Sunday, March 29, 2009

Week 4 - RSS & Feedreaders

As I had no idea about RSS feeds I was very interested in seeing how they worked. I signed up for both Google Reader and Bloglines. In google reader I set up the library feeds plus a few of my own, although I did have trouble with the ALIA one, I just could not get it to work. Also the SLV did not work as well but I was able to add some of their suggested feeds.

I liked the fact that I could follow all my existing blogs via the setting up page (under misc.) I have placed all my feeds under different folders so that I can group all my related subjects together. I also found it easier to view in the list area rather than the expanded view.

I then had a look in my account and went to igoogle. I changed themes a few times and added a few gadgets. I feel you have to be careful not to get carried away and put to much "stuff" here.

I returned to my account and signed up for Picasa, just played around here.

I only added one feed to Bloglines as I prefer Google Reader, I just wanted to compare the two.

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