Friday, January 18, 2008

Where's My Map??? I'm a foreigner in the land of RSS and Bloglines!

Ok, while I understand the concept of RSS and Bloglines I'm finding the actual bloglines site very confusing! When I signed up I scrolled through the "quick" search and subscribed to a whole bunch of things that interested me with supposedly one click of my mouse button. I was quite excited with some of the things I found (Dilbert comics, Travel news, Cats, iTunes top 25 songs, Entertainment news, etc.). I was very happy that with "one click" I would have my finger on the pulse of internet land and all that was in it. I was feeling so in touch with the world! Well, it took me about 15 - 20 minutes to pick out my selections, only when I hit that infamous one click it said there was a problem with the database and to try again... so I did try again... and again... with the same problem... I ended up taking some of the URL's I liked and putting them into the "search for feeds" subscribing that way but it took a lot longer than I had anticipated. I did however figure out (all by myself!) how to subscribe to the Discover 2.0 blog and two blogs of the participants in this program. So even though it was a tad confusing at first and a bit inconvienent I think with a bit more playing I will get the hang of this unit. I do love how everything is so organized in the newsfeed section of bloglines and with a bit of scrolling you can quickly look at your feeds and if a headline interests you at that moment you can read it. It's a great way to organize what could be an overwhelming load of information.

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