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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Thing 30: More Ways to Use RSS and Delicious

It was fun to look at my Google Reader and try out some new feeds. I don't have too many feeds left because if there were any that I was any feed I was really backed up on; I just dropped so I feel like filtering tools can be a great help especially if you are interested in reading blogs but only want to read the postings that interest you. I also looked at Traffic RSS feeds and added on from Denver with is where I am moving to. So, that will be fun to use when I live there. Finally, I looked at Spreed which was a really fun way to gain the news but I don't think I will be using it on a regular basis. Though I would like to be a speed reader even though I don't think that will happen. So, finally, I feel there is a lot out there to read and listen to; but only do as much as your able. Like me; some of these feed are fun to look at but a drag when I have to do use it every day.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Thing 3: RSS

Of all the things, that I have learned, and just let me remind you I am on thing 3 and so far all the things beside thing 2 have been really interesting; however RSS feeds has been the most interesting and exciting Thing so far. I feel like I have finally learned something that I can implement throughout my life. The hardest part being finding all the RSS feeds I want to add and realizing that there has to be a limit to how much I can or should want to add, because really I can only read so much a day. However, besides all that I found setting up an aggregator to be relatively easy. I set up an aggregator through Google Reader, which I was happy that I did, as I was already familiar with how Google is set up. Meaning that I have used Google calendar extensively and because my blog is also through Google I thought in the end that it would be easier having all these items in the same location so to speak.

What I love about Google Reader, which is really strong words for a program that I only learned about yesterday, is that right away it asked showed me different bundles of RSS feeds that I could belong to. For example, they have the bundle called FUN, which included You Tube Most Viewed, Quotes of the Day, The Onion, and three others. And even thought I deleted the rest of what was in that bundle including You Tube because all the main videos were of a guy being slashed by another skater during a hockey game and if that is the kind of videos You Tube viewers like then I don't think I want to know what they like every day. However, I am getting off topic Google also had different bundles like News and Sports, which again I did not subscribe to but liked that I had the chance to. Also, the next RSS feed it tried to get me to subscribe to was The Form which I thought was really cool and then I wondered how they knew I wanted to subscribe to The Form; oh well. Adding different blogs was made easy and finally making my Google Reader all neat and organized by putting them into subfolders made me realize that Google Reader Rocks and that I need to find a lot more RSS feeds.