Thing 4: RSS and Newsreaders

I have always had a trouble limiting my time reading the news. When the Internet first appeared and I had an old slow dial-up connections I would spend 6-8 hours on the weekend reading papers - international ones. News addiction? Maybe. I like to know what other people are thinking and experiencing in other parts of the world.

RSS and newsreaders just make things worse for me. Now I love to spend 6-8 hours a day just reading . . . but I can't. So I have avoided them until this project came along. It took me days to get through this thing, because I kept exploring more and more.

I did use both Bloglines' search tool and Google's. I liked Google's "advanced" search feature best for searching, and Bloglines for displaying my selected feeds.

The one thing I found disconcerting was that the link provided for looking at at this sites for library blogs worldwide which went 'libdex' had one dead link after another. The first three blogs I selected on the list all were dead. I did not try a 4th. I have learned in the past that when I find three dead links on a site, there are probably a good many more and the site is not being updated. I do not return. You will do better using one of the search engines.

I have not added RSS feeders to this blog. I think they distract viewers and lead them away from the blog. I think using a Twitter account where I can add the news stories and other links related to me blog's theme is a better option. so unless an RSS feed is focused completely to my blog's subject, I will not add it.