Thing #3 My foray into RSS feeds

I have spent way too much time learning about RSS feeds because I was assigned to present this new Web 2.o feature to the reference staff at our recent e-resource training session. Talk about the blind leading the blind! I am now glad that I was given this assignment, because I do feel that I now understand what it is and most importantly how the feeds work. The video presented by Common Craft (http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
is an easily understood explanation of what RSS is and how it works.

I found an excellent tutorial on signing up for Bloglines at:
http://preetamrai.com/weblog/archives/2005/04/25/bloglines-how-to-keep-track-of-hundreds-of-blogs-and-some-news-and-some-podcasts-and-some-flickrs-photos-etc-etc/
This blog presents step by step instructions on registering for an account and then gives information on how to find and subscribe to RSS feeds.

I found two good sources of library info at:
http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

http://wikis.ala.org/readwriteconnect/index.php/ALA_RSS_feeds

After all of my extra work, I now feel much more confident in explaining this concept to our patrons.