Tuesday, December 18, 2007

#13, #14 - RSS

Thank goodness Kathleen told me about Bloglines ages ago. It has saved me lots of time over the past year. I have 34 feeds in my Bloglines aggregator at present. Most of the blog feeds are book and library related, with my favourite being Bookninja "The deadliest book site on the web". Head ninja George Murray is a Toronto-based (Newfoundland-leaning?) writer with a wickedly biting sense of humour (what's that word - modant? Yes "wicked and caustic" sez the dictionary). George has daily gleanings from the web about books, introduced with a witty blurb. It is a disappointing day when Bookninja doesn't appear with new stuff in Bloglines.

But Bloglines is especially useful for keeping track of blogs which have only occasional postings. Local Journal writers Todd Babiak (culture) and Sandra Sperounes both blog sporadically via the Journal, so the RSS aggregator is quite handy for them.

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