#5 Feeding the Monster

I have never used RSS readers or feeders as i'm not much of a farmer. I do like how it updates and keeps all the new content readily available for me, but sometimes i don't have the time to even check that. So i may end up having alot of stored up new content to skim over regardless of what site i visit. The only benefit i can see is if the RSS keeps your content past the experation date of the site that hosts it. i know with come news articles as soon as it's old it's archived or removed to make room for new content. This would save the trouble of searching archived material. The three i subscribed to was Dilbert, Lio, and Anandtech.com. I may use it more if i find or read other sites for information. I do also like how they have a mobile way of sending out feeds so that people can get there information on the run. I believe the biggest benefit the library would have about using RSS feeds is maybe in support to library events. Examples being Childrens story time and teen events. This way people don't have to dig for events but can have what events they want to attend sent to them. Or maybe being used as a "new" book list update once a week for those that want to know whats hitting out shelves on what days and want to reserve a copy before it does. All in all i'm pleased with learning about them just a little even if i don't pursue the use of them in the future.

Step 3... Not much to see.

It seems that they missed a couple things about the IM services. As with msn you can add yahoo and i think one or two other IM addresses to it and talk accross to each other. Trillian i have used in the past and it works rather well. Another service i'm sad to see they left out was IRC chat. Which may not be "mainstream" popular but it is still used alot. I don't plan on using meebo or google chat as i don't really need or care to try and incorperate another chat program to my ensemble of chat usage. I'm perfectly happy using good ole msn chat if i really need it. As with most people if they want to get ahold of me and talk, they created this cool invention called a cell phone which does not require me to be stationary. i can also use msn chat on my cell phone to talk to those that don't text. Again kinda suprising they didn't add text messaging to the list of instant chat that is widely used today. I know it's not a on-line service but hey why IM when you can text.

Blog R done

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/lio/2008/03/14/index.html

Been reading and enjoying the comic lio. This is a link to one of the comic stripes but should get you to see or view a couple others. It's very simple and pleasant and leaves it open to the imagination. Hopefully the enjoyment can be shared by more knowing it has another location to draw people into it.

First Post

This is the first post which means it won't have much to do about anything but the first post. This is intended to relfect the use of a blog for the 2.0 training we are following. Over time this blog will be used to track information inputed into it for the duration of the 2.0 tarining.