What can I say about Bloglines except yummm!
RSS Feeds are like an information smoothie; you put in the raw web pages (with their flashing ads and diversionary tactics) - grind them up - extract the usable content - and present it in a clean format that saves you valuable search time.
They're faster than using a browser for surfing - easier to browse than the unfiltered internet - and personalized for the user (with options for blogging about news items or easy email forwarding for sharing news items with friends.)
The interface resembles a table of contents - and that's essentially what it is; the book in this case being a Frankenstein monster of my own informational needs ;)
My recipe for madness?
Take a healthy dose of library science, add some liberally slanted news, a dash of techie, some establishment propaganda (keep your enemies close - I'm looking at you CNN), a touch of finance news, and voila!!!
1. Queens Library Learning 2.0
2. batgirl was a librarian
3. The Shifted Librarian
4. Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week
5. NYT Book Review
6. Salon
7. Wired Top Stories
8. Lifehacker
9. CNN.com
10. Reuters: Top News
11. Guardian Unlimited home Guardian Unlimited
12. BBC News News Front Page World Edition
13. WSJ.com: Markets
enjoy!
Bloglines was a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Users could subscribe to the syndicated feeds for free using a web browser. Bloglines offered an application programming interface that maintainers of web sites could use to write software to read feeds, search its database of feed entries, and ping the service when a website was updated. Bloglines became unavailable in early 2015. (credit - Wikipedia)
ReplyDeleteAlso - use these alternatives for that RSS feed - except in 2024... Here are six RSS Feed Readers or Aggregate Apps:
ReplyDeleteRSS Feed Reader Chrome Extension by Feeder.co
Feedly
Feeder
NewsBlur
Inoreader
Feedreader Online