RSS Feeds

Carefully considering all the technologies we've reviewed this term, my ‘favourite' tools for libraries include the Blog and the RSS feed.

In reading more in depth about RSS Feeds this week, I gained a greater appreciation for the technology that was created. It seems like this fairly simple technology has changed the way that people today are accessing the internet. Instead of having to seek out web pages for new and updated content this is brought to users with very little effort of their part, except for getting the aggregator and subscribing to the feed. 

I've had limited experience with RSS feeds thus far, but first stumbled upon them last fall during my first term in MLIS, through another classmate who was known to be very keen on the cutting edge of library news. I definitely saw the benefits of having software that brings together all of my favourite websites...it certainly makes surfing the net more efficient, especially for someone who reads various newssites frequently.

I had heard of RSS technology before this class but I had never taken advantage of it, mainly because I figured that I didn't read enough blogs or websites to warrant the use of it, and/or the websites I were reading were not using RSS.  Once I get proper, steady Internet access again (Saturday! HUZZAH!), I'll start taking full advantage of it!