As librarians dealing every day with rapidly changing technology, it's imperative to stay informed, but what we have little of is extra time to keep up with our reading. RSS feeds collected through an aggregator like Bloglines help with that task by reducing the time spent hunting for relevant information. In one place, we can have gathered together articles from sources we've selected and can choose at a glance which individual articles we want to read or scan. It's also quick and easy to experiment with new feeds, giving one or two a try to see if they're useful or interesting enough to us to keep up with them.
A favorite feed of mine is BBC News Technology World Edition. There are a number of posts I skip over because they deal with strictly British telecom and credit issues, but it keeps me informed of what's going on the world scene for technology.
Our library's website uses feeds to provide a Headline News page, using feeds from CNN and the Fond du Lac Reporter, but that's not something I did for the site. It was done by a librarian at our system headquarters. So I wanted to try one of those services that lets you mix your own feeds, creating one with Wisconsin news stories from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Green Bay Press-Gazette. (I would have added my own hometown paper for sentimental reasons, but it's a small paper without RSS feed.) I let Blogger do the work adding it to the sidebar of this blog, but I will try inserting the code below as well.
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