This week's Discovery Exercises promised to "make life 'Really Simple' with RSS and a Newsreader." Discovery exercise numero uno suggested that I watch another video from commoncraft, "RSS in Plain English." This video is another great one, and I love the style/format of these "in Plain English" videos.
Although I have known about RSS for a while now, I never seriously considered signing up for an account. I just didn't think I visited enough sites to warrant one; however, after creating a Google Reader account (Discovery Exercise #2 - check) and subscribing to some feeds (Discovery Exercise #3 - check), I quickly began to realize that I visit WAY more websites than I realized. At first, I just added news and a few sites I visit for fun or giggles. Next, I thought that I should probably include a few library/librarian related blogs, since I have been actively attempting to add more of such sites to my daily Internet rounds since being admitted to the SLIS. Before I realized it, I had tons of feeds! That's when I started to wonder just how much time I had been wasting visiting these sites, especially on days when there was nothing new to see. This is going to save much time and energy. Then again, I added quite a few new sites, ones that I had not been visiting. Now I wonder if I will be saving time by not wondering out to all of my usual sites one by one, or if I have made my site reading more time consuming by adding new sites. Hmm...I guess only time will tell. I can always delete a few.
I promised myself last posting that my next posting would be shorter, so I think I'll keep that promise...I have some feeds to read anyway!
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