RSS Feeds

This week I set up a bloglines account and added the following RSS feeds:

Powerhouse Museum, photo of the day (as instructed)
Christchurch City Libraries new fiction weekly listing ('cos I used to work there)
Australian Education (doing TAFE training and assessment course)
Christchurch Press local news (my home town)

I was running out of inspiration for my last two so selected from bloglines quick picks.
Publishers Weekly best sellers news
NYT books

What do I like about RSS feeds? Well, great way to keep informed and up to date if you are interested in a particular area or a long way from home!

Although I can see that they could become a time trap or a procrastination tool and I wouldn't want to subscribe to any more than say 10 RSS feeds at once. That's just me and I am a bit of a time freak.

I will be particularly interested to watch the Christchurch City Libraries feed (they have others but I just chose the new fiction listing) as this could be a good example of what libraries can achieve with RSS feeds. Similar maybe to a SDI service and could be broken down into genres or non-fiction subjects as well. Interesting....

Here comes everybody

Just finished reading Clay Shirky's "Here comes everybody" and would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in social technology. Great examples and very readable.

Worked it out

Week 3 of the Library 2.0 online program and I worked out how to add a "gadget" to my blog layout so I could more appropriatly credit the photo I found on flickr.

Not sure about attributing images. I found this wonderful photo on flickr (petra jane's photostream) and couldn't figure out how to attach a caption acknowledging the source so the best I could do was to put a statement in the description field under the title of my blog. The photo was on flickr as "some rights reserved" which seems to include attributing it as specified by the creator. I couldn't find any specifications so does that mean I don't have to attribute it at all? Help, I just want to do the right thing!