Now I’m on Thing 9 of the library’s 23 Things. If I do them all, I get an MP3 player!
For Thing 9, I’m supposed to add some RSS feeds to my bloglines account and blog about it.
I’m warming up to Bloglines. This try, I discovered the “Add” button, which makes it easier to add feeds.
The blogs I like best seem to all be found as links on my friend Akelda the Gleeful’s blog. She has some great links!
That’s how I recommend finding feeds. Start with a blog that you like, then look at the links they link to, and so on…. Real networking–because if you were to graph the links, you’d have an intricate network.
Today, I read all of Akelda’s “Children’s Books That Never Were”. Sooooo funny! Indeed, I don’t think that Marjorie Flack could have gotten Angus Lost published if the original idea was to present Angus as a platypus. So good she got direction…. 🙂
Bloglines also let me know about a bunch of knitting blogs–I’m looking forward to looking those over, too. Bloglines did NOT have a set of Kidlit blogs–so I’m delighted that Akelda has plenty of links to those.
I’m starting to like RSS feeds. It’s not as simple as messages in your e-mail inbox. I tend to prefer that–and some of my Sonderbooks subscribers do too, I can tell. However, once you have a place to go to see what’s new, it is a convenient form…. It’s probably better to keep the list from getting too long, so you can keep track of the ones you really follow.