I've experimented with RSS readers in the past as ways to help me more easily keep up with information. I've done it a couple of ways in the past: as part of an e-mail account and through a My Yahoo! page. The e-mail account method was convenient in letting me know at a glance when something was new, but I was not good about taking time to go the folder to seek the information. As a result, news collected and remained unread.
I'm very happy with the My Yahoo! method. I keep a Yahoo mail account exclusively for discussion lists to which I subscribe. By adding feeds to My Yahoo! site, I can see at a glance what articles have been added to the sites I monitor -- primarily those of the Wichita Eagle, Library Journal and our own library. I've also subscribed to this blog just to see how that looks. What I like about this method is that I can see the headlines at a glance. If I'm interested in them, I'm a quick link from details. If I'm not intrigued, they simply disappear as new content is added. If I think I've missed something or I want to go back to refer to it, a quick click on the feed title puts my right to the page for more information.
For the purpose of this week's exercise, I selected Google Reader. I watched the Bloglines videos but decided that I liked the simplicity of Google Reader better. I'm particularly interested in being able to watch the trend information about messages sent, read, etc. In honesty, though, I'll probably use this account only for the duration of this training program and then let it go. I'm sorry that My Yahoo! wasn't included in this week's lesson. I think many people would find its functionality preferable to these other options. I'm glad our library offers that option for our feeds, as well as the xml, Google and Blogline options.
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