#5b More about RSS

O.K. loved the ability to add the bookmarklet to my Firefox toolbar. Also in this exercise went back to my ACRL feed in Bloglines and changed it from podcasts to news. I'm unclear how to delete posts once you've read them. I shall inquire when I have the time.

#5 a. RSS feeds and Bloglines

It was really easy to set up the Bloglines account. I really didn't understand RSS feeds until this exercise. Now instead of going to each of my favorite news sites, I just have to log into the Bloglines account.
I could see how the RSS feeds might be a way to share new administrative information with managers and supervisors. I'd have to explore this more before seeing if it was a viable choice. There would have to be protocols set up to make it effective.
I think RSS feeds have a lot of potential for library services. I'll be interested to see what other public service folks think.

#4-Flickr

mangia
Originally uploaded by katemcgirr

This is the real Bur-reau.Kat. She begrudgingly posed for this photo this weekend. I set up the flickr account. It was a little cumbersome. The upload from my computer was easy. Flickr let me identify this blog, which I set up, then I got lost and had to wander around the site to finally find out how to "download" the file back to the blog. I do like the customized settings for posting to the blog.
This is mangia, our 13 year old tortie mix. She is very aptly named which you could tell if she'd just stand up from that snuggle ball.

# 3 - Blog Search Exercise

Well, technorati, was too techno-ratty for me on a Friday afternoon. I looked at them all. Enjoyed some stuff I found on peregrine falcons on Blog.ask.com. It lead me to a video of a falcon with a camera on its back as it did one of the famous dives at an ungodly speed. Found that three UC library blogs on Academic Libraries- Blogging through LisZen. Unfortunately, the only UC links that worked were Berkeley's Gov. Pubs blog; and Berkeley's California Policy Index blog.

# 2-Blogging Addendum

In my first blog I talked about the great ACRL-WSS session I attended at ALA in Washington. I did get in touch with Joan Lippincott from CNI, who passed on the link to her presentation on Net Gen attributes. Here's the link to her presentation and the other presenters at the "Once upon a FURL..."