Hurrah! I've basically completed week two now. My public blogline account is http://www.bloglines.com/blog/escalating-entropy.
I like having access to only the information and articles that I personally want to read from the net, which this RSS system provides. In this way you can keep up with that special part of the world which interests you. However, it also seems to have a limited value - there would only be a certain amount of feeds that you would have the time to read each day.
For example, it will enable me to keep up with the current event which interests me most, world politics. I will be able to glean more news about international politics from RSS than any local newspaper would be able to provide. It also enables me to avoid sorting through various online international newspapers for information. Again, however, there is only so much I will be able to read in a day, especially considering that I have 19 feeds.
Libraries would be able to use RSS primarily for the purpose of keeping up with developments in libraries in other countries. In this way we would be able to gather new ideas about how to expand the horizons of the various libraries in Manukau - making them more accessible to the public, raising their appeal in the public eye, and so on. Library staff will also be able to keep in touch with current developments in technology, science, politics, literature, art and all other fields so as to improve their knowledge of these subjects.
Knowledge, after all, is the very essence of a library.
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Yay for overcoming obstacles. I think RSS is useful for being able to keep track of those sites you feel obligated to keep track off (like sites about developments in digital library services .. if you're a digital librarian...) without having to spend a heap of time visiting each on individually.
I can feel virtuous because I have RSS feeds, and I can spend 5 minutes skim reading the headlines and that's about all...
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