probably only continue with Library Stuff, simply for its wealth of information. Bloglines is simple to use, for all of the most recent feeds pop up right after you sign in, and you can view older ones.
Concerning RSS, I just subscribed to feeds from NPR, the Washington Post, and BBC News. I'm not sure how long I'll stick with this. I'll try it out versus just going to the websites. RSS seems like it may be more convenient for someone who only reads through certain news topics. I tend to look around at almost everything, so RSS may not save me much time (as far as the major news sites go).

No comments: