Things 10 & 11: RSS Feeds & Blogs

As stated in the VU 23 Things blog posting for RSS feeds & blogs, Digg is a bit geeky and American centric. However, it is a useful place to start if you're confused by the vastness of the blogosphere by giving the option to search by subject, popularity, etc. Although it was fairly simple to add subscriptions to my Google Reader account, I wasn't able to get any search alerts feeds from EBSCO added, so perhaps this needs a bit more work on my part? Not sure if other people had more success with this or other database feeds?

I like the concept of Technorati but again found it a bit too American centric and had to do a lot of searching before I found any "libraryish" blogs that appealed to me.

I actually found it more useful to go to a site that I'm already familiar with: Internet Resources Newsletter This e-journal is produced on a monthly basis by staff at Heriot-Watt University Library in Edinburgh (Scotland) and it's always chock full of interesting stuff that might appeal to academics, students and more particularly library staff - well worth adding to your RSS feed reader. Each issue features a whole host of useful links and reviews, and includes a section called "Blogorama" - this section highlights "selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items" and this is where I found some of the library blogs listed on the right.

This has been the most challenging group of Things tasks to complete, but I can see that the ability to aggregate feeds using a reader makes keeping up-to-date much easier, so I will persevere. I can highly recommend Obnoxious Librarian from Hades - and you have to admit we all have days when we wish some of our users to... well, Hades!