Optional adventure

Okay well I'm game, even though the RSS feeds frustrated me to tears, I decided I'm up to the challenge. Surprisingly I found this task to be EASIER than the first part. I attached a 'quotes' feed onto my blog as easy as 1,2,3. I did check to make sure it was there, and I think if you look on the left hand side of the screen, there should be 5 people names with links to quotes.

YAY for Kylie!!!!

I also have had a little squiz at some other peoples blogs, and have realised, much to my relief, I am not the only person that was tearing my hair out. I also am still amazed how we are all doing the same task and how every ones blogs are so different. Not just the layout, but even what we've written and how we attacked each new task. Nice to see so much variety within the library staff :)

RSS

Well all, I officially HATE rss feeds. I struggled the whole way through this weeks task. First I tried to get on the OPAL training to sign up for the feed, and couldn't even find what I was supposed to click on. I have finally muddled y way through everything and have 5 RSS feeds on my bloglines page. I chose a variety of different subjects and just pick a few that interested me. Cooking, Dilbert, OPAL, quotes of the day, and some sort of news feed were my selections.

I can see these RSS feeds becoming more and more popular, and to be honest when I first watched the tutorial, I was very impressed. I'll see how I go as to if I use it n the future. I have put a recipe feed on there, so maybe I will keep checking in just for some inspiration on what to have for dinner.

This would however be a great tool for the library, we could have feeds linked right onto the home page of our catalogue for upcoming books, reviews and pretty much anything our patrons would ever need. I also think it would be better used on a library page because, patrons don't have to set anything up themselves.