RSS Feeds

I like the RSS feeds I set up in Google Reader. I already had an account- (a friend of mine in California insists that Google Mail is the best place to chat live but then is never online when I am) so am used to the setup. I think it is ideal for keeping up with journal and book new content. I’ve set up a few book related feeds- I especially like reading publishing news from various websites (Bookseller, Abe and Alibris) and here I can get most of the new stuff in one place. Most of the info is in “small bite sized chunks”. The news feeds are good but the papers I really like to keep up with (the local ones in NC and TN where my family live) don’t have feeds every day. I’ve still been going to their main websites as usual.

Blogs

I know I’m behind in posting my responses. I have been reading/viewing the suggested resources and trying things out but haven’t had time to report…very bad. Blogging is good as long as you have the time to organize your thoughts and type- something I have lacked the last week or two. The interface here is very easy to use. It’s very much like the comment option in the VLE I used for my online course- except there you couldn’t add media. My daughter has a Photoblog at

I like to check it frequently for new content and I can see that keeping up with a blog where you are interested with what’s new is great- as long as the blogger has time to make the entries! Something I often lack sadly.

Web 2.0 Day

Okay here’s the first blog. I’m very glad that we get to explore all this great stuff during work. It saves trying to get computer time at home. It’s also great that this type of training was started in Charlotte ,NC- very close to where I grew up-been there many times- but it kind of makes me homesick.  And I’ve just noticed I can spell check before I send this- that’s very useful for me as the NC schools weren’t that great at teaching me to spell. Ta

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