At the beginning of the semester I started subscribing to RSS feeds to my Google account. Anytime Joan or any other professor would mention an important resource, I would get hooked up with the RSS feed of that person.
I love getting RSS feeds. It makes it so much easier to gather news or read new posts from my favorite blogs. I literally could spend hours going through all the news that comes in through my Google reader.
That brings me to an important point: RSS feeds are incredibly overwhelming! Every time I log in and check (at least once a day) I have over 1000 new things I could look at. Where to start? I end up having to weed through the information and just pull topics from things I like. My favorite librarian one is librarian.net. It has a ton of cool articles about whats going on in the library world, and it has some really interesting posts. I like the way that all of the RSS feeds link to the website, and my favorite thing to do is read everyone's comments to the thing that's been posted.
But seriously. I've spent HOURS sifting through RSS feeds. I guess that could be because not all of my feeds are library-related...some are just humor...
Google Reader makes organizing your RSS feeds super easy, and there's ways to star the things your really liked, etc. All in all, I'm kind of a RSS addict at this point...thank goodness my job lets me sit in front of a computer most of the day...
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